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You Can Observe A Lot By Watching: What I've Learned About Teamwork From the Yankees and Life
By: Yogi Berra , Dave H. KaplaneBook Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Imprint: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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"The most valuable team player in sports" shows you what "teamwork" really means
What does it take to be a real team player, especially in a society that glorifies selfishness and a corporate culture that often uses "team player" as a buzzword but rewards only the showboaters and prima donnas? Well, You Can Observe a Lot by Watching. In this happy and hilarious guide to teamwork, sportsmanship, and winning, Yogi Berra draws on the timeless wisdom handed down by example from ballplayers who came before him to inspire you to make the right choices and become not only a better team player—at sports, at work, and in life—but a better person.
Filled with colorful stories from his life and career, not to mention the down-to-earth wit and insight that Yogi fans love, You Can Observe a Lot by Watching shows you how to make a bad team good and a good team great.
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| Title of eBook: You Can Observe A Lot By Watching: What I've Learned About Teamwork From the Yankees and Life | |
| Release Date: 04-30-2008 | |
| Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. |
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You Can Observe A Lot By Watching: What I've Learned About Teamwork From the Yankees and Life
Chapter One
Team PlayerAll I know is we were all teammates, team-first guys, because the team good came before all.
YOU HEAR THE WORDS "team player" all the time, just not in my time. You never heard it on our Yankees teams back when. Never heard of a go-to guy, either. Or someone throwing someone under the bus. Maybe we talked different in the 1950s and '60s, I don't know.
This was before e-mails, cell phones, and this blogging thing. This was before people started comparing sports and business all the time. I don't remember coaches and bosses being control freaks, or managers being micromanagers. When we played there was a bullpen, not a bullpen by committee. To me "at the end of the day" simply meant going to bed. We took risks without having to think outside the box. Now if someone doesn't get with the program or doesn't get on the same page, there's words for that person, too: "Not a team player." I take that to mean a person who doesn't play in the team spirit and is a potential pain in the neck.
Today's sayings are different. People always think I make up my own sayings, but they just come out. I don't know I say them. If you asked me to describe our old Yankees teams, the ones I played on from the late 1940s to the early '60s, what would I say? I'd say we were pretty good. We won an awful lot. In today's business talk we'd be called a high-performance work organization.
All I know is we were all teammates, team-first guys, because the team good came before all. I think it was a behavioral thing, what you learn as a kid. Those skills about getting along on the playground translat
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