Culture Of Excellence What We Can Learn From The Yankees About Leadership

HOW DO CULTURE AND LEADERSHIP IMPACT THE PERFORMANCE OF A TEAM? For the past thirty years, one organization in baseball has stood taller than all the rest: the New York Yankees. In Culture of Excellence, Colin Cerniglia takes us inside baseball's most successful franchise to uncover compelling and useful lessons in leadership. Culture of Excellence is transformative in its premise: it shares strategies you will want to apply and knowledge you can acquire to effectively improve your team and motivate your people. The Yankees are the premier franchise in baseball, but in spite of all the excellence, their organizational structure wasn't always intact. You'll discover how one of the most powerful owners in sports history, by changing his leadership style, positively altered the fortunes of the franchise long after he has passed away. And, you'll see how the people of the Yankees have powerful stories that illustrate the crucial elements of excellence that can lead to trust and transformation while offering insight into the constantly evolving business of baseball. WITH THREE FOUNDATIONAL PILLARS, YOU CAN BECOME A MORE EFFECTIVE LEADER AND BUILD A CULTURE OF EXCELLENCE THROUGH STORIES FROM THE YANKEES.

Since the 1920’s, the New York Yankees have become the most successful sports franchise in history because of the way they manage their talent and their organization. So how do they do it? The Yankees’ sustained success can be traced to 14 core management principles, applicable to any business operating today. These principles embrace cultivation of home-grown talent, creation of a culture that demands excellence, pursuit and introduction of the most talented players from outside the organization, promotion of a diversified workforce, and utilization of a productive farm system as currency in making talent deals.

What is leadership? What is organizational culture, and why does it matter? How can you ensure your organization excels even while others fail? As the CEO and CLO of a large distributed multi-site and multi-state organization, Dr. Fardad Fateri and James E. York are certainly qualified to answer these questions and more-between them, they have decades of experience leading businesses and organizations at every level. Now for the first time they've put their collected wisdom into an essential book explaining how to take your organization to top levels of performance. The magic word is one you've heard but perhaps not fully considered: culture. At a time of economic uncertainty, it's more vital than ever that your organization's culture encourages passion, responsibility, and success. But how? Read on to discover: -How to transform your organization from one of failure, cynicism, and weakness to one of success, peak performance, and responsibility. -How to display breakthrough leadership traits that will help foster a positive organizational culture. -Real-life examples of great organizational cultures, as well as hands-on lessons. With an ever-increasing gap between organizations that fail and those that skyrocket, the question isn't whether you should read A Culture of Excellence-it's whether you can afford not to!

HOW DO CULTURE AND LEADERSHIP IMPACT THE PERFORMANCE OF A TEAM? For the past thirty years, one organization in baseball has stood taller than all the rest: the New York Yankees. In Culture of Excellence, Colin Cerniglia takes us inside baseball's most successful franchise to uncover compelling and useful lessons in leadership. Culture of Excellence is transformative in its premise: it shares strategies you will want to apply and knowledge you can acquire to effectively improve your team and motivate your people. The Yankees are the premier franchise in baseball, but in spite of all the excellence, their organizational structure wasn't always intact. You'll discover how one of the most powerful owners in sports history, by changing his leadership style, positively altered the fortunes of the franchise long after he has passed away. And, you'll see how the people of the Yankees have powerful stories that illustrate the crucial elements of excellence that can lead to trust and transformation while offering insight into the constantly evolving business of baseball. WITH THREE FOUNDATIONAL PILLARS, YOU CAN BECOME A MORE EFFECTIVE LEADER AND BUILD A CULTURE OF EXCELLENCE THROUGH STORIES FROM THE YANKEES.

Reestablish the connection between your organization’s talent and its leadership In The Champion Leader: Harnessing the Power of Emotional Intelligence to Build High-Performing Teams, bestselling author Christopher D. Connors delivers an invaluable, inspiring discussion of how to adapt to the rapidly changing rules of engagement in the modern workplace. You’ll find out why so many employees feel disconnected from their leaders in today’s remote and hybrid working environments and how to address that disconnect. Connors explains how to prioritize one-on-one and team conversations focused on understanding employee needs, career development, and wellbeing to help foster a future-focused organization. He also walks you through how to maximize your emotional intelligence and enhance your leadership skills to assist in the development of a high-performing organization that delivers superior results. The Champion Leader also offers: Ways to build adaptability, assertiveness, and empathy in the pursuit of connection between your organization’s employees and its leadership Strategies for developing self-awareness of how you show up and model leadership for others in your organization Research-backed insights on how to improve your self-confidence to create a culture of camaraderie and connection Techniques for engaging with and supporting people to improve employee retention and recruitment The Champion Leader is an inspiring and insightful resource for managers, executives, and all business leaders seeking to become more emotionally intelligent for themselves—and to give that gift to everyone in their organization. The Champion Leader is an essential guide to solidifying your leadership foundation.

In the third book in the Lessons from Charlie Trotter series teaches wine directors and servers how to develop and maintain impeccable service by giving an in-depth look at one of the world’s top wine programs. At Charlie Trotter's eponymous restaurant in Chicago, the innovative and award-winning wine program is an essential part of an extraordinary dining experience. LESSONS IN WINE SERVICE outlines and analyzes the intricate challenges inherent in developing and executing consistently outstanding wine pairings and service. Aspiring sommeliers, restaurant owners, and wine servers will learn how to hire and train the right staff, provide precise and intuitive service, and craft and maintain a compelling wine list. "Anyone who wants to understand American cuisine as it enters the 21st century must eat at Charlie Trotter's No restaurant in America comes closer to delivering a flawless total dining experience." --Wine Spectator

“Weaves together thoughts, stories, and quotes from top performers in music, business, and sports to help you achieve excellence” (Jeff Janssen, founder and president of the Janssen Sports Leadership Center). Does excellence relentlessly drive you? Does mediocrity constantly bother you? In Working Toward Excellence, Clemson University professor Paul Buyer identifies eight values for achieving excellence in work and life including hunger, effort, process, quality, consistency, leadership, time, and perseverance. Each chapter features inspiring stories, questions, and quotes from respected professionals who have achieved uncommon success in business, sports, education, and the arts such as John Maxwell, Jim Collins, Stephen Covey, John Wooden, Mike Krzyzewski, Wynton Marsalis, Isaac Stern, and many others. Also included is a Working Toward Excellence Evaluation to help you and your organization reach your true potential and further develop, improve, and measure these essential attributes of success. “Working Toward Excellence has captures my attention in a big way. It is filled with valuable and practical information. It will make a major difference in your life.” —Pat Williams, Orlando Magic, senior vice president, author of Leadership Excellence

Legendary New York Yankees pitcher Ron Guidry recounts his years playing for one of the most storied and celebrated teams in sports history--the world champion New York Yankees during their heyday in the Bronx Zoo years, with manic manager Billy Martin, headline loving owner George Steinbrenner, and an ego-driven all-star cast that included everyone from slugger Reggie Jackson and All star catcher Thurman Munson to Cy Young Award winners Sparky Lyle and Catfish Hunter. Ron Guidry, known as Gator and Louisiana Lightning to his teammates, quickly rose in 1977 to become the ace of the Yankees' stellar pitching staff, helping the team regarded as the most famous and notorious in Yankee history win the World Series. In 1978, he went 25-3 with a 1.74 ERA and won the Cy Young Award as the best pitcher in baseball, helping to bring home the Yankees' second straight World Series championship. A four-time All Star and five-time Golden Glove winner, he played from 1976 to 1988, served as the Yankees' captain in the 1980s, and remains one of the greatest pitchers in Yankee history. In Gator, Guidry takes us inside the clubhouse to tell us what it was like to play amidst the chaos and almost daily confrontations between Billy Martin and George Steinbrenner, Martin's altercations with star slugger Reggie "the straw that stirs the drink" Jackson. He talks poignantly about the death of Thurman Munson in 1979, and the impact that had on Ron and on the club. He tells stories about players like Lou Pinella, Willie Randolph, Bucky Dent, Catfish Hunter, Chris Chambliss, and Mickey Rivers, and coach Yogi Berra (who in 1984 became the Yankees' manager) and Elston Howard.