23.11.2009 | 14:30
University Lecturer and Soccer-Adept Jörg Wontorra write Leadership Guidebook
That is the conclusion of the book “Management for the Champions League”, written by Prof. Dr. Ralf Lanwehr from the International University of Applied Sciences Bad Honnef · Bonn together with Prof. Dr. Sven Voelpel from Jacobs University Bremen and longtime soccer anchorman Jörg Wontorra and which was published now.
The book shows which leadership and management techniques are particularly successful in soccer and can be transferred to businesses and other forms of cooperation. The parallel balancing of security, demands and advancing employees, attention inwards and orientation towards competitors as well as the pursuit of short-term and long–term goals are decisive lessons for leaders, managers, coaches and executives, which are portrayed comprehensibly with the help of examples from professional soccer.
In addition to a multitude of practical examples and an extensive company profile interviews with soccer specialists Uli Hoeneß and Felix Magath. The author, Ralf Lanwehr, is professor for business administration at the International University of Applied Sciences Bad Honnef · Bonn and lectures sport management at Jena University. In addition he works internationally as organisation- and strategy consultant and publishes regularly in his field of specialization corporate management, innovation management and balance management.
The book “Management for the Champions League“ costs 24,90 Euro (259 pages, bound, 68 colored illustrations) and can be obtained through the book trade (ISBN 978-3-89578-290-9).
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