Marty Devlin has lived a remarkable life from professional baseball player and All-American diver to college athletic director and tennis industry marketing executive.
His memoir shares an inspiring human-interest story of transformation and innovation. Now in his 90s, Marty golfs, swims, and teaches tennis. In sharing his life story, Marty shares lessons of creativity, leadership, goal setting positive self-change, motivation, problem-solving and so much more that will inspire anyone no matter their age.
Having spent more than 30 years in sports public relations and marketing, I was intrigued when I was first introduced to Michael Rasile via LinkedIn as the host of the For The Love Of Sports podcast.
I would regularly watch Michael’s podcast interviews that I discovered on LinkedIn with leaders in the sports business industry. A short time later, I invited Michael to be a guest speaker in my sports marketing and sponsorship course in the Rutgers University Global Sports Business graduate program. Michael gave me and each of the students his book, Winning In Sports Business.
The book provides insights, advice, and lessons for anyone who wants to break into the sports business. Mike shares the career journeys of successful sports business executives that will inspire anyone who dreams of working in the sports business.
Did you know that the movie Jerry Maguire ruined the sports agency business?
In Winning in Sports Business, Michael Rasile shares what the nuances of the sports business landscape are like, and what people need to do to get into it. He shares stories from the movers and shakers in the sports business and details many different areas of the sports business world that are still untapped.
This book will help answer these questions:
What are the types of jobs/career paths in sports?
Dr. Richard Dool is a colleague of mine in the communication
department of the Rutgers University School of Communication and
Information. He consistently publishes compelling and inspiring thought
leadership content on leaders and effective and transformative
leadership including 12 Months of Leadership Insights.
The book is organized by the birth months of leaders ranging from Maya Angelou and Mother Teresa to Walt Disney and Sir Richard Branson. The brilliance of the book is that you can open to any page and be inspired by the biography of a diverse group of leaders and learn from the leadership insights the author features and apply those insights to your own leadership no matter your career track.
Welcome to 12 Months of Leadership Insights, our compendium of the leadership insights of 40 leaders. We selected three leaders for each month based on their birth month and added in four bonus leaders. Our selected leaders are from an array of backgrounds, positions and eras. We went as far back as the United States Revolution with Hamilton and Jefferson to current leaders like Bezos, Ma, and Nooyi. We have political figures like Lincoln and Churchill, civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King, Jr and Cesar Chávez, business icons including Branson, Welch, and Gates, as well as leaders from other…
There is no better time than now if you are an employer or a marketer to shift your mindset regarding Gen Z employees and consumers. Instead of simply considering them young and junior with minimal influence and experience, begin to comprehend that they are powerful ZEOs who will transform the workplace, marketing, media, content and so much more over the next two decades. ZEO: Introducing Gen Z, The New Generation Of Leaders, is the ultimate manual to inform and inspire employers and marketers how to effectively engage Gen Z.
