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  • You Win in the Locker Room First

  • The 7 C's to Build a Winning Team in Business, Sports, and Life
  • By: Jon Gordon, Mike Smith
  • Narrated by: Jon Gordon, Mike Smith
  • Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (61 ratings)

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You Win in the Locker Room First

By: Jon Gordon, Mike Smith
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NFL head coach Mike Smith led one of the most remarkable turnarounds in NFL history. In the season prior to his arrival in 2008, the Atlanta Falcons had a 4-12, record and the franchise had never before achieved back-to-back winning seasons. Under Smith's leadership, the Falcons earned an 11-5 record in his first season and would go on to become perennial playoff and Super Bowl contenders, earning Smith AP coach of year in 2008 and voted coach of year by his peers in 2008, 2010, and 2012.

You Win in the Locker Room First draws on the extraordinary experiences of Coach Mike Smith and Jon Gordon - consultant to numerous college and professional teams - to explore the seven powerful principles that any business, school, organization, or sports team can adopt to revitalize their organization.

Step by step, the authors outline a strategy for building a thriving organization and provide a practical framework that give leaders the tools they need to create a great culture, lead with the right mind-set, create strong relationships, improve teamwork, execute at a higher level, and avoid the pitfalls that sabotage far too many leaders and organizations.

In addition to sharing what went right with the Falcons, Smith also transparently shares what went wrong his last two seasons and provides invaluable lessons leaders can take away from his victories, success, failures, and mistakes.

Whether it's an executive leadership team of a Fortune 500 company, a sports team, an emergency room team, a military team, or a school team, successful leaders coach their team and develop, mentor, encourage, and guide them. This not only improves the team; it improves the leaders and their relationships, connections, and organization.

You Win in the Locker Room First offers a rare behind-the-scenes look at one of the most pressure-packed leadership jobs on the planet and what leaders can learn from these experiences in order to build their own winning team.

©2015 Jon Gordon; Mike Smith (P)2016 Gildan Media LLC

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Awesome book

loved every minute of it. Great easy lessons to pick up on.
Im most definitely going to listen to this again.

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easy quick and simple

this is a great book for understanding the simplicity of building a culture in any team and especially cause it's related to the energy bus

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Good Read

Whilst not going into the micro detail a good broad discussion on the difference between two distinct ways of leading.

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Masterpiece

Probably one of the best books ever written about teamwork, synergy and successful leadership. Jon Gordon and Mike Smith bring their invaluable experience and share the fundamentals of what makes teams great. This book is powerful because of its common sense, simplicity and proven methods. The 7Cs are a great foundation to build or reinforce your team or become a better coach and leader. Thanks Jon and Mike you will really change the lives of many with this masterpiece.

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surprised!

great listen, lots of tips, thought processes and ideas I will implement into my club/team

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