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- Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
- Kategorie: Fachliteratur
- Serie: Jon Gordon
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2021
Learn to live and lead with enthusiasm and optimism, impact your team, and transform your culture In Row the Boat, Minnesota Golden Gophers Head Coach P.J. Fleck and bestselling author Jon Gordon deliver an inspiring message about what you can achieve when you approach life with a never-give-up philosophy. The book shows you how to choose enthusiasm and optimism as your guiding lights instead of being defined by circumstances and events outside of your control. Discover how to put the three key components of Row the Boat into practice in your life: * The Oar: The energy. Only you can dictate whether your oar is in the water or whether you take it out and decide not to use it. * The Boat: The sacrifice. The more you give, serve, and make your life about helping others, the better and more fulfilled your life will be, and the bigger your boat gets. * The Compass: The direction. The vision you have for your life and the people you surround yourself with help create the dream of where you want to go. Perfect for athletes, coaches, business leaders, and anyone else who hopes to squeeze a little more enjoyment and productivity out of life, Row the Boat will propel leaders, teams, and organizations to greater heights than they have ever reached before.
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Table of Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Man Behind the Boat
The Hard Way
Make the Most of Your Opportunities
Hard Work, Opportunity, and Fate
Chapter 2: Questions
Chapter 3: The Origin of Row the Boat
Pain and Purpose
Row the Boat
An Opportunity to Row the Boat
Chapter 4: The Philosophy of Row the Boat
Future
Present
Past
Chapter 5: Rowing the Boat at WMU
A Difficult Task
The Big Dig
Pouring the Foundation
Creating Our Framework
The Windows Year
Chapter 6: The Three Key Components of Row the Boat
The Oar
The Boat
The Compass
Chapter 7: A Bigger Opportunity and Challenge
Chapter 8: Rowing the Boat at the University of Minnesota
A Culture in Need of Change
The Harder Right
Another Year One: The Dig
Setting the Standard
A Culture of Rowers
A Roller Coaster Season: The Foundation
Rest-OAR-Ation: The Framework
Chapter 9: A Wave of Change
Chapter 10: Rowing through Adversity
Responding to Adversity
Compass of Faith
The Ultimate Response
Chapter 11: Beyond Football
Chapter 12: The Impact of Row the Boat Beyond Football
Helping Families Stay Together
Rowing Together
Chapter 13: Rowing into the Future
Chapter 14: Where Do You Row the Boat from Here?
Make Today Better—Change Your Best
Be the Reason
Keep Rowing
Other Resources
Other Books by Jon Gordon
The Energy Bus
The No Complaining Rule
Training Camp
The Shark and the Goldfish
Soup
The Seed
One Word
The Positive Dog
The Carpenter
The Hard Hat
You Win in the Locker Room First
Life Word
The Power of Positive Leadership
The Power of a Positive Team
The Coffee Bean
Stay Positive
The Garden
Relationship Grit
Stick Together
The Energy Bus for Kids
Thank You and Good Night
The Hard Hat for Kids
One Word for Kids
The Coffee Bean for Kids
End User License Agreement
Guide
Cover
Table of Contents
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Row the Boat
A Never-Give-Up Approach to Lead with Enthusiasm and Optimism and Improve Your Team and Culture
JON GORDON
P.J. FLECK
Copyright © 2021 by Jon Gordon and P.J. Fleck. All rights reserved.
Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.Published simultaneously in Canada.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:
Names: Gordon, Jon, 1971- author. | Fleck, P. J., 1980- author.
Title: Row the boat : a never-give-up approach to lead with enthusiasm and optimism and improve your team and culture / Jon Gordon, P. J. Fleck.
Description: Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley, [2021]
Identifiers: LCCN 2021010915 (print) | LCCN 2021010916 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119766292 (hardback) | ISBN 9781119766315 (adobe pdf) | ISBN 9781119766308 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Fleck, P. J., 1980- | Leadership. | Perseverance (Ethics) | Football—Coaching—Philosophy.
Classification: LCC HD57.7 .G666743 2021 (print) | LCC HD57.7 (ebook) | DDC 658.4/092—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021010915
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021010916
Cover art: © SHUTTERSTOCK | KELVIN REYNOSOCover design: PAUL MCCRTHY
To my children, may you always see the good in everyone and dream BIG! Know that the dream is the journey.
To our players (current and former), may you never be a better football player than you are a person.
To our staff (current and former), thank you for always making our culture look so good.
To my wife, Heather, thank you for not allowing me to give up on R.T.B. Your strength, integrity, patience, and forgiveness inspire me daily.
To the children in the hospital, Row the Boat.
—P.J.
Introduction
I've followed P.J. Fleck's coaching career for years, ever since he built the Western Michigan University (WMU) football team into a national powerhouse. I always admired his positive energy and passion and could tell he was a great culture builder and leader. I had also heard stories about him from Brad Black, whose company, HumanEx Ventures, performed the talent search and evaluation of head coaching candidates for WMU. Brad recommended to the leaders of WMU that they hire P.J. Fleck, despite his lack of qualifications, lack of head coaching experience, and unimpressive resume. Brad's assessment tools, used to evaluate people and predictive leadership performance, told him that P.J. would shine as a head coach and build a winning culture and team, and that's exactly what happened.
After proving himself as a successful head coach at Western Michigan, taking the program from 1–11 to 13–1 during his four years, P.J. Fleck was hired as the head coach of the University of Minnesota football team during a tumultuous time. Once again, P.J. turned around a program in need of a cultural change—academically, athletically, and socially—and built a winning culture both on and off the field. He created a team that won 11 games for the first time since 1904, achieved numerous academic records, and became a program that was more about serving and giving than just winning games.
After the season I invited P.J. to be on my podcast. One of my questions was about how he got into coaching. After the podcast I asked him to share more about his journey. The tale he told me was more than a story of his entry into coaching. It was about the man himself and what led him to become the kind of coach—and the kind of person—that he is.
—Jon Gordon
Proceeds from this book will help support the Fleck Family Fund at the University of Minnesota’s Masonic Children’s Hospital. For more information about Row the Boat and/or to support the foundation, please visit RowtheBoat.org.
Chapter 1The Man Behind the Boat
P.J. Fleck
The Hard Way
Growing up as a runt on the block always seemed like an uphill challenge. Little did I know that the “underdog” way of life was paving the way for what I would need to succeed in a career that humbles and challenges the proudest and strongest of men. The chip on my shoulder started when I was young and eventually turned into a crack. I didn't feel I had to prove to anyone else that I could achieve my own dreams; rather, it was more that I had to prove to myself that I was everything I said I wanted to be.
I have always been referred to as the “King of the Toos.” Too small, too short, too slow, too young, too inexperienced, and on and on—any kind of “too” you can think of, I've probably heard it. This kind of label makes people do two different things: run and forget, or play and prove. I chose to play and prove. My dad, Phil, always knew I was going to be an underdog with an undersized frame who would have to prove my worth on the sports field. My dad is 5-foot-5 and was a boxer in his youth. Whenever I would come home from shooting hoops or throwing the baseball or any other athletic endeavor, he would ask, “Are you done?” When I told him yes, he would reply, “Well, that's fine, but don't forget, there is always someone out there taking one more rep than you just did.” Early on he was instilling in me that my path would not be easy and I would have to work to achieve success. He knew I had very big dreams, and he prepared my mind to think, focus, and respond the right way.
How did he do this? Well, when I was growing up you didn't have to show your birth certificate, fingerprints, and bloodwork just to prove your age. (I'm joking, but you get the idea.) If there was an 8-year-old baseball team, everyone just assumed all members of the team were 8. They took your word for it. My dad made sure that I was always “playing up,” so when I was 8, I played on the 10-year-old team. When I was 10, I played on the 11- or 12-year-old team. I learned at an early age that there would always be people out there with an easier path than me. I saw how they were more skilled, more physically mature, bigger, stronger, and faster. However, the skill they possessed was only part of the equation. Being younger and a late bloomer, I was going to have to find other ways to succeed and win. I started to value the “talent” of a person at an early age more than just the “skill.”
Knowing that I wasn't the most skilled on the field and being smaller, shorter, and slower than most of the other kids on my team and in the league, I recognized that talent was much more than physical ability and stature. I discovered that talent (the how, heart, spirit, creativity, unconquerable will, effort, soul, passion, ability to be a great teammate, and refuse-to-lose mentality) were a big part of success and who I was, and I could use my talent to my advantage. I had to play smarter, work harder, and find ways to do it better for longer. My game had to be different. I didn't have a choice if I wanted to succeed. People often say that talent is something you are born with and skill is something you develop. However, I believe “skill” is what you were born with based on genes from your parents and “talent” is the unmeasurable force that allows your skill to develop into something really special based on all the experiences in your life.
Not only did my dad teach that the talent of a person mattered the most, but he also made me see that I could connect my teammates and friends and other boys who lived on my block. Even though I was the youngest on the block, I wasn't afraid to talk to anyone. I was very confident and kind as a young person and saw the good in everyone. I was always taught that there is so much more good in a person than there is bad, so find the good, bring it out, give others the benefit of the doubt. Judge those on how they treat you and stand up for others who don't stand up for themselves.
