Blocking and Tackling Your Way to Management Success

One of the most unique, enjoyable - and effective - management and leadership books in recent memory.Success in today's business climate requires greater managerial and leadership excellence than ever...so what happens when pro football and management fundamentals come together? you'll find forty hard-hitting lessons in the "blocking and tackling" fundamentals of management set against a backdrop of personalities and events from forty years of Pittsburgh Steelers history.Praised by USA Today, Pittsburgh Business Times, Pittsburgh Magazine...Featured on Pittsburgh's KDKA and other radio stations...Each of the forty chapters contains a memorable story about a player, coach, game, or some other aspect of a Steelers season between 1969 and 2008 as the basis for a critical management or leadership lesson that will resonate with readers from first-level supervisors up to the executive suite.Beginning with the dark days of the Steelers'' 1-13 season in 1969 and the accompanying business lesson of "Don't Panic, Because Sometimes it Really is Darkest Before the Dawn," and concluding with the Steelers' march in 2008 to their sixth Super Bowl title even as a possible change in team ownership is in the wind ("Don't Let 'Off the Field' Distractions Interfere with Your Business Mission"), readers will find a wealth of business and management lessons Strategic and tactical planning- Resolving problems and getting through difficult situations - Job assignments and career broadening- Recruiting, hiring, and firing- Evaluating and rewarding employee performance- Dealing with dissension in the ranks- Measuring and managing your organizational KPIs - Sales management best practices - Project management(This book and the author are not affiliated with nor endorsed by the Pittsburgh Steelers organization, The National Football League, or any player, coach, or team official mentioned herein. No representations to the contrary are made by Thinking Helmet, Inc., the author, or any other party.)