Swing To Balance improves much more than just your drive | Leadership and Golf (creating Organizational...

A great golf and business lesson! | Leadership and Golf (creating Organizational Alignment) SWING to BALANCE | Thomas K Wentz, William S Wentz

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	• Leadership and Golf (creating Organizational Alignment) SWING to BALANCE Thomas K Wentz, William S Wentz Corporate Performance Systems, 2002 - 181 pages average customer review:based on 30 reviews view larger image
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Not just a business book

This book can change the way you think about your golf swing, but it can also change the way you view your company and the relationships within it. It is not your typical business book. A lot of golf success has to do with trusting the shot, your swing, the club, etc. This book illustrates how it isn't all that different in business and how you interact within the company to serve your clients and win business. Even if you are not a golfer, the golf portion of the book is highly entertaining. The personalities of the golfers are so vividly portrayed by Bill and Tom that you can see people at your own firm saying the same things and behaving the same way. I have always believed that golf is a good indication of how someone behaves outside the course, but this book really drives that point home. Now, if you are a golfer, I don't see how you can't improve through the clear and concise instruction that is laid out in the book. Only a couple of basic concepts, and if you can clear your mind and incorporate them you are going to see vast and rapid improvement. I only recently discovered that the concepts and thought processes even work with putting. It is a great read, keeps your interest and has been put together so that you can relate to the characters in the story. In the last week I have found people in our organization that have had Tom and Bill in for one of their sessions and what they told me sounded like the book: Same comments from the experienced golfers, same revelations from management, etc. Finding that out has intrigued me even more. Just give the first chapter a read and you will be hooked. Nearly everyone that I have given a copy to will at some point during a round of golf say "Swing to Balance", some have even said it during a particularly stressful situation at work. It is a great stress reliever in both situations.

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Swing To Balance improves much more than just your drive

Tom and Bill make a great team - on the golf course, of course, but even better with the writing of this book. Using the golf metaphor they show us that even the most seasoned golfers and businessmen can become better players, and more importantly, better leaders. I've read many business "novels", and to me, this book rates up with the best of them - including "The Goal". In fact, utilizing the techniques and information in the book will help get everyone, in an organization (especailly those playing with an orange ball) aligned and working together to ensure that "The Goal" is met. Swing to Balance has become integral to my vocabulary.

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A great golf and business lesson!

Let's be clear from the outset: I don't play golf. Never wanted to play golf. From all I've seen, I'd agree with Mark Twain that "golf is a good walk - spoiled!"

And yet. . . after reading this book I'm not so sure.

I picked it up because I help business leaders and managers bring out the best in themselves and their people, and hoped this approach would help. I'm now firmly convinced that it would! Wentz uses a golf simulation to give people a direct experience - not conceptually, but in their bodies and emotions - of why most organizations don't work and what they can do instead.

The book takes the saga of a group of real people (names changed, I assume!) that as a reader I came to care about to the point where I was actually in tears a couple of times. (Quite an accomplishment to create so MANY three-dimensional characters, and build that kind of caring in a BUSINESS book!) As we identify with them and their struggles, we learn at a deep level several essential lessons we've all heard but few have incorporated to the point where they LIVE them. Most important: be clear about and focus on where you want to end up, not just on what you're doing. And understand that in an organization, no one person can be successful alone or without making others successful. "Obvious?" Yes. Widely applied? NO! Critical to our success? Absolutely. As Wentz points out in the book, leadership and golf are perhaps the two most overtaught, underlearned human endeavors. This book may actually help change that.

The book works as a novel, as a metaphor, as a business book - even, I suspect, as a way to reduce your golf handicap significantly. I actually ended up tempted to go play golf! (And even more tempted to attend one of Tom and Bill Wentz's golf simulations. We'll see. . . )

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Swing to Balance, It is Just Fundamentals

I wish I could have gone through the golf simulation myself, but Tom and Bill do a great job of putting it on paper. After attending one of Tom's seminars, and reading Swing to Balance, the one word that comes to mind for me is authentic. There is no gimmick on the golf course, or in business, it is just fundamentals.

Everyone is Important

Tom's book is a must read for all who manage more than one person.
Great companies are built by those who lead by example and teach others how to lead. Swing To Balance teaches that those who feel they can do it all will do more, more easily and better, if they help others to succeed. The game of golf is THE metaphor for life!!
This book is well written and and will make any airplane trip seem to short. Enjoy.

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Leadership & Golf is about the strategic ability to transform the way your business operates and competes in the new business environment. The leadership challenge is to create the muscle memory of a game many people have never played before and do it fast.

Leadership & Golf is a story about 16 executives of a company who need to change, have tried to change, and remain handicapped by the muscle memory of their old game. In the story, they participate in a unique business Simulation on the golf course that helps them understand how to translate the simulated experience into a new way of doing business.

Leadership & Golf is about the enormous economic impact of relaesing human potential in the work environment. In a startling was, the golf course experience reveals the unique link between organizational culture and financial results. Organizational alignment becomes a powerful competitive advantage.

Whether you like golf or despise the game, you will relate to the participants as they challenge the thinking of the old game. The victory of "trust your swing" is an emotional experience that everyone will enjoy.

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