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Leadership and Golf (creating Organizational Alignment) SWING to BALANCE | 
 enlarge | Authors: Thomas K Wentz, William S Wentz
Publisher: Corporate Performance Systems
Category: Book
List Price: $22.95
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Rating:  26 reviews
Sales Rank: 1417483
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 181
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 5.9 x 0.8
ISBN: 0966843517
EAN: 9780966843514
ASIN: 0966843517
Publication Date: April 1, 2002
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Book Description
Leadership & Golf is about the strategic ability to transform the way your business operates and competes in the new business environment. The leadership challenge is to create the muscle memory of a game many people have never played before and do it fast. Leadership & Golf is a story about 16 executives of a company who need to change, have tried to change, and remain handicapped by the muscle memory of their old game. In the story, they participate in a unique business Simulation on the golf course that helps them understand how to translate the simulated experience into a new way of doing business. Leadership & Golf is about the enormous economic impact of relaesing human potential in the work environment. In a startling was, the golf course experience reveals the unique link between organizational culture and financial results. Organizational alignment becomes a powerful competitive advantage. Whether you like golf or despise the game, you will relate to the participants as they challenge the thinking of the old game. The victory of "trust your swing" is an emotional experience that everyone will enjoy.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 21 more reviews...
Everyone is Important December 15, 2006
Tom's book is a must read for all who manage more than one person.
Great companies are built by those who lead by example and teach others how to lead. Swing To Balance teaches that those who feel they can do it all will do more, more easily and better, if they help others to succeed. The game of golf is THE metaphor for life!!
This book is well written and and will make any airplane trip seem to short. Enjoy.
 Change your golf swing - Change your life December 5, 2006
Tom Wentz has written a remarkable book that provides as meny life lessons as it does golf tips. An accomplished golfer himself, Tom applies the principles of a "balanced" swing to keeping your life balanced both professionaly and personally. The concept of "Effortless Effectiveness" show the importance of keeping all the moving parts of your golf swing working together to hit the ball straight and long. It underscores why trying too hard seldom works.
I recommend this book for anyone who wants to straighten out their drives as well as their lives.
Recreating your Swing and your Enterprise December 2, 2006
Most of us enjoy golf and are constantly trying to fix some aspect of our game. We adjust the grip to correct a slice or alter our stance a bit to fix something else. But adjustments to a fundamentally flawed swing will never result in a great game.
Tom invites us to fundamentally rethink the swing. He's analyzed numerous PGA Tour players and distilled the common elements of their swings into a few steps that allow a golfer to visualize and execute a fundamentally sound swing. Without all the gimmicks many of us rely on.
But in the process he confronts us with a disturbing reality - most of us approach our professional lives in the same way. We are constantly trying to improve our situations by fixing problems rather than determining what we want to become and structuring our enterprise to create it. Tom uses this very interesting allegory to demonstrate how we can all make the same fundamental transition in our professional lives.
In fairness, I've not only read the book but also seen it successfully applied in golf and in real businesses. So I have no trouble endorsing it.
But will your golf improve? Well, Tom took my novice spouse from no ability to her first successful nine holes in about four hours. It took me much longer to improve because I clung to several stubborn habits that needed to be shed.
As always, it depends on what you're willing to give up give up to get what you really want. Start with an open attitude and you can create the swing - and the enterprise - you really want.
Leadership and Golf November 21, 2006
Leadership ang Golf delivers an intersting perspective into the challenges of management and company change by comparing to the challenges of the golf swing. Being both a manager for a company that is making the move from mass production to mass "customization" and a high hanidcapped golfer; it was easy for me to realate to the lessons of Wentz.
Following the lessons of Swing to Balance, our company is certainly on the right path to continued growth and success as well as on-line with our company purpose. My golf swing...well that's another story.
Swing to Balance - a great metaphor that works in business November 21, 2006
There is always great ways to map the knowledge and skills of the athletic arena with business. Execution is key. Using the imagery of the golf swing, Mr. Wentz makes a great connection to business. A short read, but effective.
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