Between the Stripes: A Leader's Playbook for Earning Your Stripes Part II

by John Laurie

Overview

"An official's sense of humor is very important. It is his ability to put himself in the stands as a fan and laugh at his own mistakes." - John Laurie John Laurie, Ph.D. began his officiating career over 40 years ago. He has officiated at every level including over 25 years as a referee in the Big 8 and Big XII Football Conferences. He served as president of the Football Officials Associations of both conferences and is a member of the Kansas Collegiate Officials Hall of Fame. He officiated as a referee at numerous college championships including the Rose Bowl, Sugar Bowl, and Fiesta Bowl.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781491800270
Publisher:	AuthorHouse
Publication date:	08/14/2013
Pages:	376
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.84(d)

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BETWEEN THE STRIPES

A LEADER'S PLAYBOOK FOR EARNING YOUR STRIPES PART II

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By JOHN LAURIE

AuthorHouse

Copyright © 2013 Dr. John Laurie
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-4918-0027-0

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INTRODUCTION

BETWEEN THE STRIPES: A LEADER'S PLAYBOOK FOR EARNING YOUR STRIPES PART II

This book has obviously been written for those who officiate, umpire, referee and judge sporting events. It has also been purposely designed for leaders in business, other professions and avocations to encourage "thinking outside the box" while establishing, reviewing or modifying their philosophy of leadership. If you look at this book only as through the eyes of a sports official, the "covers" may be too far apart ... so read between the lines!

Hopefully this book will help trap you into doing your own thinking for developing, re-thinking or re-framing your own leadership style. In other words, the author is challenging you to personalize your own style of leadership and make it work for you. The author also believes that many of you will be more focused in your philosophy of leadership and rewarded if you apply some of these thoughts and concepts to your own life style.

For the officials who read this book, a special suggestion! This book should be reviewed (for sure) three times during your career: at the beginning, the middle and the end. The opportunity to reflect on these thoughts will present a different perspective each time around. For sports officials, it will enhance your concepts of what the best officials and crew leaders do in order to be successful.

There really wasn't much to writing this book! All the author had to do was think of every good and bad game, every good and poor game officiated that he was a part of or had observed over the past forty years and sit down at a computer. Another way to look at it is that you are not paying for this book as the author did but only the cost of the printing!

The author would like to answer the question that some may ask regarding why he used the format of quotations to present his point of view. As a former school teacher, coach, official, school administrator and professor for over forty years, he observed the power of using quotations to communicate in the school house and on the football field was very effective in motivating people.

For over thirty years the author has collected quotations from a wide variety of sources including books, newspapers, radio, TV, movies, Internet, clinics, conferences, casual conversations, and any other place one could find pithy expressions that could be transformed into insightful and/or provocative thoughts about leadership and sports officials.

The author found quotations to be a powerful tool to motivate his football crews individually and collectively, to improve their expectations, to set goals and become more effective officials. It will become very obvious to the readers that the author's comments will not tell you something you don't already know, but hopefully will broaden your scope of understanding some of the concepts of leadership and officiating shared in this book. I also realize that many of these quotations would be much more believed if you were told Ben Franklin said it first!

This book represents the fourth in a series written in this format style. The first is MANAGING THE GAME, the second is BETWEEN THE STRIPES: ZANY ZEBRA ZINGERS and the third is BETWEEN THE STRIPES: A LEADER'S PLAYBOOK FOR EARNING YOUR STRIPES PART I. The author has also published a book with over seventy stories about his officiating career in the Big 8 and Bit XII Football Conference titled WHY I DON'T BOO OFFICIALS.
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