What IBM learn from Manchester United, what the English RFU learn from Hewlett-Packard

Added: (Thu May 21 2009)

Pressbox (Press Release) - "There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that England won the [rugby] world cup because we applied business principles to management of professional sport" - Sir Clive Woodward.

Business methods can feed into sports coaching, impacting its ultimate goal, winning. And, from the other side, the challenges of elite sport - relating to motivation, compliance with training regimes, consistency, focus, mental toughness - can be applied in the business world, impacting its ultimate goal, profits.

The newly published Annual Review of High Performance Coaching & Consulting 2009 (ISBN 978 0 906522509) address and explores these issues of transferring coaching excellence from one domain to another.

The editor, Simon Jenkins of Leeds Metropolitan University, has brought together a team of expert and high profile authors whose contributions to this volume include: The Impact of the Inner Game and Sir John Whitmore on Coaching • Developing Women Athletes: Insights from Business and Management • Work-Life Imbalance, Stress, and Individual and Organisational Intervention Strategies • Creating an Environment Where High Performance is Inevitable and Sustainable: The High Performance Environment Model • Higher Education, Personal Development and Coaching • Stepping Out of the Box: How Stories Can Inspire Growth, Development, and Change • Critical Effort and Leadership in Specialised Virtual Networks • Sports Coaches' Informal Learning from Business and Military Discourse

Full details about the book, the contributors and the editorial board can be seen at www.multi-science.co.uk/arhpcc.htm