Practical Leadership Strategies

Lessons from the World of Professional Baseball

By (author) Robert Palestini Professor of Educational Leadership Emeritus; Former Dean of Graduate and C Foreword by Jamie Moyer

Publication date:

16 February 2010

Length of book:

226 pages

Publisher

R&L Education

Dimensions:

240x162mm
6x9"

This book details characteristics and behaviors manifested by effective leaders and discussion of how their behavior was informed by leadership theory. Robert Palestini describes the leadership practice of professional baseball coaches as a way to illustrate situational leadership theory, offering the reader examples of leadership behavior in the four leadership frames suggested by Bolman and Deal's situational leadership theory. This book demonstrates how someone can become a very effective leader in both his personal and professional life.

Palestini has been my colleague at Saint Joseph's University for over twenty years, and I can attest to the validity of the leadership strategies he espouses in this latest book profiling the effective leadeship behavior of ten outstanding professional baseball managers. Having served as manager of an American Legion team and having personal relationships with such baseball luminaries as Bill Giles, part owner and chairman of the Philadelphia Phillies, and Jerry Hunsicker, vice president of the Tampa Bay Rays and former general manager of the Houston Astros, I have observed firsthand how the leadership theories in Palestini's book can be placed into effective practice. The leadership strategies that he suggests will be of value to leaders and aspiring leaders in all walks of life.