Though Sun Tzu's The Art of War was written 2,500 years ago, strategy is seen as a young discipline in business management. Over the last half to three-fourths of a century, strategy has carved its own niche in the larger business management realm. Strategy Huddle: Management Lessons from Sports draws out significant strategic management knowledge from twenty-seven different phenomena in diverse sports including soccer, basketball, marathon, boxing, chess and cricket. The practical applications of these strategies are shown through business case scenarios in this book. For new managers seeking to sharpen their strategic management concepts such as blue ocean, behavioural and network strategies as well as for strategic thinkers interested in understanding the deeper connections between strategy and sports, this book brings to the readers an enriching learning and strategic experience.

Most Christians are stuck in the huddle, focusing on our own needs and limiting our relationships with outsiders. Don Everts, Doug Schaupp and Val Gordon explain how our churches can become conversion communities, where evangelistic growth becomes the new normal and the whole community itself becomes a winsome, thriving witness to those around it.

If it happened in Minnesota sports in the last forty years, Dave Mona was there. Working the sports beat for print and radio, covering the big stories and the ones others missed, rubbing shoulders with the stars and introducing the rookies, Mona is a longtime fixture on the sports scene. Join Dave Mona as he revisits a lifetime of vignettes, each one a window onto Minnesota’s sports world. As he recounts his days reporting on the Twins and the Gophers, sparring with Sid Hartman on their Sports Huddle radio program, and preparing his award-winning pregame vignettes for Gopher football, Mona takes readers behind the scenes to meet celebrities and characters like Hartman, Billy Martin, Rod Carew, Dave Moore, Halsey Hall, Molly Ivins, and many more. A wonderful story of life around the locker room, his book is also a portrait of a remarkable personality and a fascinating aspect of Minnesota’s cultural world.

Lives are changed at the table. We were created for meaningful relationships, and Jesus commands us to love our neighbors as ourselves. Although building relationships requires intentionality, planning, time, and resources, it is a powerful way to love and serve others as Jesus himself modeled for us. In an interactive guide that contains two six-session series, Sherri DeWalt provides a road map for Christian women to create and launch a seed-scattering ministry of hospitality to their neighbors and friends. While detailing everything needed to host fun and engaging small groups in the home, DeWalt also shares ideas for holidays and special events, guided discussions on topics such as beauty, awe, and gratitude, and ideas for collaborative creative projects that help friendships flourish and faith deepen. Let’s Huddle equips Christian women to build a community of faith, friendship, and peace and share the gospel through creative projects, thoughtful conversations, and hospitality.

When Angel O’Malley is left penniless by her deceased father’s gambling debts, she is forced to sue pro football player Billy Burner for child support. Blindsided with a five-year-old daughter, he tackles fatherhood with the same commitment he gives to the game, but he has his eye on a bigger prize: Angel’s heart. She agrees to Billy’s plan to play house to ensure the new father makes no rookie mistakes. Though their passions burn hotter than ever they must overcome old betrayals, past hurts, and new insecurities if they are to prevent history from repeating itself. Can a long ago summer love turn into an everlasting one?

Sometimes in life, its necessary to step back and to refocus, to go back the huddlea center place for information gathered, distributed for action, and executed. In Get Back to Your Huddle author Richard A. Robinson uses the analogy of the huddle, most common in sporting events and in the workplace, to help you understand the power of self-forgiveness, of letting go, and of moving on from past events or thoughts that may hinder progress. Robinson explores the process of what it takes to get back to your huddle; its a thought process that unifies the spirit, mind, and body. He aligns the process with the Bible in a way that is open, honest, and truthful. Get Back to Your Huddle helps you become familiar with letting go of things that hold you down and to identify the thinking process of the harmful and destructive thoughts, emotions, and events you hold onto. Using personal anecdotes and stories, Robinson shares how God has worked in his life, and he shows others how to get the focus back, find the peace that surpasses all understanding, and ultimately move on.

No sport rivals football for building character. In the scorching heat of two-a-days and the fierce combat of the gridiron, true leaders are born. Just ask Bill Curry, whose credentials for exploring the relationship between football and leadership include two Super Bowl rings and the distinction of having snapped footballs to Bart Starr and Johnny Unitas. In Ten Men You Meet in the Huddle, Curry shares the wit, wisdom, and tough love of teammates and coaches who turned him from a next-to-last NFL draft pick into a two-time Pro Bowler. Learning from such giants as Vince Lombardi and Don Shula, Ray Nitschke and Bubba Smith, Bobby Dodd and even the indomitable George Plimpton, Curry led a football life of nonstop exploration packed with adventure and surprise. Blessed with irresistible characters, rich personal history, and a strong, simple, down-to-earth voice, Ten Men You Meet in the Huddle proves that football is much more than a game. It’s a metaphor for life. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Matt Christopher, the number one sports writer for kids, covers the childhood experiences, college careers, rookie years, and current professional standing of this outstanding athlete. It provides exciting play-by-play action of key games and insightful information on the people and events that enfluenced Young's life. Photos show Young doing what he does best.