You Win in the Locker Room First, Mike Smith
You Win in the Locker Room First, Mike Smith
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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

Author: Mike Smith, Jon Gordon

Narrator: Mike Smith, Jon Gordon

Unabridged: 3 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 03/01/2016


Synopsis

NFL head coach Mike Smith lead 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 mindset, 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, 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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Brian on September 03, 2018

The book is set up like a lecture or motivational speech where you get the perspective of Mike Smith (former NFL coach) and Jon Gordon (leadership expert) going back and forth as though they were on stage. It is an easy read that provides two perspectives as they guide you through the 7 C’s to buildi......more

Goodreads review by Dylan on March 13, 2023

Quick and easy. Very eye opening to what it takes to build sustainable culture in sports......more

Goodreads review by Logan on August 25, 2020

Not a huge fan of books like this (read it for work), but this one was pretty good—and I’m pretty sure Scott Frost has read this book, so..........more

Goodreads review by Eric on September 16, 2021

This book was a great reminder of the importance of the team and leadership. Even as I listened to it, I felt myself challenged in my leadership and the planning that needed to go into effect for a team, and the ownership I had to have. It was a timely book to think about the 7 C's - Culture, Contagi......more

Goodreads review by Dustin on January 01, 2024

Mike Smith and Jon Gordon 7 Cs 1. Culture- culture drives expectations and beliefs. 2. Contagious- people up to 10 feet away can sense your heart and feelings. Broadcast positive energy. 3. Consistent- be consistent in your leadership style! Be your authentic self. 4. Communicate - the best communicator......more