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Author Kapitulik, Eric, author.

Title The program : lessons from elite military units for creating and sustaining high performance leaders and teams / Eric Kapitulik, Jake MacDonald. [O'Reilly electronic resource]

Publication Info. Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [2019]
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Description 1 online resource (ix, 276 pages)
Summary "Active business capitalizes on popular motivational category: The Program combines military experience and motivation like popular books Make Your Bed, The Way of the SEAL, Team of Teams, and Extreme Ownership among many others. Author Plan for Moving Books Through Speaking Engagements and Keynotes: Eric Kapitulik and his team of distinguished, retired military veterans and former varsity athletes speak in front of approximately 150 sports teams and departments and corporations a year. He will either give the book to attendees or drive sales to retail around these events. PR:Eric Kapitulik will hire a marketing firm at publication to promote the book. The company has a database of close to 10,000 prospects and clients who can't afford to work with them, but continuously ask about a book as a more cost-effective way of learning The Program. Kapitulik participates in athletic and corporate podcasts with audiences totaling more than 400,000 listeners. ESPN correspondent Marty Smith who has a weekly TV show, podcast and twitter following of more than 250,000 has already agreed to feature the author on all three"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents Introduction; Achieving the Ultimate Victory; Surviving a Catastrophic Crash; Privileged to Be Part of the Team; Section I: Creating a Championship Culture; Chapter 1: The Fundamentals of a Championship Culture; Chapter 2: Determining "Best"; Chapter 3: Defining "Best"; Chapter 4: Core Means Core!; Chapter 5: Recruiting and Hiring "Best"; Chapter 6: Talent Still Matters; Chapter 7: Determining Goals; Chapter 8: When You Face a Hairpin Turn in the Road; Chapter 9: Determining Standards; Chapter 10: A Commitment to Goals and Standards
Chapter 11: Hold "Best" AccountableSection II: Teammates; Chapter 12: A Special Operations Teammate; Chapter 13: Meet the Standards: Be a Thumb Teammate; Chapter 14: Do Your Job! Agreed, Kinda . . .; Chapter 15: Winning Still Matters; Chapter 16: Great Teammates Hold One Another Accountable; Chapter 17: We Have Seen the Enemy; Chapter 18: The Price of Not Holding Teammates Accountable; Chapter 19: The Benefit of Team Accountability; Chapter 20: Nice and Kind; Chapter 21: How to Be Kind; An Inverse Relation Between Timing and Tone and Volume; Be Positive and Be Specific!
Chapter 22: Wash Your Hands! Developing a Culture of Accountability; Chapter 23: Do Not "Lead by Example"; Chapter 24: Consistency Builds Trust; Chapter 25: Friend or Teammate?; Section III: Team Leaders; Chapter 26: Wild-Goose Chase; Chapter 27: What Is and Isn't Leadership, and Who Are and Aren't Leaders?; Chapter 28: The Mission; Part 1: Define It; Part 2: Communicate It; Part 3: Words on a Rock; Chapter 29: The First Standard of a Leader: Accomplish the Mission; Chapter 30: Leaders Ask "How?"; Chapter 31: The Little Things Take Care of the Big Things
Chapter 32: The Second Standard of a Leader: Take Care of Your Teammates; Chapter 33: Mission First, People Always; Chapter 34: Controlled and Uncontrolled Environments; Chapter 35: Developing Leaders; Leadership Means Accountability; Start with Small Responsibilities; The Process of Developing Leaders; Chapter 36: The Power of Delegation; Chapter 37: Leadership Is a Contact Sport; Chapter 38: The Roles of a Leader; Part 1: Building Esprit de Corps; Part 2: Intentionally Inverting the Pyramid; Section IV: Be Tough; Chapter 39: Mount Everest: Facing the Challenge
Chapter 40: The Case for Physical Fitness; Chapter 41: Defining Toughness; Chapter 42: A Light Switch, Not a Dial; Chapter 43: Toughness: A Learned Trait; Chapter 44: Developing Physical Toughness; Grind; The Upside of Deprivation; Train How and Where You Will Compete; Chapter 45: What Is Mental Toughness, and When Do We Need It?; Chapter 46: Don't Rise to the Occasion; Chapter 47: Be Passionate, Not Emotional; Chapter 48: Choose a Positive Attitude; Chapter 49: Inoculate Against Stress; Chapter 50: Go or No Go?; Chapter 51: Go!; Chapter 52: The Death Zone; Chapter 53: The Summit, but Not Mission Accomplishment; Chapter 54: Mission Accomplished.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Subject Motivation (Psychology)
Leadership.
Teams in the workplace.
Military administration -- Case studies.
Motivation
Leadership
Motivation (Psychologie)
Leadership.
Équipes de travail.
Administration militaire -- Études de cas.
Teams in the workplace
Motivation (Psychology)
Military administration
Leadership
Command of troops
Genre Case studies
Added Author MacDonald, Jake (Marine Corps officer), author.
Other Form: Print version: Kapitulik, Eric. Program. Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [2019] 9781119574309 (OCoLC)1078887050
ISBN 9781119574415 (ePub)
1119574412
111957451X
9781119574514 (electronic bk.)
(hardback)
Music No. EB00770106 Recorded Books
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