At the Helm: Business Lessons for Navigating Rough Waters - Hardcover

Isler, Peter

 
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Synopsis

America's Cup champion Peter Isler applies the lessons he learned at the helm to business in this powerful guide to achieving success and besting the competition.

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About the Author

Peter Isler was the top skipper on the professional racing circuit from 1986 to 1993, and the winner of two America's Cups. A featured America's Cup analyst in 1992 and 1995 on ESPN, he is currently an editor at large for <i>Sailing World</i> magazine. He regularly speaks on the strategies and lessons of sailing before business audiences.<br><br>Peter Economy is a highly successful business writer whose books <b>Consulting for Dummies</b> and <b>Managing for Dummies</b> have sold 200,000 copies.

From the Inside Flap

to lose. And what I really hate about it is that it takes exactly the same effort to lose as it does to win. So, if you're going to make that effort, why not make the effort to win?"<br>--Tom Whidden, three-time America's Cup winner, president of North Marine Group<br><br>America's Cup winner Peter Isler shows how the skills and strategies used in professional sailing apply equally well to competition, teamwork, and success in the world of business.<br><br>Some of the most prominent and successful CEOs and executives in America are sailors--and with good reason. In both business and sailing, only the best-led, best-trained, most highly motivated teams win. In <b>At the Helm</b>, two-time America's Cup winner Peter Isler translates the secrets of success in the fast-paced world of grand-prix sailboat racing into a series of specific lessons that managers and businesspeople can apply to their day-to-day jobs. In the world of business and sailing, building a successful "te

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ISBN 10:  0230639135 ISBN 13:  9780230639133
Publisher: New Central Book Agency Pvt Ltd, 2009
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