• 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 (1,110 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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Develop team culture

Mike Smith and John Gordon do a great job in teaching you the insides of building a team with culture unity and common goals and interests. Very enjoyable and a great learning opportunity in this book. I recommend it highly to any coach, Manager or leader who wants to improve his team, business or group.

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Great coaching for business and life

This is one of my new favorites. As a business manager it is helping me refocus on the development of my team which ultimately sustain a high level of performance.

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Solid basic fundamental material – delivered extraordinarily.

Just got done with my fifth listen. Making big changes in my family life because of it. Life is getting simpler and how to make a difference is becoming more clear. I love this empowering book and the way it is delivered by these two wonderful men.

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boring

reads like lame fortune cookie phrases. forced to read this. work propaganda. Smith sucked that's why he was canned

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Straight to the point!

There is so much value in the book. And you don’t have to be a coach or a leader to read this book. It is also an amazing book for a member of a team as it shows the qualities of what makes a great team player.

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Speed it up to 1.5 speed. makes it easier to process.

Good read for coaches and leaders. Maybe they should have hired a pro to read the book. I could only finish the book by speeding it up to 1.5 speed.

I liked everything they had to teach. Biggest take away was the impact that culture has on the team and to stop complaining. Would recommend for leaders, coaches, management, or supervisors.

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Pretty insightful look at leadership

Overall it was a good book, lots of useful information for those in leadership. Best part of the book was the information about experiencing success and how it can unintentionally take you away from what got you to that point. Good info on how to avoid those pitfalls to maintain high levels of success.
Not super engaging to where you didn’t want to stop listening, but if you are looking to learn it is a great resource to educate yourself on another way to do things.

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Great leadership ideas, but way too many sports references.

The leadership key points were great. I did find the book enjoyable, but it had so many sports references that it took away from the overall message.

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Great read for coaches

Exactly what I was looking for during my preseason preparation! Great tips and reflection to grow as a coach.

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Awesome

Amazing leadership book! 40 years of coaching experience, and I am so impressed how much is incapacitated in this audio book

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