Soccer Thinking for Management Success: Lessons for Organizations from the World's Game - Softcover

Loge, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1785357549 ISBN 13: 9781785357541

Publisher: Changemakers Books, 2018

Synopsis

The modern world is networked and always working. Organizations no longer have the luxury of time. Expertise is no longer confined to a couple of smart guys in corner offices, reviewing information to which only they have access and issuing instructions through layers of middle-men to nine-to-fivers who carry out the dictates and feed paper back up the chain, awaiting the next set of instructions. Today’s successful organization is decentralized and never stops moving. In fact, organizational success is a lot like soccer. Every player is both a specialist and generalist. Responsibility on the field is distributed, and everyone on the team works for everyone else. Communication among players is constant. Soccer is 90 minutes of systems thinking in action. Soccer Thinking for Management Success is by a soccer fan and player who has spent a career building and running teams and organizations. He draws on insights from leaders, known and not-so-well-known who use soccer thinking to succeed. This is not just another book on how to be a great leader by a famous person. This is a management and leadership book by, and for, the rest of us.

About this title

About the Author

A respected strategic consultant, over the past two decades Peter Loge has worked with everyone from "America's Funniest Home Videos" and the American Farmland Trust, to WickedCoolStuff.com and the World Wildlife Fund. He holds degrees from Emerson College, Syracuse University, and Arizona State University, and is an Associate Fellow of Timothy Dwight College at Yale University. www.peterloge.com

Review

"Though it may not have been apparent at first, I quickly learned that many of the principles and skills I learned on the soccer field and in the locker room directly applied to my new life in an office, handling and managing some of the brightest people I've ever met. Peter's book seamlessly brings both worlds together and shows just how similar they can be."- Danny Karbassiyoon, Co-Founder , PLAYRMAKR and Total Soccer: Road to Glory, author of The Arsenal Yankee, first American to score at Arsenal

"You don't have to be a soccer fan to appreciate the lessons from 'Soccer Thinking for Management Success.' This is a fun and interesting read that anyone who manages, or who one day wants to manage, will find helpful."- Hon. Henry F. De Sio, Jr., 2008 COO of Obama for America and author of Campaign Inc.: How Leadership and Organization Propelled Barack Obama to the White House

"I tell my management students the same thing I tell my soccer teams - communicate, support each other, and hold each other accountable. Peter captures these lessons and more in ways that show how thinking like a soccer player can help professionals succeed."- Matt Winkler, Director, Sports Analytics & Management, American University and Founder, The Sports Events Marketing Experience (The SEME), youth coach

"'Soccer is war' Rinus Michels, the famed Dutch soccer coach, once said. Peter Loge doesn't go that far, but offers a highly original take on what business can learn from the addictive stew of tactical genius,  technical brilliance and raw emotions that make soccer the world's most beautiful game."- Friso van der Oord, Director of Research, National Association of Corporate Directors; author of Johan Cruyff, the American Years; aging soccer player and lifelong fan. 

 "In attempting to bridge the worlds of sports - soccer, in particular, and all its particularities - with the worlds of business and politics, Loge establishes some connections that few have synthesized and explained well. His book leaves the reader thinking about how to a better manager, a better employee, and - maybe - a better teammate on the field." NTKNetwork ntknetwork.com/book-review-soccer-thinking-for-management-success/ 

Edition details

• Publisher: Changemakers Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1785357549
• ISBN 13: 9781785357541
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 184