It's an emotional game learning about leadership from the experience of football - Stapley, Lionel (Karnac Books, 2002)
Based on work in the environment of professional football, this book explores the effect emotions have on team members. This leads to a different way of viewing leadership, one which has at its core the need for a high degree of emotional awareness
COVER; CONTENTS; CHAPTER ONE Leaders and teams: understanding self and others; CHAPTER TWO Motivation of the leader in the context of the team; CHAPTER THREE Managing aggression in the leader and other team members; CHAPTER FOUR Defence mechanisms -- coping with failure; CHAPTER FIVE Authority -- who does what?; CHAPTER SIX Leaders and discipline; CHAPTER SEVEN Why punishment does not achieve discipline; CHAPTER EIGHT Leadership re-defined; AFTERWORD; REFERENCES; INDEX.