If your organization is not performing at its best, this book is for you. It puts you right into the shoes of the leaders of the great baseball dynasties and demonstrates how they overcame challenges common to those in our own teams and groups. Topics include managing and motivating highly talented but dysfunctional individuals, turning around careers that have stalled late in life, better understanding the practical benefits of diversity and inclusion, and inspiring individuals to find their best within the context of their teams. Meyer combines his over thirty years representing some of the world's top companies with his deep knowledge of baseball history and looks at leadership from a brand-new perspective. Learn the value of encouraging leadership from all levels in your organization. Discover the critical importance of leaders coming to terms with their own internal demons before they can reach their full potential. Unlock the secrets of how to out-perform the competition in times of intense pressure and how to find opportunity in times of crisis. The stories of the greatest teams of our greatest game are wildly entertaining and provide unique insight into our own success. Whether you are a baseball fan or not, reading Championing the Cause of Leadership will deepen your skillset as a leader and could dramatically improve the future of your team.
Ted Meyer is a highly rated labor and employment lawyer who represents organizations nationwide in matters relating to leadership and organizational excellence. He has counseled some of the largest employers in the world on how to improve their organizations and has done similar work for smaller teams and groups including churches and non-profits. Ted is also a self-taught baseball historian with a deep understanding and respect for the history of the game and the value of inclusiveness within it. Ted has pursued both passions side by side for over 30 years.
Ted is a fine leader in his own right; and to use the great Baseball Dynasties to teach us crucial leadership principles and lessons makes the education enjoyable and memorable.--Dr. Alf Halvorson, Senior Pastor, Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church Ted Meyer has written an important book that shows how excellence in one field, baseball, has application in other fields. His choices of his dynasty teams are spot on, his research is thorough, and his accounts of the teams and players are vivid. Anyone who can see big pictures and expand perceptions beyond those pictures has done something worthy. Kudos to Ted for pulling off a superb contribution to baseball history and broadened the game's appeal.--Talmage Boston, Lawyer and Author of 1939: Baseball's Tipping Point and Baseball and the Baby Boomer
