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

Publisher's summary

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

Recommended

A great book on team building and process. Great for anyone in leadership who's dedicated about building a stronger team and developing leaders.

It was on sale and I’m so glad I got it! Turned out to be excellent!

I wasn’t expecting much when I started this book, probably because it was on sale and I hadn’t heard of the author, but it was fantastic. Really great book on coaching and being a leader in business, sports, wherever.

Loved It!

This book nails it! if your a new manager I especially recommend this book! it's a must read for anyone in management or aspiring to be in management.

Awesome book

As a former athlete and sports writer, I had forgotten how much sports teaches leadership. As a new leader in my organization, this is one of the best books I've read or listened to. I'll listen to it again and again.

good material

i thought the material covered in the book was valuable and good. i do wish that both narrators did a better job. both seemed very tight in presenting the material... not bad, just think it could be better.

Good

This book was good but I would primarily recommend it for coaches rather than entrepreneurs. But I still learned from it.

Another Gordon Gem

I have read many of his books and have enjoyed everyone. This one includes one of my major interests professional sports so I found it doubly
good!

authentic

Good basic steps to team building and avoiding the traps and Murphy's Law sneaking into the picture

Love the content HATE the performance

Would you consider the audio edition of You Win in the Locker Room First to be better than the print version?

dont know. cant be better because the narration was like listening to a 3rd grader read.

How could the performance have been better?

Get someone else who can read in one complete sentence without awkward pauses and terrible pronunciation.

Great audio book!

well recommended for anyone looking to build a strong team and build champions to win