Blocking and Tackling Your Way to Management Success

by Alan Simon

One of the most unique, enjoyable - and effective - management and leadership books in recent memory.Success in today's business climate requires greater managerial and leadership excellence than ever...so what happens when pro football and management fundamentals come together? you'll find forty hard-hitting lessons in the "blocking and tackling" fundamentals of management set against a backdrop of personalities and events from forty years of Pittsburgh Steelers history.Praised by USA Today, Pittsburgh Business Times, Pittsburgh Magazine...Featured on Pittsburgh's KDKA and other radio stations...Each of the forty chapters contains a memorable story about a player, coach, game, or some other aspect of a Steelers season between 1969 and 2008 as the basis for a critical management or leadership lesson that will resonate with readers from first-level supervisors up to the executive suite.Beginning with the dark days of the Steelers'' 1-13 season in 1969 and the accompanying business lesson of "Don't Panic, Because Sometimes it Really is Darkest Before the Dawn," and concluding with the Steelers' march in 2008 to their sixth Super Bowl title even as a possible change in team ownership is in the wind ("Don't Let 'Off the Field' Distractions Interfere with Your Business Mission"), readers will find a wealth of business and management lessons Strategic and tactical planning- Resolving problems and getting through difficult situations - Job assignments and career broadening- Recruiting, hiring, and firing- Evaluating and rewarding employee performance- Dealing with dissension in the ranks- Measuring and managing your organizational KPIs - Sales management best practices - Project management(This book and the author are not affiliated with nor endorsed by the Pittsburgh Steelers organization, The National Football League, or any player, coach, or team official mentioned herein. No representations to the contrary are made by Thinking Helmet, Inc., the author, or any other party.)

267 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

From USA TODAY bestselling author Alan Simon...just published: THE DELUCA FURLOUGH BRIDES - BOOK 1: THE ONES THEY LEFT BEHIND...a "spinoff" novel to THE FIRST CHRISTMAS OF THE WAR and its sequels.

Also available: the USA TODAY bestseller GETTYSBURG, 1913: THE COMPLETE NOVEL OF THE GREAT REUNION...a very unique story (originally written as a 3-part serialized novel) set against the backdrop of the real-life, all-but-forgotten "Great Reunion" of more than 50,000 aging Civil War veterans to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg. In the midst of this tale of the greatest post-war healing event the world has ever seen you'll also find a sweet, turn-of-last-century love story between a widowed nurse and a lonely Philadelphia physician.

Author of a memoir about growing up watching the great baseball player Roberto Clemente who lost his life on a mercy mission to earthquake-ravaged Nicaragua more than 40 years ago on New Year's Eve. Enjoy:

Clemente: Memories of a Once-Young Fan - Four Birthdays, Three World Series, Two Holiday Steelers Games, and One Bar Mitzvah.