In this brief YouTube segment, speaker Jim Bouchard—author of Think Like a Black Belt—introduces and endorses John Brubaker’s book The Coach Approach: Success Strategies from the Locker Room to the Boardroom. Bouchard discloses his friendship with Brubaker and explains his review policy of only offering positive reviews. He highlights that the book translates athletic lessons—discipline, focus, perseverance, courage, and confidence—into business and leadership contexts, echoing the same principles he teaches. Bouchard positions the book as a practical tool for individuals seeking personal or professional growth and for leaders tasked with developing others, urging listeners to add it to their development arsenal.
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Hi, I'm Jim Bouchard, the guy who teaches you how to think like a black belt. I'm a speaker and the author of Think Like a Black Belt, but today I'm here to talk to you about a book by my friend John Brubaker, and it's titled The Coach Approach: Success Strategies from the Locker Room to the Boardroom. In this, John is drawing on his experience as a player, a lacrosse player, and a coach, and translating those experiences for use in business. In the spirit of full disclosure, as I said, John is a friend of mine, but he knows as well as anybody my policy on reviews. I just don't do bad reviews. If I can't offer a positive review, if I don't believe that this is a resource you should have in your library, I just won't do the review. Now in this book, what's particularly, uh, resonant with me is that John's touching on some of the same principles that I talk about when I'm talking about Think Like a Black Belt, and that's discipline, focus, perseverance, courage, confidence. These are all things that you learn on the athletic field, and no doubt you may have already learned these lessons in your life, whether you played high school athletics or you took it further. The trick is to make sure that you don't leave those lessons out on the field, that you take them with you in whatever, whatever endeavor or adventure that you pursue later on in life. And that's what The Coach Approach is all about. You might be looking for a tool for your own personal or professional development, or you may be in a leadership or management position and it's your job to develop other people. This is one tool you need to have in your arsenal. The Coach Approach by John Brubaker.
