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Sideline CEO: Leadership Principles from Championship Coaches
By (Author) Marty Smith
Foreword by Tim Tebow
Little, Brown & Company
Twelve
9th December 2025
United States
General
Non Fiction
Sports training and coaching
American football
Paperback
256
Width 133mm, Height 203mm
SIDELINE CEO delves into the unique psychology and daily preparation and gameplan execution of some of America's most respected leaders-the coaches who have led hugely successful programs to win it all. Included among the legends whom Marty interviewed for SIDELINE CEO are: Nick Saban, Mack Brown, Kim Mulkey, Doc Rivers, John Calipari, Tim Corbin, Roy Williams, Tom Izzo, Patty Gasso, Dabo Swinney, Frank Beamer, and many others.
In talking to these sideline CEOs, Marty develops a set of leadership pillars that include:- Building vital TRUST within the organization.- Creating open lines of COMMUNICATION.- DELEGATING responsibility-and thereby empowerment-to your coaches and players.- Establishing and sustaining the RIGHT CULTURE in your program.- MANAGING CRISES and adversity.- EVOLVING with the game, the players and society, and always challenging your team.Packed with insight, candor and keen storytelling from some of the greatest coaches of all time, SIDELINE CEO offers valuable takeaways that go beyond the game and apply to the boardroom, the classroom, and can help set intentions for winning in our daily lives.Marty Smith has produced in-depth interviews, vulnerable storytelling, and breaking news reporting across every ESPN platform for nearly 20 years and in almost every sport, including college football and basketball, the NFL, NBA, NASCAR and IndyCar, Formula 1, the horse racing Triple Crown, The Masters and the PGA Tour. Marty's 2019 memoir, Never Settle, Sports, Family, and the American Soul, is a New York Times bestseller.