The Competitive Edge: How to Win Every Time You Compete

At work, in sports, and in everyday life, you're constantly surrounded by the pressures of competition. In The Competitive Edge, celebrated sports psychologist Dr. Jeffrey Brown offers principles you can use to guide your character towards victory. He shows how to become a legitimate winner every time you compete—regardless of whether you come out on top. Whether you compete against others in sports or business—or compete within yourself to achieve personal goals—the means by which you win tells the real story as to whether or not you are a champion.
Teaches the reader to redefine victory and aggressively pursue it in every competitive situation. Demonstrates the importance of maintaining strong integrity and high character. Strategies for winning appropriate for court and field, workplace, and home. Illustrates the challenges, risks, and rewards involved in doing what is right through examples from real life, biblical history, media, and popular culture

Dr. Jeffrey Brown is an Instructor in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and a Clinical Associate at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts. Dr. Brown has been the psychologist for the Boston Marathon Medical Team since 2002 and is listed on the United States Olympic Committee Sport Psychology Registry for the 2004-2008 Quadrennium. A former collegiate baseball player himself, he is board-certified by the American Board of Professional Psychology in both Clinical Psychology and Cognitive & Behavioral Psychology. Dr. Brown maintains a private clinical and consulting practice in Arlington, Massachusetts. He, his wife Carolynne, and their son Grant, live in the Boston area.