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Contents:
Introducing Management by Baseball --
The View from the Blimp --
Getting to First Base-Mastering Management Mechanics --
Out of the Box: Starting a New Management Mission --
Executing the Fundamentals: Marshaling Time, Humans, & Knowledge --
Calling for the Hit-and-Run: Making Decisions --
Stealing Second Base-the Players Are the Product --
Scouting & Signing Your Players: Hiring --
Charting Hits: Optimizing Player Performance --
Drills: Juggling the Lineup --
Down to the Minors: Reprimanding, Demoting, & Firing --
Advancing to Third Base-Managing Yourself --
There's No "I" in "Team," but There Are an "M" and an "E": Emotional Self-Awareness --
Plate Adjustments: Intellectual Self-Awareness --
Crossing Home Plate-Managing Change --
Lowering the Pitcher's Mound: What Is Change? --
When They Rewrite the Rule Book: Responding to Changes --
The Man Who Invented Babe Ruth: Getting a Step Ahead by Initiating Changes --
Epilogue: But, but, but....
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As a baseball fan and one who thinks about management processes, I found this book both amusing and informative. Angus uses the track record of the actions of people that have managed baseball teams to comment on how management functions should be performed in business. He describes how baseball managers, specifically Maury Wills, sometimes think that because they could do something when they played, that a player on their team can automatically do it as well. This is used to emphasize the most … more
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