Row the boat : a never-give-up approach to lead with enthusiasm and optimism to improve your team and culture / Jon Gordon, P.J. Fleck.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gordon, Jon, 1971- author.

Fleck, P. J., 1980- author.

Series:

Jon Gordon

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Leadership.

Perseverance (Ethics).

Fleck, P. J., 1980-.

Fleck, P. J.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (131 pages)

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley, [2021]

Summary:

"I had followed PJ Fleck's coaching career for years since he built the Western Michigan University (WMU) football team into a national powerhouse. I always admired his positive energy and passion and could tell he was a great culture builder and leader. I also had heard stories about him from Brad Black whose company HumanEx performed the talent search and evaluation of head coaching candidates for WMU. Brad recommended to the leaders of WMU that they hire PJ Fleck despite his lack of qualifications, lack of head coaching experience and unimpressive resume. Brad's assessment tools, used to evaluate people and predictive leadership performance, told him that PJ would shine as a head coach and build a winning culture and team and that's exactly what happened. After proving himself as a successful head coach at Western Michigan taking a program from 1-11 to 13-1 during his four years, PJ Fleck was hired as the head coach of the University of Minnesota football team during a tumultuous time. Once again PJ turned around a program in need of a cultural change (academically, athletically, socially) and built a winning culture on and off the field and team that won 11 games for the first time since 1904, accomplished numerous academic records and made a program more about serving and giving than just winning games. After the season I invited PJ to be on my podcast and one of the questions I asked him was how he got into coaching. After the podcast I asked him to tell me more about his journey. The story he told me was more than a story about how he got into coaching. It was about the man himself and what led him to become the kind of coach he is."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1 The Man Behind the Boat

The Hard Way

Make the Most of Your Opportunities

Hard Work, Opportunity, and Fate

Chapter 2 Questions

Chapter 3 The Origin of Row the Boat

Pain and Purpose

Row the Boat

An Opportunity to Row the Boat

Chapter 4 The Philosophy of Row the Boat

Future

Present

Past

Chapter 5 Rowing the Boat at WMU

A Difficult Task

The Big Dig

Pouring the Foundation

Creating Our Framework

The Windows Year

Chapter 6 The Three Key Components of Row the Boat

The Oar

The Boat

The Compass

Chapter 7 A Bigger Opportunity and Challenge

Chapter 8 Rowing the Boat at the University of Minnesota

A Culture in Need of Change

The Harder Right

Another Year One: The Dig

Setting the Standard

A Culture of Rowers

A Roller Coaster Season: The Foundation

Rest-OAR-Ation: The Framework

Chapter 9 A Wave of Change

Chapter 10 Rowing through Adversity

Responding to Adversity

Compass of Faith

The Ultimate Response

Chapter 11 Beyond Football

Chapter 12 The Impact of Row the Boat Beyond Football

Helping Families Stay Together

Rowing Together

Chapter 13 Rowing into the Future

Chapter 14 Where Do You Row the Boat from Here?

Make Today Better-Change Your Best

Be the Reason

Keep Rowing

Other Resources

Other Books by Jon Gordon

EULA.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781119766315

1119766311

9781119766308

1119766303

OCLC:

1251446517