HBR's 10 Must Reads on Leadership Lessons from Sports (featuring interviews with Sir Alex Ferguson Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Andre Agassi)

Leadership and management lessons from the sports world.The world's elite athletes and coaches achieve high performance through inspiring leadership mental toughness and direction-setting strategic choices. Harvard Business Review has talked to many of these high performers throughout the years to learn how their success translates to the world of business.If you read nothing else on management lessons from the world of sports read these 10 articles by athletes coaches and leadership experts. We've combed through our archive and selected the articles that will best help you drive performance.This book will inspire you to:Improve on your weaknesses not just your strengthsTake care of your body for sustained mental performanceIncrease your confidence and manage your energy before an important eventTurn a struggling team aroundUnderstand the limits of performance metricsFocus on long-term goals to overcome setbacksUnderstand where the analogy of sports and business doesn't workThis collection of articles includes Ferguson's Formula by Anita Elberse with Sir Alex Ferguson; Life's Work: An Interview with Greg Louganis; The Making of a Corporate Athlete by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz; The Tough Work of Turning a Team Around by Bill Parcells; How an Olympic Gold Medalist Learned to Perform Under Pressure: An Interview with Alex Gregory; Mental Preparation Secrets of Top Athletes Entertainers and Surgeons an interview with Daniel McGinn by Sarah Green Carmichael; SoulCycle's CEO on Sustaining Growth in a Faddish Industry by Melanie Whelan; Life's Work: An Interview with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar; Major League Innovation by Scott D. Anthony; Looking Past Performance in Your Star Talent by Mark de Rond Adrian Moorhouse and Matt Rogan; Life's Work: An Interview with Mikhail Baryshnikov; How the Best of the Best Get Better and Better by Graham Jones; Life's Work: An Interview with Joe Girardi; Why There Is an I in Team by Mark de Rond; Life's Work: An Interview with Andre Agassi; and Why Sports Are a Terrible Metaphor for Business by Bill Taylor.