Moving the Chains
Title | Moving the Chains PDF eBook |
Author | Charles P. Pierce |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Total Pages | 292 |
Release | 2007-10-16 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780374214449 |
Offers a biography of football star Tom Brady, discussing his upbringing, college career, and success as quarterback of the New England Patriots.
Moving the Chains
Title | Moving the Chains PDF eBook |
Author | Charles P. Pierce |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | 288 |
Release | 2007-10-16 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 9780374707118 |
When Tom Brady entered the 2005 NFL season as lead quarterback for the New England Patriots, the defending Super Bowl champions, he was hailed as the best to ever play the position. And with good reason: he was the youngest quarterback to ever win a Super Bowl; the only quarterback in NFL history to win three Super Bowls before turning twenty-eight; the fourth player in history to win multiple Super Bowl MVP awards. He started the season with a 57–14 record, the best of any NFL quarterback since 1966. Award-winning sports journalist Charles P. Pierce's Moving the Chains explains how Brady reached the top of his profession and how he stays there. It is a study in highly honed skills, discipline, and making the most of good fortune, and is shot through with ironies—a sixth-round draft pick turned superstar leading a football dynasty that was once so bedraggled it had to play a home game in Birmingham, Alabama, because no stadium around Boston would have it. It is also about an ordinary man and an ordinary team becoming extraordinary. Pierce interviewed Brady's friends, family, coaches, and teammates. He interviewed Brady (notably for Sports Illustrated's 2005 Sportsman of the Year cover article). And then he got the one thing he needed to truly take Brady's measure: 2005 turned out to be the toughest Patriots season in five years.
Moving the Chains
Title | Moving the Chains PDF eBook |
Author | Domenico LePore |
Publisher | Business Expert Press |
Total Pages | 220 |
Release | 2019-06-20 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1948976218 |
The way we design and work within our organizations is profoundly impacted by digital technologies and complexity. Speed of flow is critical for innovation, production, communication, and delivery. Arguably, silo-based, functional hierarchies are failing to guarantee the necessary speed of flow as well as quality, and involvement of people. Applying techniques is insufficient. What is required is a radical rethink to compete and thrive. Nothing less than a new way of understanding – an epistemological framework – will do. This book aims to provide such a framework and show how we can break free from silos and silo thinking through a truly systemic approach. It presents an operational solution that allows organizations to effectively adopt digital technologies and reap their benefits. It highlights the new kind of leadership that our increasingly network-based and distributed business world requires to achieve sustainable prosperity.
Moving the Chains
Title | Moving the Chains PDF eBook |
Author | Neil Stratton |
Publisher | Neil Stratton |
Total Pages | 156 |
Release | 2018-11-09 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780692190593 |
Neil Stratton walks the reader through the NFL draft process, discussing scouts, agents, all-star games, the combine and other points along the way.
Take Your Eye Off the Ball 2.0
Title | Take Your Eye Off the Ball 2.0 PDF eBook |
Author | Pat Kirwan |
Publisher | Triumph Books |
Total Pages | 288 |
Release | 2015-09-15 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 1633192946 |
Renowned NFL analysts' tips to make football more accessible, colorful, and compelling than ever before More and more football fans are watching the NFL each week, but many of them don't know exactly what they should be watching. What does the offense's formation tell you about the play that's about to be run? When a quarterback throws a pass toward the sideline and the wide receiver cuts inside, which player is to blame? Why does a defensive end look like a Hall of Famer one week and a candidate for the practice squad the next? These questions and more are addressed in Take Your Eye Off the Ball 2.0, a book that takes readers deep inside the perpetual chess match between offense and defense. This book provides clear and simple explanations to the intricacies and nuances that affect the outcomes of every NFL game. This updated edition contains recent innovations from the 2015 NFL season.
First and Goal
Title | First and Goal PDF eBook |
Author | Kata Cuic |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | 362 |
Release | 2016-07-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781534762381 |
Eva Papageorgiou has one goal: to make it through her senior year of high school unseen and unscathed. But when her plans to stay out of the limelight are derailed by rampant rumors, she's forced to change tactics. She'll keep everyone at arm's length. Especially boys. So when she's partnered up in class with the hot as hell varsity quarterback, she pushes and pushes. Until he pushes back. Rob Falls just wants to fit in. With his teammates, with his friends, with everyone. His image as the quintessential jock makes him feel like a fraud. Especially since it's the only reason all the girls at school want him, except the one girl he dreams about. When he's forced to tutor the class pariah, he realizes it's time to get in the game instead of faking it. She's going to help him get exactly what he wants, whether she knows it or not. Life doesn't come with a playbook, but Rob knows this could be the most important play he'll ever make. First and Goal is book one in The Moving the Chains series. It ends on a cliffhanger. The Moving the Chains series is recommended for mature readers (age 16+) due to strong language, sexual content, and potential emotional triggers.
Chains
Title | Chains PDF eBook |
Author | Laurie Halse Anderson |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 338 |
Release | 2010-01-05 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1416905863 |
If an entire nation could seek its freedom, why not a girl? As the Revolutionary War begins, thirteen-year-old Isabel wages her own fight...for freedom. Promised freedom upon the death of their owner, she and her sister, Ruth, in a cruel twist of fate become the property of a malicious New York City couple, the Locktons, who have no sympathy for the American Revolution and even less for Ruth and Isabel. When Isabel meets Curzon, a slave with ties to the Patriots, he encourages her to spy on her owners, who know details of British plans for invasion. She is reluctant at first, but when the unthinkable happens to Ruth, Isabel realizes her loyalty is available to the bidder who can provide her with freedom. From acclaimed author Laurie Halse Anderson comes this compelling, impeccably researched novel that shows the lengths we can go to cast off our chains, both physical and spiritual.