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Co-Active Coaching: New Skills for Coaching People Toward Success in Work and Life

Co-Active Coaching: New Skills for Coaching People Toward Success in Work and Life

by Henry Kimsey-House, Phil Sandahl, Laura Whitworth

A newly revised edition of the book that helped define the coaching profession, Co-Active Coaching captures the essence of what it takes to design and maintain successful, collaborative, and empowering coaching relationships. The authors describe in detail their flexible and adaptive model-placing the client's agenda at the heart of the coaching partnership, define the skills required for success, provide dozens... (more)

The Four-Hour Work Week

Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich

by Timothy Ferriss

What do you do? Tim Ferriss has trouble answering the question. Depending on when you ask this controversial Princeton University guest lecturer, he might answer: “I race motorcycles in Europe.” “I ski in the Andes.” “I scuba dive in Panama.” “I dance tango in Buenos Aires.” He has spent more than five years learning the secrets of the New Rich, a fast-growing subculture who has abandoned the “deferred-life... (more)

Four Days to Glory: Wrestling with the Soul of the American Heartland

Four Days to Glory: Wrestling with the Soul of the American Heartland

by Mark Kreidler

Somewhere beyond the circle of money, glitz, drugs, and controversy that characterizes professional sports in America, remnants of an ideal exist. In Iowa, that ideal survives in the form of high school wrestling. Each a three-time state champion, Jay Borschel and Dan LeClere have a chance in their senior year to join the sport's most elite group: the "four-timers," wrestlers who win four consecutive state... (more)

Season of Life: A Football Star, a Boy, a Journey to Manhood

Season of Life: A Football Star, a Boy, a Journey to Manhood

by Jeffrey Marx

Joe Ehrmann, a former NFL football star and volunteer coach for the Gilman high school football team, teaches his players the keys to successful defense: penetrate, pursue, punish, love. Love? A former captain of the Baltimore Colts and now an ordained minister, Ehrmann is serious about the game of football but even more serious about the purpose of life. Season of Life is his inspirational story as told by... (more)

Sacred Hoops: Spiritual Lessons of a Hardwood Warrior

Sacred Hoops: Spiritual Lessons of a Hardwood Warrior

by Phil Jackson

With a new introduction, Phil Jackson’s modern classic of motivation, teamwork, and Zen insight is updated for a whole new readership "Not only is there more to life than basketball, there’s a lot more to basketball than basketball." -- Phil Jackson Eleven years ago, when Phil Jackson first wrote these words in Sacred Hoops , he was the triumphant head coach of the Chicago Bulls, known for his Zen... (more)

The Football Coaching Bible

by American Football Coaches Association

The Football Coaching Bible features many of the game's most successful coaches. Each shares the special insight, advice, and strategies they've used to field championship-winning teams season after season. The 27 chapter contributing coaches span six decades of the sport and reach into every corner of the United States. The impressive list of contributors: Joe Paterno Hayden Fry Phil Fulmer Dick... (more)

Fierce Conversations: Achieving Sucess at Work and in Life One Conversation at a Time

Fierce Conversations: Achieving Sucess at Work and in Life One Conversation at a Time

by Susan Scott

The Wall Street Journal bestseller, now with new material. The master teacher of positive change through powerful communication, Susan Scott wants her readers to succeed. To do that, she explains, one must transform everyday conversations employing effective ways to get the message across. In this guide, which includes exercises and tools to take you step by step through the Seven Principles of Fierce... (more)

The Miracle of St. Anthony: A Season with Coach Bob Hurley and Basketball's Most Improbable Dynasty

The Miracle of St. Anthony: A Season with Coach Bob Hurley and Basketball's Most Improbable Dynasty

by Adrian Wojnarowski

The inspiring story of an inner-city basketball team and the fiery coaching genius who leads them to greatness. On the mean streets of Jersey City, St. Anthony High School is more than a tiny brick schoolhouse-it is a beacon of hope. Though the school constantly teeters on the brink of bankruptcy, it is held together by two feisty Felician nuns devoted to helping students overcome the scourges of poverty by... (more)

Knight: My Story

by Bobby Knight

Bob Knight was a head coach in college basketball at twenty-four, coach of an unbeaten NCAA champion at thirty-five, coach of the last amateur team to win the Olympic men's basketball gold medal at forty-three, and out of a job at not quite sixty. His shock, disappointment and anger over Indiana University's manner of firing a twenty-nine-year employee comes through clearly in his account of his last turbulent... (more)

Leading with the Heart: Coach K's Successful Strategies for Basketball, Business, and Life

Leading with the Heart: Coach K's Successful Strategies for Basketball, Business, and Life

by Donald T. Phillips, Mike Krzyzewski

In some respects, a top-level college coach is a lot like a manager in any business. He has to turn a group of talented individuals into a smoothly running team, and he has to produce results that please the fans of his team--the shareholders of the athletic program. Thus, in Leading with the Heart, Krzyzewski reviews the lessons he's learned as basketball coach at Duke University, and tries to universalize them... (more)

Authentic Happiness

by Martin E.P. Seligman

This title describes 24 strengths and virtues which each person can develop to their maximum potential. It provides a variety of tests and assessment tools to enable readers to discover and deploy those strengths at home and in the home.

The Optimistic Child: A Proven Program to Safeguard Children Against Depression and BuildLifelong Resilience

The Optimistic Child: A Proven Program to Safeguard Children Against Depression and BuildLifelong Resilience

by Karen Reivich, Martin E. P. Seligman

In The Optimistic Child, Dr. Martin E. P. Seligman offers parents, teachers, and coaches a well-validated program to prevent depression in children. In a thirty-year study, Seligman and his colleagues discovered the link between pessimism -- dwelling on the most catastrophic cause of any setback -- and depression. Seligman shows adults how to teach children the skills of optimism that can help them combat... (more)

Wooden : A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections on and Off the Court

Wooden : A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections on and Off the Court

by John R. Wooden, Steve Jamison

Evoking days gone by when coaches were expected as much for their off-court performance as for their success on the court, this unique and intimate work presents the timeless wisdom of legendary basketball coach John Wooden. In honest and telling passages about virtually every aspect of life, Wooden shares the important personal philosophies that helped make him the winningest coach of all time.

Learned Optimism

by Martin E. P. Seligman

Compiles scientific evidence that optimism is vital to overcoming defeat and exhibits how readers can learn the habit of optimism necessary for a successful and happy life. Reprint. NYT. PW.

Good Knight/Knightmares: The Bright and Dark Sides of Bob Knight

Good Knight/Knightmares: The Bright and Dark Sides of Bob Knight

Life Coaching Handbook (2 CD's)

by Curly Martin

If you are considering life coaching as a career, then meet your winning coach. The Life Coaching Handbook is a complete guide to creating and sustaining your practice, a comprehensive resource for coaching yourself towards a more fulfilled life, and a reference and companion that will continue to serve you through your professional life. But what exactly is Life coaching, and is it the career for you? The first... (more)

Discover Your Inner Strength

by Willa Edgerton-Chisler, Brian Tracey, Ken Blanchard, Stephen Covey

Everyone has inner strength. For some it is evident in their leadership style. For others it shows in the unstoppable way they push on to reach their goals. in many, it is manifested in a quiet self-confidence that helps them triumph over the tough times in life. Willa Edgerton Chisler, certified Coach, motivational speaker, and author, has been selected from a nationwide search to be featured in Discover... (more)

Bleachers

by John Grisham

The Genius: How Bill Walsh Reinvented Football and Created an NFL Dynasty

The Genius: How Bill Walsh Reinvented Football and Created an NFL Dynasty

by David Harris

The Genius is the gripping and definitive account of Bill Walsh’s career and how he built a football dynasty from the rubble of a fallen franchise. David Harris gives a stellar account of the silver-haired sophisticate from humble working-class roots who was hired as head coach and general manager of the San Francisco Forty Niners in January 1979 and became the architect of what is arguably the greatest ten-year... (more)

A Leader Becomes a Leader: Inspirational Stories of Leadership for a New Generation

A Leader Becomes a Leader: Inspirational Stories of Leadership for a New Generation

by J. Kevin Sheehan

A Leader Becomes a Leader opens with a window on history: Henry David Thoreau riding a borrowed horse and wagon into the woods around Concord, Massachusetts to Walden Pond in 1845. There, he writes a classic work that has a powerful effect on the lives and philosophies of seminal leaders in the next century as diverse as Mohandas Gandhi, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Nelson Mandela. Thoreau believed that a... (more)

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