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Important new insights on team leadership and motivation, along with powerful tools and techniques taken from the world of sports How do the sports world's most successful coaches instill their teams with esprit de corps, a collaborative mindset, and an unbeatable desire to win? More importantly, what can business leaders and managers learn from their example? This book answers these and a host of key questions about what it takes to be a successful leader in business or in sports. Drawing upon their unique experiences working with top sports coaches, as well as some of the world's leading corporate executives, authors Dino Ruta and Paolo Guenzi offer important new insights into team leadership and motivation, as well as new tools for optimizing teamwork and inspiring teams to reach for and achieve new heights of glory.

• Develops a bold new team leadership model for managers at all levels, team leaders, project managers and facilitators, as well as sport coaches
• Arms you with powerful tools and techniques adapted from the world of sport for optimizing teamwork, driving motivating and instilling an unstoppable desire to win
• An indispensable source of insight and ideas for executives and managers in companies of all sizes, and an important supplement for postgraduate management programs

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Top business professors from Bocconi University bring us the latest new insights on team leadership and motivation with tools and techniques from the world of sport that show how top coaches optimize teamwork. This is a distinctive and vivid new book on the skills needed to lead teams, offering new models and techniques that will be welcomed by coaches and managers alike. Thanks to the dual perspective of the book (management and sport), its target market includes both business school and sports management sectors. It will be useful to business managers, as well as sports managers, and leaders everywhere. In addition, Leading Teams is relevant for management coaching in organizations, clubs, leagues and federations.

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Top business professors from Bocconi University bring us the latest new insights on team leadership and motivation with tools and techniques from the world of sport that show how top coaches optimize teamwork. This is a distinctive and vivid new book on the skills needed to lead teams, offering new models and techniques that will be welcomed by coaches and managers alike. Thanks to the dual perspective of the book (management and sport), its target market includes both business school and sports management sectors. It will be useful to business managers, as well as sports managers, and leaders everywhere. In addition, Leading Teams is relevant for management coaching in organizations, clubs, leagues and federations.

Author Biography

ABOUT THE AUTHORSPAOLO GUENZI is Associate Professor in the Department of Marketing at Bocconi University, and Professor in the Department of Marketing at SDA Bocconi School of Management, where he is the director of the courses on sales management. He teaches sales force management in the Executive Master in Marketing & Sales and in the Executive MBA. He has published several books and more than thirty articles in leading academic journals. His primary research interests are sales force management & leadership, marketing & sales relationships, and sports and entertainment marketing. He is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Personal Selling & Sales Management, and the International Journal of Sport Marketing & Sponsorship. He is the track chair of the Sales Management & Personal Selling Track of the European Marketing Academy. DINO RUTA is Professor in the Department of Organization and Human Resource Management at SDA Bocconi School of Management. He is Scientific Director of the FIFA International Master in Humanities, Management and Law of Sports. He leads the Sport Business Academy and the Sport Innovation Laboratory at SDA Bocconi School of Management. He is also Director of the Master in Organization and Human Resource Management at Bocconi University. His research activities are focused on leadership, human resources and sport management, integrating cultural and business results. He teaches People Strategy and Metrics, Leadership, and Cultural Event Management. He has published in leading academic journals as well as publishing books for several international publishers.

Table of Contents

Foreword ix Introduction 1 1 Why Sport and Management? 5 2 Management Models of Team Leadership 39 3 A New Team Leadership Model 75 4 The Team Leader as Manager 99 5 The Team Leader as Coach 171 6 Team Leadership: A Word from the Coaches 243 Carlo Ancelotti 243 Don Casey 248 Sasha Djordjevic 255 John Kirwan 260 Marcello Lippi 265 Roberto Mancini 272 Dan Peterson 278 Simone Pianigiani 284 Cesare Prandelli 289 Arrigo Sacchi 293 Emilio Sánchez 300 Julio Velasco 307 Gianluca Vialli 310 Who's Who of Sports Coaches 317 Index 331

Review

'...its management credentials are impeccable and its thinking well-ordered.' (People Management, June 2013) 'Leading Teams is an interesting read and I would recommend it to management executives or anyone supervising a team who wishes to positively encourage and develop their business staff.' (PA Life, July 2013)

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Top business professors from Bocconi University bring us the latest new insights on team leadership and motivation with tools and techniques from the world of sport that show how top coaches optimize teamwork. This is a distinctive and vivid new book on the skills needed to lead teams, offering new models nd techniques that will be welcomed by coaches and managers alike. Thanks to the dual perspective of the book (management and sport), its target market includes both business school and sports management sectors. It will be useful to business managers, as well as sports managers, and leaders everywhere. In addition, Leading Teams ins relevant for management coaching in organizations, clubs, leagues and federations.

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'…its management credentials are impeccable and its thinking well-ordered.' (People Management, June 2013) 'Leading Teams is an interesting read and I would recommend it to management executives or anyone supervising a team who wishes to positively encourage and develop their business staff.' (PA Life, July 2013) "Leading Teams is refreshing in that it examines the link between sport and business with a seriousness which shuns the usual team building, away day clichés" (Communication Director, Nov Dec 2013)

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