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In Management by Baseball, Jeff
Angus arms you with practical examples and proven techniques
you can use to improve your managerial effectiveness at work,
at home—anywhere. As you dash from first base to home
plate, Jeff Angus makes learning to become a great manager
a great reading experience:
Managing the Mechanics
Every day of the baseball season, skippers
skillfully juggle complex decisions, from choosing a lineup
to calling for a steal. In the dugout, they handle abstract
concepts like time management and training techniques. In
the office, they pore over research reports and apply them
to the problems at hand. Learn from the masters the methods
of successful operational management (and lessons in what
to avoid from baseball’s biggest bunglers).
Managing the Talent
Great baseball managers know how to get
the most out of a team over a long season by understanding
how to evaluate and motivate players, and when and how to
hire and fire them. Learn how to apply their models and get
the most out of your team.
Managing Yourself
The most successful managers in and out
of baseball learn enough about their own habits, biases, and
strengths to overcome preconceived notions. Boost your own
skills through examples of how baseball’s best and worst came
to grips with intellectual and emotional blind spots that
undermine their effectiveness.
Managing Change—and Driving It
The best baseball managers know how to
adapt to significant changes in the game. So should anyone
who works outside a ballpark. Lessons from baseball will improve
your ability to thrive in times of change and actively drive
changes to your company’s advantage—and your own.
Through Management by Baseball,
learn how Hall of Fame baseball managers like Connie Mack
and John McGraw have more in common with today’s business
leaders than you may think. Find out why baseball managers
like Joe Torre and Dusty Baker are better role models for
business, government, and nonprofit management than even the
most respected corporate giants.
How do you redesign corporate strategy
in response to your competitors?
Learn Joe Torre’s secret advantage.
How do you start an organization from
scratch? Take a page from baseball’s 19th-century origins.
How do you adapt to changing markets and social conditions?
Learn from the man who invented Babe Ruth.
What are the simplest ways to turn around
a weak department?
Pick up Dick Williams’s proven tactics.
If you manage, if you like baseball—and
if you want to learn more than you thought possible about
business leadership in just a few hours of delightful reading—it’s
time to get your MBB!
Jeff Angus is an award-winning manager
and management consultant. He is also a professional baseball
writer and a member of the Society for American Baseball Research.
His management background includes start-ups, entrepreneurial
and big corporations, large and small agencies, and nonprofits.
He’s written about business for leading national magazines
and on baseball for numerous newspapers and other media. He
lives in Seattle, Washington, with his family.
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