Leadership Lessons: In Life and the Business of Sports (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798316459681)

Sometimes it's just sports and sometimes sports truly is a metaphor for life. In Leadership Lessons: In Life and the Business of Sports, Bill Shumard distills the triumphs and difficult choices down to essential lessons for navigating both. Inhabiting Southern California's sports leadership landscape for over 40 years, (Dodgers, USC, a trio of Cal State Universities, Special Olympics Southern California), Bill has been a true champion of people and of underdogs. At the very core, you'll find an underlying recipe for simply doing the right thing, and if that doesn't work, how to own and learn from your mistakes. You'll come away with accessible, real-life lessons in sports and in life- laden with faith, gratitude and goodwill. Bill pays tribute to those who have guided him along the way and those who he has helped lift up to find out more about themselves. Sometimes nice guys do finish first.