In the Zone: Achieving Optimal Performance in Business-As in Sports

by J. Mitchell Perry

Book Overview

Offers a step-by-step game plan for performing better in business as the top athletes and coaches do in their arenas. This book illustrates how understanding the method in which the likes of Jordan,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809231956
• ISBN13: 9780809231959
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Everything you want it to be

The basic idea of this book is to look at your business from the same perspective you may have looked at sports. Sports are fun, why isn't business fun? This book tells you how to systematically and consistantly put yourself in a peak state. I used to be a very competetive cross country runner, and this helped me translate the things I did instinctively to put myself in the best mental state for competition to the sales setting that I've been in in the last five years. I've read it several times, and I'll probably read it several more. It's just good stuff.Just one caveat: This book does assume that you have the technical competency to perform your task. I've given this book to new salespeople who still weren't totally clear on exactly what to do, and by virtue of that fact the book was pretty useless.So, assuming that you know the rules to your game, this book will help you get in the best mental state to play it. And it will teach you how to have fun doing it.

Everything you want it to be

This book tells you how to systematically and consistantly put yourself in a peak state. I used to be a very competetive cross country runner, and this helped me translate the things I did instinctively to put myself in the best mental state for competition to the sales setting that I've been in in the last five years. It keys in on the fact that if you aren't having fun, you're doing it wrong. I've read it several times, and I'll probably read it several more. It's just good stuff.

Be like Mike (in business)

Good reading. Great ideas. A direct one-to-one guide for high octane performance from sports to business. Jamison's work with Andre Agassi, UCLA Coach John Wooden, and others sports superstars is a treasure trove of substantive advice.

Better than any other book on the subject.

Jamison presents the mental management secrets of Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan and others, and shows their direct application to success in business. What he says WORKS!

Increased my performance results significantly!

Steve Jamison understands the mental management skills of Grand Champions in sports better than anyone in America! In The Zone tells how to apply those skills in business and in life for optimum results on a consistent basis. This is a perfect addition to his other books, WINNING UGLY and WOODEN.