I've Got Your Back: Coaching Top Performers from Center Court to the Corner Office

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We're all coaches
On the face of it, you'd be hard pressed to think of two guys more different than Brad Gilbert and me. I talk about stocks on CNBC; Brad flies around the world coaching Andy Roddick.

Chapter 1: Tennis Lessons, Life Lessons
Some people call me a great coach. After all, they say, I've taken two tennis players - one of them, Andre Agassi, slightly stuck in neutral and not playing the way he should; the other, Andy Roddick, a hot-tempered kid with genius but less than great

Chapter 1: Tennis Lessons, Life Lessons, Part 2
Chiv had been at Foothill his entire career, since the school opened its doors in the mid-sixties. He could have gone to many other schools, because he was a great coach, but he ended up just loving Foothill and creating a great tennis program there.

Like its bestselling predecessors Success Is a Choice by Rick Pitino, Winning Every Day by Lou Holtz, and The Winner Within by Pat Riley, I've Got Your Back will help you take your game from good to great - no matter what field you compete in.

Brad Gilbert was the fourth highest ranked tennis player in the world in 1989. He won twenty major tournaments and dominated many players who had more natural talent. But it turns out that Gilbert's true calling wasn't playing tennis - it was coaching. After retiring as a player, he took over the floundering career of Andre Agassi. Under Gilbert's tutelage, Agassi regained his poise, cleared his head, and clawed his way back to number one, winning two Grand Slam tournaments in short order.Was Agassi a fluke? Well, Gilbert's next client was twenty-year-old Andy Roddick - a kid with immense talent who never seemed to survive past the semifinals of a Grand Slam event. After working with Gilbert for just ninety days, Roddick won the U.S. Open, the first Grand Slam of his career. And the first person he ran to embrace wasn't his parents or his Hollywood girlfriend, but Brad Gilbert, the man who had transformed his career.

Now Gilbert has compiled his best advice about dealing with intense pressure, frustrating distractions, and competitors who try to psych you out. I've Got Your Back is the answer to the mental challenges we all face in our work. It will appeal to the millions of executives and would-be executives who follow Grand Slam tennis - and who are already impressed by the triumphs of Brad Gilbert.

Brad Gilbert is the author of the tennis classic Winning Ugly, which has sold more than 125,000 copies. Before he became a coach, he played professional tennis from 1982 to 1995, winning twenty pro titles..

James Kaplan is the co-author, with John McEnroe, of the #1 New York Times bestseller You Cannot Be Serious..

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