In Empowerment: The Competitive Edge in Sports, Business & Life high-profile personality Dr. Gene Landrum presents, in a self-help format, the 13 winning behaviors modeled by the 13 greatest athletes of the modern era. Landrum’s research into the lives of the great entrepreneurs and athletes, supported by a growing body of evidence, suggests that eminence, whether in business or sports derives not from genetic superiority, but from winning behaviors and learned emotional dispositions.
With a delightful blend of gifted story-telling and intellectual scholarship, Dr. Landrum has created a book that melds the recent discoveries in psychology and brain research with the dramatic performances of the world’s greatest athletes. Charismatic athletes such as Michael Jordan, Lance Armstrong, Martina Navratilova and Tiger Woods are analyzed in psycho-biographical profiles that focus on the underlying motivations and behaviors of these preeminent personalities rather than on what they achieved. In this respect and in its connection to the recent research in brain function and psychology, Dr. Landrum’s work is unprecedented in the extant literature on athletes and athletic technique.
A smoothly blended combination of scholarship and biography Gene Landrum is the founder of the Chuck E. Cheese Restaurant chain and co-founder of Atari Computer. He is also a professor of the international College in Naples, Florida. In writing “Empowerment: The Competitive Edge In Sports, Business & Life”, Landrum draws upon his many years of experience, expertise and success to identify and share thirteen winning behaviors that have enabled entrepreneurs and athletes to achieve excellent and eminence in their various fields of performance. Among the…
Frankly speaking, if you still want to read or find out more about this book, I reckon you can try the Amazon online reader! I am most familiar with the published works of Gene Landrum, especially after having read many of his earlier works, namely,’Profiles of Genius’, “Profiles of Female Genius’, ‘Profiles of Power & Success’, & ‘Entrepreneurial Genius’. They were relatively good, in terms of understanding & appreciating the psychology of success.The author probably spent much of his remaining years, after having turned businessman (as founder of a chain of family restaurants) to educator, studying…