Books for coaches to read

[hockeygod]

Some books I bought over the last ten months (not including gifts)… no way to track my library reading list. I am a voracious and quick reader; I try to read 15+ books / month – after the kids go to bed!

Hockey: For the Coach, the Player and the Fan

The Bowden Way: 50 Years of Leadership Wisdom

Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home

Game Plan for Life: Your Personal Playbook for Success

We Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance

Whose Game Is It, Anyway?: A Guide to Helping Your Child Get the Most from Sports, Organized by Age and Stage

Win Forever: Live, Work, and Play Like a Champion

The Winner's Brain: 8 Strategies Great Minds Use to Achieve Success

Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, & Priorities of a Winning Life

Game On: How the Pressure to Win at All Costs Endangers Youth Sports and What Parents Can Do About It

How Lance Does It: Put the Success Formula of a Champion into Everything You Do

What It Takes To Be Number #1: Vince Lombardi on Leadership

Positive Coaching: Building Character and Self-Esteem Through Youth Sports

Ordinary Children Extraordinary Teacher

The High School Sports Parent: Developing Triple-Impact Competitors

Positive Sports Parenting: How Second-Goal Parents Raise Winners in Life Through Sports

Herb Brooks Motivational Biography: "America's Coach" & "Remembering Herbie"

Behind the Iron Curtain: Tears in the Perfect Hockey ''GULAG''

The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently

InSideOut Coaching: How Sports Can Transform Lives

Soccer Awareness

The Rare Find

The Paleo Diet for Athletes: A Nutritional Formula For Peak Athletic Performance

Passion to Win, A

Heart Zones Cycling: The Avid Cyclist's Guide to Riding Faster and Farther

The Man Watching: Anson Dorrance and the University of North Carolina Women's Soccer Dynasty

21st Century Skills: Learning for Life in Our Times

Idea Mapping: How to Access Your Hidden Brain Power, Learn Faster, Remember More, and Achieve Succes

The Double-goal Coach: Positive Coaching Tools for Honoring the Game and Developing Winners in Sport

Herb Brooks: The Inside Story of a Hockey Mastermind

Marva Collins Way Updated Edition

Developing Game Sense Through Tactical Learning

Play

Whole New Mind

The Genius In All Of Us: New Insights Into Genetics, Talent, And IQ

The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance

Bounce

TGfU – Simply Good Pedagogy: Understanding a Complex Challenge

Transforming Play

Teaching Sport Concepts and Skills-2nd Edition

Sport Progressions

Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

Succeed

Out Of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative

Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas On Presentation Design And Delivery

The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need

The Art Of Scouting: How The Hockey Experts Really Watch The Game and Decide Who Makes It

The 7 Secrets of World Class Athletes

101 ways to be a terrific sports parent : making athletics a positive experience for your child

Game Over : Penn State, Jerry Sandusky, and the culture of silence

One on one : behind the scenes with the greats in the game

Why Johnny hates sports : [why organized youth sports are failing our children and what we can do about it]

The checklist manifesto : how to get things right

Steve Jobs (Biography)

Deep survival : who lives, who dies, and why : true stories of miraculous endurance and sudden death

Dean
M.Ed (Coaching)
Ch.P.C. (Chartered Professional Coach)
Game Intelligence Training
"Great education depends on great teaching."

[Tom Molloy]

This is the topic for this discussion.
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Dean,
Whats the name of Fred Shero's book? Would love to get that

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http://www.amazon.com/Shero-Man-Behind- … 498&sr=8-2

http://www.amazon.com/Hockey-Coach-Play … 498&sr=8-3

both these look awesome
Aberdeen,
Aberdeen,

I have his first one (1975) Shero: The Man Behind the System. I bought it at a local second hand bookstore for $20 last year.

Check http://www.abebooks.com/ to source out hard to find books. Also check your local second hand book stores. Sometimes they have an online search; other times, you have to ask them to do a search at the store in their computer; sometimes,it's old school – go to the sports section and look for yourself!
Dean,

'The Game is the Greatest Coach'
'Enjoy the Game'

[john]

Dean I dont see any John Wooden books in there. You already read them all?

[hockeygod]

Aberdeen,

I have bought / read my fair share of Coach Wooden books; haven't seen any recent releases that interest me. Most are a re-hash of his coaching pyramid with different 'spins' aimed to sell those particular books. (I did order one of his three books aimed at children but didn't include it in the list becasue nobody would care!)

"They Call Me Coach" was one of his earliest works I received and I re-read it once every year or two as I truly believe in his message and his pyramid. If people haven't read it – do it now! This would be an excellent first book to read to help identify, develop and highlight our personal coaching philosophy… an area that is the cornerstone to our coaching that (sadly) gets little attention in coaching clinics. Without a strong, identifiable coaching philosophy, you are toast. Amazingly, few coaches I speak with are able to verbalize theirs… and even fewer can show me a personal philosophy that is written!

http://www.amazon.ca/They-Call-Coach-John-Wooden/dp/0809245914

I have also read many of Coach Holtz's books – I even own an autographed copy of one – and other football / basketball / soccer coaches' books. Many take on a leadership / business / self-improvement guise. The Harvard Business Review can sometimes provide good reading too.

I also read many biographies / autobiographies and books on military leadership. Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" is a classic.

A few days per year, I will hit the University of Calgary library and spend hours reviewing research literature that I can't access from home; since I am merely an alumnus, I can't gain online access to the entire articles – only the title and abstract. So I go there to read and download articles for later use!

Yup, I am passionately curious and a bit of a learning geek! 😉 If I am not thinking, analyzing, questioning, reading, writing, coaching / teaching / parenting… I must be asleep (for only a few hours per night!)

Dean
M.Ed (Coaching)
Ch.P.C. (Chartered Professional Coach)
Game Intelligence Training
"Great education depends on great teaching."

[john]

I'm looking for "Road To Olympus" by Anatoli Tarasov.
I can't find it for less than $75! Anyone have a copy they would like to sell? Shot in a dark but thought I'd ask

[hockeygod]

Aberdeen,

Check online once / week on ABE Books for the Tarasov book. Look at the Canadian / Eastern US sellers as hockey books are more prevalent there.

Have you checked your local library? It's a longshot, but who knows…

Do you have any local 2nd hand shops? That is where I got mine… only 5 minutes from my house. The fellow lists his inventory on ABE, so I picked my book up to save the $20 on shipping. It is a fascinating read and I learned a lot from it.

It was like Christmas here in March today! I received 9 books from my earleir posted list (the first portion of my latest ABE order) from USPS; another one from Eastern Canada (the Shero book) and FINALLY, the "Developing Game Sense Through Tactical Learning" – Ray Breed and Michael Spittle (from Australia). I am expecting the second portion of the ABE order in the next day or two… also purchased a few off my above list for my Kindle.

The Aussie Game Sense book is terrific. Just reading it now. Check it out at http://www.cambridge.org

ISBN 978-1-107-60044-7

It cost me about $120 CDN, including shipping. No tax. Well worth it – so far!

Dean
M.Ed (Coaching)
Ch.P.C. (Chartered Professional Coach)
Game Intelligence Training
"Great education depends on great teaching."

[john]

this one sounds good!
Developing Game Sense Through Tactical Learning

[hockeygod]

Aberdeen,

"Developing Game Sense Through Tactical Learning" is probably the best one I have read (yet) on the subject. I recommend it highly to those who want a comprehensive look at 'what' is Game Sense and 'how' to use it in your coaching. It isn't too scientific but paints a complete picture for the reader.

Dean
M.Ed (Coaching)
Ch.P.C. (Chartered Professional Coach)
Game Intelligence Training
"Great education depends on great teaching."

[hockeygod]

Cold a Long Time: An Alpine Mystery by John Leake

Austria's 'Graveyard silence' greets book

Kevin Mitchell, StarPhoenix Sports Editor, March 22, 2012

Since writing his shocking book about the death of hockey player Duncan MacPherson and an alleged coverup, John Leake has met with icy silence from authorities in Austria.

"Graveyard silence," says Leake, author of Cold a Long Time: An Alpine Mystery.

MacPherson, a Saskatoon native who played with his hometown Blades and was a first-round draft pick of the New York Islanders, disappeared in August 1989 while travelling in Europe.

Fourteen years later, melting ice at a resort on the Stubai Glacier in Austria released MacPherson's body from its icy tomb.

And it quickly became apparent to MacPherson's parents Lynda and Bob that their son hadn't fallen down an out-of-bounds crevasse, as the authorities suggested. Their feeling – backed by compelling evidence laid out in the book – is that he was hit by a snow-grooming machine while snowboarding, severing three of his limbs, then thrown into a chasm to conceal the tragedy.

They strongly suspected a path of deception and coverup from a wide range of authority figures and medical people in Austria, and after extensive research, Leake came to share their viewpoint. The result is a scathing book that's drawn strong praise from those who have read it, but complete silence from those closest to the scene of MacPherson's disappearance.

"I believe that for the ski resort and for the Innsbruck authorities, the best strategy for them is not to stir the pot and just hope it goes away," says Leake, who is in Saskatoon for a reading at McNally Robinson tonight at 7: 30 p.m. "I was actually expecting that. I believe we have sufficient evidence to support all the conclusions I make in the book, and I don't think they can contend otherwise and get anywhere. The best strategy for them is to keep quiet and hope the whole thing just blows over."

Leake says his next step is to try and get the book published in the German language so that people who live in Austria can follow the web of lies and obfuscations the MacPhersons feel they've been subjected to since Duncan disappeared.

The case he lays out is strong and compelling. It starts with an attempt by employees at the ski resort to cover up a terrible accident, incompetence and passivity from investigating police, and a series of lies that stretched over two decades.

Leake noted Wednesday that there was no diligent investigation of MacPherson's disappearance, and no witness testimony recorded. After his body emerged, police did not attend the recovery – leaving that task to resort employees – and the body was released for burial without determining the cause of death.

When Leake presented evidence, skeletal and otherwise, to forensic specialists and medical people on this side of the ocean, they concluded that Duncan bore all the marks of being hit by a grooming tiller. That ran contrary to the dubious – or, as the book argues more bluntly, fictitious – story told by authorities in Austria.

At the heart of the tale are Duncan's parents, who made repeated trips to Europe in search of answers and stubbornly refused to give up the fight to learn exactly what happened to their son.

"It's that strange thought that in some ways, fact can be stranger than fiction," Leake said. "That's the dominant response people have to this story – it almost seems like a crazy movie or something. But it's true.

"It should have been, and could have been, very easy to solve the case of what happened to Duncan. With some very basic police work, they could have gotten to the bottom of it. The mystery was created by this refusal of the authorities in Austria to investigate it. What the police could have quickly discovered, it's entirely left to Lynda and Bob to discover. One afternoon of police work in Austria turns into, literally, two decades of frustration for the parents. For me, it was stunning to contemplate that.

"People think, 'they should have just given up.' At a certain point, one just has to resign oneself to the fact that you'll never really know, and this will be a mystery until your dying day. It's been frustrating for the MacPhersons, but I think it's to their credit that they kept slugging away at it until they finally got a clear picture of what happened.

"But a bit of old-fashioned detective work would have solved this in '89."

Leake says he had to suspend his own disbelief when he first immersed himself in the case. It seemed too improbable, but he soon realized that it was, in fact, not improbable at all.

"I haven't seen any evidence of malice (the day MacPherson died)," Leake says. "I just think they really screwed up, were negligent in terms of safety procedures, a dreadful accident came about as a result of it, and their instinct was to conceal it.

"People screw up, but once Duncan is dead, you have 20 years of a family putting their time, their effort, all their spirit, their energy, their savings, into trying to get to the bottom of this. To me, the concealment is the real crime in this story.

"It's that old Walter Scott quote: What a tangled web we weave when we endeavour to deceive. At each step in the story, you get the feeling that these people think they're just going to have to tell a couple of lies and the MacPhersons will go away. What the people who are committing these acts of deception didn't understand was that the MacPhersons aren't going to give up, so you're going to be obliged to tell more lies.

"That's the moral theme of the story, is the conflict between our value of the truth, and the way, in order to avoid trouble, we tell lies. That tension goes throughout the entire story."

The MacPhersons used up much of their life savings travelling back and forth from Saskatoon to Austria while trying, almost singlehandedly, to unravel the mystery behind their son's death and disappearance.

Leake says that 25 per cent of proceeds from books ordered off his website, http://www.coldalongtime.com, will go to Duncan's parents.

And, in the final accounting, both he and the MacPhersons feel it was a fight well worth waging.

"It was a very, very difficult project," says Leake, an American-born writer who lived in Austria for more than 10 years. "I was sucked into the mystery of it, but I didn't want to write anything I didn't feel 100 per cent confident was true. So much about it was ambiguous, initially. I thought it was just a horrible situation to be in, and will we ever manage to figure this out?

"Until I hired the ski-accident investigator, I really felt like we may never cut through the ambiguity of this. That was the big breakthrough, where I began to feel like now we were getting somewhere. I could feel comfortable in writing this and publishing this, because we were getting a clear sense of what happened.

"But for a long time, I was like a private investigator, slugging away at this, and lord knows if we'll ever really know. It was tough not knowing if we'd ever bring the project to fruition. I'm a freelancer, not making any money, but I really got sucked into it. But you make your own bed, this is the project I chose, and I kept moving forward with it."

Dean
M.Ed (Coaching)
Ch.P.C. (Chartered Professional Coach)
Game Intelligence Training
"Great education depends on great teaching."

[hockeygod]

Learning How to Be an NHL General Manager

Alan Bass • Blogger • "The Psychology of Hockey" • April 24, 2012

When young hockey fans realize that they are not going to be NHL superstars one day, the majority of fans suddenly develop an urge to become an NHL General Manager – the man in charge of the hockey side of an organization. What better way to learn the art of becoming one of the 30 men that control an NHL franchise than by hearing it from one of the men that has been in that position.

That is precisely what Jason Farris’ groundbreaking new book, Behind the Moves: NHL General Managers Tell How Winners Are Built, accomplishes. Farris, who is currently the Executive Vice President of Business Operations and Development for the Dallas Stars, explains purpose of his book in his introduction: “paint the picture of what it’s like to be a part of, and operate within, the community of NHL general managers.” And he does that just perfectly.

Unfortunately, many people see the title of the publication and assume that the book, which sells for $99.95 (and $139.95 for the deluxe version) only at NHLGMs.com, is the recipe for how to build a Stanley Cup champion. But fortunately for Farris and his readers, he paints a beautiful picture, showing that building a successful NHL team is not simply a recipe that involves a trade, a draft pick, and a free agent signing. It varies per team, person, and situation, and the magic of the book is his ability to present so many different views of the GM position, without ever claiming that any way is right or wrong. Through his five-part book, he runs through every General Manager that has led a team to the Stanley Cup final since 1967, including Serge Savard, Pierre Lacroix, Brian Burke, Stan Bowman, and Ken Holland, along with many others in the industry that have been involved in the sport for decades.

The book’s five parts include two-to-four page features on each of the aforementioned GMs, armed with hilarious anecdotes about our favorite players and coaches; challenges of being a GM (including getting hired, dealing with players, coaches, ownership, agents, and the media, building a team, making trades, and even some espionage); an all-time NHL GM roster, and 16 pages of statistical charts that would make any scholar proud.

Many hockey fans have barked at the pricey-ness of the book, as it runs for five times what a normal book would cost. However, the work took many years to put together, with Farris travelling over 60,000 miles, recording over 120 hours of interviews with scores of hockey men. It is a work that, when read straight through, will occupy hours of your day in a blink of an eye.

The meat of the book is made up of a collection of quotes from the men interviewed, and only a small part of the book is written in typical narration form. Personally, this was more favorable, as you felt the GM was speaking directly to you, rather than a diluted collection of article that many books such as this can become. Farris does an incredible job of organizing the book so that you feel you are sitting one-on-one with each mastermind, picking their brain as he did.

I would recommend this book to everyone, but with the price so high, many would be unwilling to do so. If you’re just looking for a casual hockey read, the price sticker might be the reason that you stay away. But with the price in mind, I would especially recommend this book to those that are very serious about their knowledge of the NHL industry, those in the media, or even those that have a serious dream of entering NHL management one day. If it’s something you have a serious interest in, I can guarantee that there will never be another book like it.

Get more information on the book: http://nhlgms.com
Buy the book at http://www.circanow.com/ProductDetail.aspx?ID=115

Dean
M.Ed (Coaching)
Ch.P.C. (Chartered Professional Coach)
Game Intelligence Training
"Great education depends on great teaching."

[hockeygod]

Cold A Long Time: An Alpine Mystery:
Whatever happened to Duncan MacPherson?

Gregg Drinnan, Taking Note, Sunday, May 13, 2012

When author John Leake set out to tell the story of the disappearance of Duncan MacPherson, it is doubtful that his intention was to write a love story.

But that is exactly what he penned with Cold A Long Time: An Alpine Mystery.

Oh, this isn’t a love story of the Erich Segal or Harlequin Romance variety.

Rather, it is the story of the love between a mother and her son, and it is unlike any such story you will have read before now.

MacPherson, a native of Saskatoon, was a terrific defenceman through three seasons (1983-86) with his hometown Blades. In his third season, he had 64 points and 147 penalty minutes in 70 games. Yes, he could play on the power play; yes, he had his teammates’ backs.

The New York Islanders liked this good, honest hockey player enough that they took him with the 20th overall selection in the NHL’s 1984 draft.

MacPherson never got to the NHL, however, and after four mostly injury-plagued seasons in the minors, his contract wasn’t renewed and he looked overseas.

In the early summer of 1989, MacPherson agreed to coach the Dundee Tigers, a team in Scotland owned by Ron Dixon, a big talker who also had ties to the WHL (he had been involved in the ownership of the New Westminster Bruins and Tri-City Americans).

However, before reporting to the Tigers, MacPherson chose to do some travelling in Europe.

On Aug. 4, 1989, MacPherson visited George Pesut, a former Blades star, who was in Nuremberg, Germany. MacPherson called home and said he would phone again in 10 days.

That phone call never came.

On Aug. 8, 1989, MacPherson left the home of Roger Kortko, another former Blades star, in Fuessen, Germany, and headed south into Austria.

None of his friends or family heard from him again.

In Saskatoon, Lynda MacPherson, Duncan’s mother, felt something was wrong as early as Aug. 11, 1989. That was the night she awoke from a deep sleep and found herself screaming.

She and her husband, Bob, driven by Lynda’s undying love for her son, would spend the next 14 years working to find out what had happened.

Duncan’s corpse was discovered on July 18, 2003.

Even after that, the MacPhersons, spearheaded by Lynda’s bulldogedness and her driving need to learn what had happened, spent another seven-plus years pushing, pulling and grinding away as they attempted to get to the truth.

All told, the MacPhersons would spend more than 20 years on the trail of what had happened. They used up a lot of their retirement savings, most of their energy and about a third of their lives as they fought to find out what had happened to their son, who was 23 years of age that summer of 1989.

Duncan, as it turned out, had stopped at the Stubai Glacier, a major recreation area outside Innsbruck, Austria, for a snowboarding experience. It was there that he was last seen and where the car he had been driving was found on Sept. 20, 1989. The car, a red Opel, had been sitting in a parking lot at the glacier for about six weeks without anyone noticing it or, at least, without anyone reporting it to the authorities.

Strange?

That was only the beginning of the story, one that would be filled with untruths and obfuscation and a whole lot of people talking in circles for a long, long time.

At one point, before even the red Opel had been discovered, the MacPhersons visited the Canadian Consulate in Munich in the hopes of getting some help. An official there told a receptionist: “I don’t care how you do it, just get rid of those people.”

And then there was the official at the Canadian Embassy in Vienna who told them: “I think you and your family should get on with your lives. Life is for the living.”

That was just as the MacPherson’s odyssey was beginning, about 14 years before their son's body was even found.
Little did authorities in Austria and in various Canadian government agencies understand that you simply could not get between this mother and her need to find out what had happened to her son.

Leake is an American writer who lived in Austria for 10 years. It was that connection that attracted the MacPhersons to him when they were looking for someone they hoped would investigate their story and then turn it into a book.

Through Leake, the MacPhersons came to understand the importance of the Stubai Glacier to the economic viability of that area of Austria and how there would seem to have been a coverup involving the death of their son.

To provide more details, would be to spoil what is a solid and heart-breaking read. But here is a hint of what went on — authorities indicated to the MacPhersons that Duncan’s body had been found in a crevasse in an area that was out of bounds to area skiers and snowboarders; in truth, the body was found in the middle of a ski slope, about 25 metres from a tow lift.

Near the end of this book, Lynda tells Leake: “You may think I’m boasting, John. But I’m not afraid of anyone.”

It turns out that Duncan once suggested to Lynda, a smallish woman, that because of her size, or lack of it, she should perhaps work at being a little less confrontational.

“And I told him that size doesn’t make the man,” Lynda said.

Or, in this case, the woman.

Because as much as this book details the quest to learn what happened to Duncan MacPherson, it is just as much the story of Lynda’s love for her son, and how that love kept driving her on a search for the truth.

“To cease looking for him seemed like abandoning him, which was unspeakable,” Leake notes, adding “ ‘Don’t give up mom,’ she imagined him saying, and she knew that if it had been the other way around, he would never have given up trying to find her.”

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Leake has said that 25 per cent of the proceeds from the sale of the book will go to Lynda and Bob MacPherson. The book is available right here.

http://www.coldalongtime.com/products/cold-a-long-time-an-alpine-mystery

It’s worth noting that Cold A Long Time won a bronze medal in the True Crime category of the 16th annual Independent Publisher Book Awards.

And right here is a trailer for Cold A Long Time, as narrated by Bill Paxton.

http://vimeo.com/41506266

As well, there is a website right here that is dedicated to Cold A Long Time.

http://www.coldalongtime.com/

I guarantee that two things will happen as you read this book — you will shake your head in disbelief on more than one occasion, and you will wipe more than one tear off your cheeks.

This is a memorable book.

Dean
M.Ed (Coaching)
Ch.P.C. (Chartered Professional Coach)
Game Intelligence Training
"Great education depends on great teaching."

[hockeygod]

Good Books

Daniel Coyle, The Talent Code blog, May 10th, 2012

I was flipping through The Art of Fielding the other day (which is super-great, and just out in paperback). It’s about a few seasons in the life of a small-college baseball team and its unlikely star, Henry Skrimshander.

I was struck by how accurately and beautifully author Chad Harbach depicts the way a person grows their skills: the mix of obsession and focus and crazy love, the immeasurable power of deep repetition, how people really think and act as they work together to develop their talents.

For instance:

Baseball was an art, but to excel at it you had to become a machine. It didn’t matter how beautifully you performed SOMETIMES, what you did on your best day, how many spectacular plays you made. You weren’t a painter or a writer–you didn’t work in private and discard your mistakes, and it wasn’t just your masterpieces that counted.

Or this:

He already knew he could coach. All you had to do was look at each of your players and ask yourself: What story does this guy wish someone would tell him about himself? And then you told the guy that story.

You get the idea. The point is that The Art of Fielding takes us deep inside the process of growing talent in the same way that Moby Dick takes us deep inside the process of 19th-century whaling.

The other point is that, a lot of other books do the same. I think it’d be interesting, and maybe useful, to see if we could compile a running list — call it the “Talent Code Book Club.” The books could be fiction or nonfiction, about music or business or chess or painting; they could be written from a coach or teacher’s point of view or that of a kid — it doesn’t matter, so long as it takes us inside and leaves us with some fresh insights about what it means to try to get better.

A few that come to mind:

Born Standing Up, by Steve Martin
The Game, by Ken Dryden
On Writing, by Stephen King
Practicing, by Glenn Kurtz
Life, by Keith Richards
Among Schoolchildren, by Tracy Kidder

What other books — or even movies — should be on this list? I’d love to hear your suggestions.

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Nice post,after all books are a mans best friends …

1)Jonathan Livingston Seagull
2)Lance Armstrong Biography
3)coach carter (movie)
4)The Power of a habit

I’d say “the Art of Learning” by Josh Waitzkin, and “Mastery” by George Leonard.

Movies – “Chariots of Fire” immediately comes to mind.

I will also suggest The Art of Learning and Mastery. Especially the latter.

The Inner Game of Tennis, by Timothy Gallwey

My Favourites
Movies
Dragon-The Bruce Lee Story
Coach Carter.
Tennis-Winning Ugly Brad Gilbert

Glad to see The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin is already there.
Two other favorites of mine from teacher’s perspective is is Marval Collins Way – Marval Collins and Civia Tamarkin and You have’t taught until they’ve learnt – Swen Nater & Ronal Gallimore.
Born to Run – Christopher McDougall is beautiful and poetic in it’s recognition of what it takes to be an unbelievable distance runner.
Great by Choice – Jim Collins for business.
Mindset – Carol S. Dweck is a must as it really does break-down the mindset needed to approach mistakes, learning and life if you’re going to develop talent.
Two other books that for me have helped guide me closer to my goal of self-mastery. Which I sort of think of as the talent of being human. Is the Art of Possibility – Rosmund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander and takes us inside the world of music and people. Benjamin is a conductor. Another one is Switch – Chip & Dan Heath. So excited to see other’s suggestions. Movies that I think of immediately are Mr Holland’s Opus and The Greatest Game Ever Played (a 2005 biographical sports film based on the early life of golf champion Francis Ouimet.).

How could I forget… Teach like your hairs on Fire – Ralf Esquith.

Love this topic too and agree about The art of fielding, having just finished it I thought many times about deliberate practice etc. A few books that I enjoyed relating to this are:
The gift of speed by Steven Carroll. Being an aussie this book about a young boys obsession with cricket and the visiting west Indian cricket is beautiful.
Better by Atul Gwande a surgeons notes on performance.
Dream golf by Stephen Goodwin. The making of Brandon dunes. A man and his teams obsession with completing a masterpiece.

Movie – Bobbie Ficher against the world

Outliers (malcom gladwell)
Rafa. My Story (John Carlin)
Wooden. A lifetime of observations and reflections on and off The court. (John Wooden and Steve Jamison)

Bounce – Matthew Syed
8 To Be Great – Richard St John
Outliers – Malcolm Gladwell

My offering would be Jim Collins’ Great by Choice. Nine years of research went into finding the common elements of seven different companies from seven different industries who thrived despite great uncertainty, chaos and luck–some good, some bad for their peer companies but not for them. The principles they had in common work superbly for both organizations and individuals.

The Servant, by James C. Hunter, is a gem on leadership. It should be part of any collection.

Two to Start… The Music Lesson By: Victor Wooten and Imagine: How Creativity Works By: Jonah Lehrer

The Way of Baseball by Shawn Green

Dean
M.Ed (Coaching)
Ch.P.C. (Chartered Professional Coach)
Game Intelligence Training
"Great education depends on great teaching."

[Tim Taylor]

Inning by Inning: A Portrait of a Coach

http://www.amazon.com/Inning-A-Portrait-Coach/dp/B004QFSKRU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1337727344&sr=8-1

Profile of University of Texas baseball coach Augie Garrido, the winningest coach in NCAA history.

Warning: Does contain strong language

[Erik Anderson]

Thanks to everyone for your contributions. I've been following for a couple years and well, just became a member today.

I just finished Leave No Doubt by Mike Babcock. A little bummed when it arrived at the size of the book, a short 137 small pages. BUT, I really enjoyed the content. Short and straight on, just like the he speaks on the bench with Pierre.

Erik

[hockeygod]

I am waiting to read Mike's book – still hasn't come into the library yet!

Thanks for the recommendation Eanderson!

Dean
M.Ed (Coaching)
Ch.P.C. (Chartered Professional Coach)
Game Intelligence Training
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