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Daniel Coyle is the New York Times best-selling author of the The Culture Code, The Secret Race, The Little Book of Talent, The Talent Code, Lance Armstrong's War, Hardball: A Season in the Projects and the novel Waking Samuel. Winner (with Tyler Hamilton) of the 2012 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Prize, he is a contributing editor for Outside magazine, and also works a special advisor to the Cleveland Guardians. Coyle lives in Cleveland, Ohio during the school year and in Homer, Alaska, during the summer with his wife Jen, and their four children.
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Blog postGood leadership is about having good reflexes, especially in moments of crisis. When there’s a problem in a group, most leaders tend to respond by protecting the group: letting people know it’s going to be okay, and putting problem in wider perspective. They strive send a signal of reassurance: This isn’t a big deal; we …
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1) “What if we….”
2) “Why don’t we….”
3) “How might we….”
If you guessed (3), you’re right. For why, check out this cool story on how designers at IDEO (who — you guessed it — are featured in my new book, The Culture Code) ignite team creativity. The core insight: starting with how might we sends a signal th5 years ago Read more -
Blog postCatchphrases have a bad reputation. They are corny. They are over-obvious. They sound dumb. As a result, we tend to avoid using them. (Think about how you reacted the last time someone suggested you “work smarter, not harder.”)
But here’s the funny thing : When you visit highly successful cultures, you’ll notice they use a lot …
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Blog postEvery leader wants to create strong culture. After all, culture drives group performance (a tidy 756 percent increased in net revenue over 11 years). As the old saying goes, culture eats strategy for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and midnight snack.
The problem, of course, is that creating culture is a wildly mysterious process. It’s hard to measure, …
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Blog postWhen you think about great leadership, you tend to think about big moments: daring decisions and inspiring speeches; moments when a great leader shows the path forward.
But in my research, I kept seeing leaders deliver something different. They weren’t big moments, but rather little moments of confession, when they admitted to a mistake or a …
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Blog postIt’s the oldest problem: what should you do about bad apples in your group, those chronically negative, team-sabotaging people who possess a genius for dragging others down?
The most straightforward solution is to simply fire them. Many groups have zero tolerance for bad apples (“No Dickheads” is the way the New Zealand All-Blacks rugby team puts …
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Blog postCheck out this story of Eric Thames, a washed-up ballplayer who used his time in the Korean league to transform his skills. As this story shows, boredom isn’t a problem; it’s the solution, because it gives you the opportunity to reflect, plan, and build something new.
Eric Thames and the Transformative Power of Boredom
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Blog postWanted to share some news: The Culture Code has an official release date: January 30, 2018. We originally were going to launch in fall, but the more we thought about it, the more we liked the idea of the new year.
It also has an actual, real-life cover:
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Blog postThis is the coolest/most inspiring video I’ve seen in a long time: Bruce Springsteen talking about practice.
Anybody else get goosebumps? How about you, Allen Iverson?
(Big thanks to Lisa Vahey. And also to Cousin Frankie)
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If you did, I think you’d find that your productivity, like so many things in life, probably follows a bell curve.
At one end, you …
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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BLOOMBERG AND LIBRARY JOURNAL
Where does great culture come from? How do you build and sustain it in your group, or strengthen a culture that needs fixing?
In The Culture Code, Daniel Coyle goes inside some of the world’s most successful organizations—including the U.S. Navy’s SEAL Team Six, IDEO, and the San Antonio Spurs—and reveals what makes them tick. He demystifies the culture-building process by identifying three key skills that generate cohesion and cooperation, and explains how diverse groups learn to function with a single mind. Drawing on examples that range from Internet retailer Zappos to the comedy troupe Upright Citizens Brigade to a daring gang of jewel thieves, Coyle offers specific strategies that trigger learning, spark collaboration, build trust, and drive positive change. Coyle unearths helpful stories of failure that illustrate what not to do, troubleshoots common pitfalls, and shares advice about reforming a toxic culture. Combining leading-edge science, on-the-ground insights from world-class leaders, and practical ideas for action, The Culture Code offers a roadmap for creating an environment where innovation flourishes, problems get solved, and expectations are exceeded.
Culture is not something you are—it’s something you do. The Culture Code puts the power in your hands. No matter the size of your group or your goal, this book can teach you the principles of cultural chemistry that transform individuals into teams that can accomplish amazing things together.
Praise for The Culture Code
“I’ve been waiting years for someone to write this book—I’ve built it up in my mind into something extraordinary. But it is even better than I imagined. Daniel Coyle has produced a truly brilliant, mesmerizing read that demystifies the magic of great groups. It blows all other books on culture right out of the water.”—Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Option B, Originals, and Give and Take
“If you want to understand how successful groups work—the signals they transmit, the language they speak, the cues that foster creativity—you won’t find a more essential guide than The Culture Code.”—Charles Duhigg, New York Times bestselling author of The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD
The Secret Race is the book that rocked the world of professional cycling—and exposed, at long last, the doping culture surrounding the sport and its most iconic rider, Lance Armstrong. Former Olympic gold medalist Tyler Hamilton was once one of the world’s top-ranked cyclists—and a member of Lance Armstrong’s inner circle. Over the course of two years, New York Times bestselling author Daniel Coyle conducted more than two hundred hours of interviews with Hamilton and spoke with numerous teammates, rivals, and friends. The result is an explosive page-turner of a book that takes us deep inside a shadowy, fascinating, and surreal world of unscrupulous doctors, anything-goes team directors, and athletes so relentlessly driven to win that they would do almost anything to gain an edge. For the first time, Hamilton recounts his own battle with depression and tells the story of his complicated relationship with Lance Armstrong. This edition features a new Afterword, in which the authors reflect on the developments within the sport, and involving Armstrong, over the past year. The Secret Race is a courageous, groundbreaking act of witness from a man who is as determined to reveal the hard truth about his sport as he once was to win the Tour de France.
With a new Afterword by the authors.
“Loaded with bombshells and revelations.”—VeloNews
“[An] often harrowing story . . . the broadest, most accessible look at cycling’s drug problems to date.”—The New York Times
“ ‘If I cheated, how did I get away with it?’ That question, posed to SI by Lance Armstrong five years ago, has never been answered more definitively than it is in Tyler Hamilton’s new book.”—Sports Illustrated
“Explosive.”—The Daily Telegraph (London)
What is the secret of talent? How do we unlock it? This groundbreaking work provides readers with tools they can use to maximize potential in themselves and others.
Whether you’re coaching soccer or teaching a child to play the piano, writing a novel or trying to improve your golf swing, this revolutionary book shows you how to grow talent by tapping into a newly discovered brain mechanism.
Drawing on cutting-edge neurology and firsthand research gathered on journeys to nine of the world’s talent hotbeds—from the baseball fields of the Caribbean to a classical-music academy in upstate New York—Coyle identifies the three key elements that will allow you to develop your gifts and optimize your performance in sports, art, music, math, or just about anything.
• Deep Practice Everyone knows that practice is a key to success. What everyone doesn’t know is that specific kinds of practice can increase skill up to ten times faster than conventional practice.
• Ignition We all need a little motivation to get started. But what separates truly high achievers from the rest of the pack? A higher level of commitment—call it passion—born out of our deepest unconscious desires and triggered by certain primal cues. Understanding how these signals work can help you ignite passion and catalyze skill development.
• Master Coaching What are the secrets of the world’s most effective teachers, trainers, and coaches? Discover the four virtues that enable these “talent whisperers” to fuel passion, inspire deep practice, and bring out the best in their students.
These three elements work together within your brain to form myelin, a microscopic neural substance that adds vast amounts of speed and accuracy to your movements and thoughts. Scientists have discovered that myelin might just be the holy grail: the foundation of all forms of greatness, from Michelangelo’s to Michael Jordan’s. The good news about myelin is that it isn’t fixed at birth; to the contrary, it grows, and like anything that grows, it can be cultivated and nourished.
Combining revelatory analysis with illuminating examples of regular people who have achieved greatness, this book will not only change the way you think about talent, but equip you to reach your own highest potential.
“If you are a leader—or if you work with one—and want to understand how to build psychological safety, trust, and a sense of purpose for your team, then you need this book.”—Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit
Building a team has never been harder than it is right now. How do you create connection and trust? How do you stay focused on your goals? In his years studying the ways successful groups work together, Daniel Coyle has spent time with elite teams around the world, observing the ways they support each other, manage conflict, and move toward a common goal. In The Culture Playbook, he distills everything he has learned into sixty concrete, actionable tips and exercises that will help your team build a cohesive, positive culture.
Great cultures, Coyle has found, are built on three essential skills: safety, vulnerability, and purpose. Within this framework, he shows us how we can better serve our teammates, ourselves, and our shared purpose, including:
• scheduling regular team “tune-ups” to place an explicit spotlight on the team’s inner workings and create conversations that surface and improve team dynamics
• creating spaces for remote coworkers to connect with their colleagues to foster a team spirit even across distances
• holding an anxiety party to serve as a pressure-relief valve, as well as a platform for people to connect and solve problems together
With reflections, exercises, and practical tips that will prove invaluable to companies, athletes, and families alike, and replete with black-and-white illustrations, The Culture Playbook is an indispensable guide to ensuring that your team performs at its best.
The Little Book of Talent is an easy-to-use handbook of scientifically proven, field-tested methods to improve skills—your skills, your kids’ skills, your organization’s skills—in sports, music, art, math, and business. The product of five years of reporting from the world’s greatest talent hotbeds and interviews with successful master coaches, it distills the daunting complexity of skill development into 52 clear, concise directives. Whether you’re age 10 or 100, whether you’re on the sports field or the stage, in the classroom or the corner office, this is an essential guide for anyone who ever asked, “How do I get better?”
Praise for The Little Book of Talent
“The Little Book of Talent should be given to every graduate at commencement, every new parent in a delivery room, every executive on the first day of work. It is a guidebook—beautiful in its simplicity and backed by hard science—for nurturing excellence.”—Charles Duhigg, bestselling author of The Power of Habit
“It’s so juvenile to throw around hyperbolic terms such as ‘life-changing,’ but there’s no other way to describe The Little Book of Talent. I was avidly trying new things within the first half hour of reading it and haven’t stopped since. Brilliant. And yes: life-changing.”—Tom Peters, co-author of In Search of Excellence
Lance Armstrong's War is the extraordinary story of greatness pushed to its limits; a vivid, behind-the-scenes portrait of perhaps the most accomplished athlete of our time as he vies for a historic sixth straight victory in the toughest sporting event on the planet. It is the true story of a superlative sports figure fighting on all fronts—made newly vulnerable by age, fate, fame, doping allegations, a painful divorce, and an unprecedented army of challengers—while mastering the exceedingly difficult trick of being Lance Armstrong, a combination of world-class athlete, celebrity, regular guy, and, for many Americans, secular saint.
With a new afterword by the author, featuring in-depth reporting on:
- Armstrong's unprecedented seventh consecutive Tour de France victory
- New blood doping allegations
- Armstrong's continuing personal and legal battles, and his retirement
A fascinating journey through the little-known landscape of professional bike racing, Lance Armstrong's War provides a hugely insightful look into the often inspiring, always surprising core of a remarkable athlete and the world that shapes him.
¿Por qué ciertos grupos ofrecen más que la suma de sus partes mientras que otros ofrecen menos?
LAS CLAVES DE LA CULTURA DE EQUIPO, AL ALCANCE DE TODOS.
La cultura de grupo es una de las mayores fuerzas que existen. Podemos percibir su presencia en los negocios de éxito, en los equipos que lideran los campeonatos y en las familias más prósperas, y enseguida notamos cuándo falta y cuándo se ha vuelto tóxica. Todos queremos implantar una cultura fuerte en nuestras respectivas organizaciones, comunidades y familias. Sabemos que funciona, pero no sabemos con exactitud cómo.
Solemos considerarla un rasgo grupal, como el ADN. Las culturas sólidas y bien fundamentadas como las de Google, Disney o los SEAL de la Armada estadounidense parecen tan singulares y características que podrían calificarse de inamovibles, como si de alguna manera estuvieran predestinadas a ser así. De acuerdo a este razonamiento, unos grupos son agraciados con una cultura sólida y otros no.
Este libro adopta una perspectiva distinta. Tras investigar los grupos de mayor éxito del mundo, Daniel Coyle llegó a la conclusión de que sus respectivas culturas nacían de un conjunto específico de habilidades que aprovechan el potencial de nuestro cerebro social.
La habilidad 1, «Labrar la seguridad», profundiza en cómo las señales de vinculación establecen lazos de pertenencia y de identidad.
La habilidad 2, «Comparte la vulnerabilidad», explica cómo el hábito de afrontar riesgos comunes propicia la cooperación basada en la confianza.
Y la habilidad 3, «Define un propósito», detalla cómo las narraciones implantan objetivos y valores comunes.
Con extraordinaria amenidad, este libro explora cómo funciona cada una de estas tres habilidades y da a conocer las experiencias de los grupos y los líderes que emplean estos métodos a diario en un mundo siempre cambiante. Aunque pueda parecer que una cultura de éxito se consigue por arte de magia, no es así. La cultura es un conjunto de relaciones vivas con un objetivo común. No es algo que seas, sino algo que haces.
Reseñas:
«Esta es la guía esencial para comprender cómo trabajan los equipos de éxito. Un libro profundo y enormemente práctico.»
Charles Duhigg, autor de Más agudo, más rápido y mejor (Conecta)
«Llevaba años esperando a que alguien escribiera este libro. Léanlo inmediatamente.»
Adam Grant, autor de Opción B (Conecta)
Best-seller do The New York Times e eleito um dos melhores livros de negócios de 2018 por Bloomberg e Library Journal.
O livro preferido da Stone.
Prefácio de Andre Street, fundador da StoneCo.
"Este livro mostra que reunir pessoas com inteligência acima da média não basta. Para atingir um objetivo com excelência é preciso união e um sonho grande. É leitura obrigatória para quem quer empreender um negócio baseado em uma cultura forte." – Jorge Paulo Lemann
"Os exemplos que Daniel Coyle traz neste livro mostram que ao contrário do que muitas vezes pensamos, a cultura de uma empresa não se torna forte por decisão de alguém. Ela é resultado de uma liderança com visão clara e capacidade de despertar o esforço diário para que todos trabalhem em benefício de uma meta compartilhada." – Guilherme Benchimol, fundador da XP
“Construir verdadeiros times, que compartilhem um mesmo propósito, num ambiente de segurança, é fundamental em qualquer contexto, seja nos esportes, nas empresas, nas comunidades. O êxito depende sempre de um trabalho de time, e Equipes brilhantes nos mostra os segredos dessa construção!” – Bernardinho
“Equipes brilhantes traz, mais do que inspirações, estudos e casos de sucesso que apontam caminhos para unir pessoas em busca de um objetivo comum. Leitura fundamental para quem quer formar equipe de campeões.” – Augusto Lins, presidente da Stone Pagamentos
“Um livro necessário para quem quer exercer a boa liderança.” – Thiago Piaui
“Este livro mostra que processo criativo não é um mistério ou um dom exclusivo de artistas. Tem a ver com processos e mentes treinadas.” – Eduardo Pontes
“Um livro verdadeiramente brilhante que desmistifica a magia do sucesso de grandes grupos.” – Adam Grant, autor de Originais
"Se você quer entender como equipes de sucesso trabalham, este é o guia essencial. Um livro cheio de ideias e dicas práticas." – Charles Duhigg, autor de O poder do hábito
La guía definitiva para estimular y fomentar la mejor cultura de equipo.
Un libro que perfeccionará las habilidades de cualquier líder y fortalecerá la cohesión de cualquier grupo.
¿En qué consiste una buena mentalidad de equipo?
¿Cómo podemos sacar lo mejor de un grupo o mejorar aquel que lo necesita?
Daniel Coyle lleva años investigando a equipos de élite de todo el mundo, estudiando cómo se apoyan, cómo gestionan los conflictos y cómo avanzan hacia un objetivo común. Los que mejor funcionan, explica, se basan en tres ejes esenciales: seguridad, vulnerabilidad y propósito.
Manual práctico de los mejores equipos ofrece 60 tácticas sencillas para construir un entorno fuerte, cohesionado y positivo. Coyle incluye en estas páginas ejercicios que pueden llevarse a cabo en cualquier situación, como, por ejemplo:
* Programar reuniones para hablar explícitamente del funcionamiento del equipo con el fin de mejorar la dinámica interna.
* Crear espacios para que los trabajadores remotos estén conectados con el resto del equipo y cultiven una mentalidad de equipo a pesar de la distancia.
* Celebrar fiestas que sirvan como válvula de escape y como plataforma para que la gente conecte y resuelva problemas en equipo.
Repleto de ilustraciones en blanco y negro y de consejos prácticos útiles para empresas, atletas e incluso familias, Manual práctico de los mejores equipos es una guía indispensable para lograr que cualquier grupo rinda al máximo.
Reseñas:
«Si eres un líder, o si trabajas con uno, y quieres comprender cómo generar seguridad, confianza y un sentido de propósito para tu equipo, necesitas este libro».
Charles Duhigg, autor de Más agudo, más rápido y mejor y El poder de los hábitos
«Tu cultura de equipo = tus acciones. Con esta simple frase, Dan Coyle descifra el elemento más importante y complejo para crear los mejores equipos y ofrece acciones concretas para construir una cohesión increíble todos los días».
Laszlo Bock, autor de La nueva fórmula del trabajo
«Manual práctico de los mejores equipos ofrece un conjunto de ejercicios simples y efectivos para cualquiera que se plantee crear una cultura de equipo que permita prosperar y desempeñar el trabajo lo mejor posible. Marcadamente práctico, este es un libro de trabajo con un toque lúdico, y seguirlo ayudará a cualquier grupo a alcanzar el éxito».
Amy C. Edmondson, docente en Harvard Business School
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