Top Gun Performance : From the Cockpit to the Boardroom

Jack A Stark

ISBN 10: 1640126236 / ISBN 13: 9781640126237

Published by Potomac Books Aug 2025, 2025

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Neuware - Top Gun Performance can help readers learn to achieve happiness, success, and health in school, sports, work, and life. Ted Carter, a Top Gun graduate, and Jack Stark, a performance psychologist and psychotherapist, have observed, commanded, and treated the behaviors of thousands of individuals. Both understand the need to pursue a specific lifestyle to perform at the very top. Both are tuned in to what people want out of life, what is getting in their way, and what they can do to overcome the mental and physical obstacles keeping them from achieving a Top Gun performance in all areas of their lives. Carter and Stark use their personal and professional histories to teach readers the psychological and mental performance tools they can use on a daily basis to meet the challenges they face. The authors share behind-the-scenes stories, techniques, and analysis to provide readers with a blueprint for building their own exceptional performance. Reviewing their careers in helping other people obtain successful outcomes, Carter and Stark offer a program readers can use in their own lives.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Top Gun Performance : From the Cockpit to the Boardroom
• Publisher: Potomac Books Aug 2025
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1640126236
• ISBN 13: 9781640126237
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 233W x 162H x 24D millimeters 233 millimeters width by 162 millimeters height by 24 millimeters depth
• Weight: 526 grams

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Synopsis

Top Gun Performance can help readers learn to achieve happiness, success, and health in school, sports, work, and life. Ted Carter, a Top Gun graduate, and Jack Stark, a performance psychologist and psychotherapist, have observed, commanded, and treated the behaviors of thousands of individuals. Both understand the need to pursue a specific lifestyle to perform at the very top. Both are tuned in to what people want out of life, what is getting in their way, and what they can do to overcome the mental and physical obstacles keeping them from achieving a Top Gun performance in all areas of their lives.

Carter and Stark use their personal and professional histories to teach readers the psychological and mental performance tools they can use on a daily basis to meet the challenges they face. The authors share behind-the-scenes stories, techniques, and analysis to provide readers with a blueprint for building their own exceptional performance. Reviewing their careers in helping other people obtain successful outcomes, Carter and Stark offer a program readers can use in their own lives.
 

About the Author

Ted Carter is president of The Ohio State University and former president of the University of Nebraska. He is a former superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy and former president of the U.S. Naval War College. Carter graduated from the Navy Fighter Weapons School (Top Gun) in 1985. As a U.S. Navy vice admiral, he commanded vessels deployed to combat operations in Afghanistan and the Arabian Gulf. Jack Stark is a performance psychologist and the founder and director of the National Center for Coaches. He is a former director of medical psychology at Physicians Clinic in Omaha, Nebraska, and a former director of family rehabilitation and former faculty member of pediatrics and psychiatry at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.