High-Performance Leadership

Author: Winter
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Publish Date: 2004-09-01
Features: The author has resided in the highest echelons of one of the world's most high-performing Olympic sports delegations and has successfully combined the performance-enhancing experiences of the Olympics with the pressures of today's business environment. This masterpiece enables readers to gain a proper understanding of Olympic athletes' performance! Citing vivid examples and interviews from the world's most successful Olympic sports systems, Mount Everest expeditions, medical rescue, special operations forces, and countless business activities, it reveals how the best leaders create high-performance cultures through progressive models, tools, and methods. Based on the research findings of PwC's High-Performance Leadership Program, it summarizes and provides a powerful yet simple and actionable method. CEOs, managers, team leaders, and private business owners can learn how to:
Create a winning corporate culture by applying the methods of Olympic coaches to their own programs
Design a dynamic performance model that can be accepted by everyone in the organization