How to develop high performance in any organization using the principles that drive success in sports coaching.
In many respects business organisations reflect team sports. They both require people to operate in complex and highly competitive environments. Both environments require people not only to be the best they can be individually, but to cooperate closely over time to secure long term winning performance. In sport coaches are intimately involved in developing athletes, squads and teams and bring an impressive array of technology and wide ranging expertise to bear on all aspects of high performance development. There is much that business, especially leaders, can learn from coaches and sport. Leading High Performance takes those elements of sports coaching that are relevant to business and shows how the principles of coaching, sports science, training and even psychology offer tremendous opportunities for achieving high performance in all organisations. It looks at ways in which high performance is achieved in sport and describes, using examples, how this approach develops individuals, encouraging them towards high performance. It then analyses the most relevant ideas and techniques, converting them into easily applicable business models and tools.
Murray Eldridge is a businessman with 40 years' experience of international industry where he has run a variety of international companies in the shipping, oil&gas, water and telecoms industries. He also lectures on Leadership and Strategy and related subjects. Murray is a member of several professional bodies, a Chartered Director of the Institute of Directors and holds an MBA. He is a qualified, practising rowing coach and a keen sailor.
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"The author blends 40 years of international business experience with his knowledge of sports coaching. In doing so he brings new and fascinating insights to creating high performance environments. His examination of why most organisations remain average is similarly fascinating. While this book initially draws on the world of sport and coaching it is without doubt focused on business. In showing how any organisation can become a high performance one he provides genuinely new concepts and models that can be applied to any business. This book is essential reading for any leader or aspiring leader seeking to avoid 'average' and wishing to create the high performance organisation."Andy Kerswill
Andy is the Director of Engineering at British Airways There are lots of books out there about lessons from sport or other domains for organizational leadership. What lends this one credibility is that the author has decades of experience as both business leader and sports coach. This is the most in-depth comparison you'll find between how sports coaches get results out of their teams, and the status quo that we see today inside most corporate and public organizations. Bottom line: there is plenty of opportunity for organizational leaders to foster substantially higher engagement and performance with their people by adopting some practices from sports coaching.Karen Lindquist Director Organizational Development Solutions Management Centre Europe
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
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978-1-78059-214-5 (9781780592145)
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Murray Eldridge is a business consultant with 40 years' experience of international industry. He has worked in and run a variety of international companies in the shipping, oil & gas, water and telecoms industries including Smit International, BT Marine Ltd and Cable & Wireless.
