Coaching Success
by Tim Timmons
“It has been proven that success comes from having
a plan and the courage to follow it. Tim Timmons,
using sports analogies, shows you how to get it
done the right way.”
- Charlie Pittman, Penn State All American and
Newspaper Executive
Motivational/Leadership
5.25 inches x 8.25 inches
184 pages; Paperback
ISBN 0975566717
Regular Price $12.95
Sale Price $11.95
This book tells the story of
late-blooming business executive
T.J. Murphy, who leaves the
coaching ranks of a national
contending college football program
and gets swept into the boardroom
as "head coach" of a struggling
manufacturing company. While he
doesn't show up in sweats with a
whistle, he brings many of the skills
honed during years of drawing "Xs
and Os" on a locker room
chalkboard. The reader gets a
50-yard line seat to watch Murphy's
management style and a peek
inside Murphy's Playbook with short,
easy to remember notes on
everything from motivation to
discipline. Murphy's leadership is a
soft touch, with a firm backing and a
no-nonsense flair that inspires more
than it stifles.----Fairfield County
Business Times, July 2005
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Takes a minute or two.
Coaching Success deals with the tools and teaching techniques that transcend the
football field to the boardroom. In this work of fiction, Murph, a college football coach with
considerable success under his belt, moves to head a local manufacturing company. His
leadership style is much the same off the field as it was on. His teaching principles are
highlighted in a series of “Murph’s playbook” sections.
TIM TIMMONS knows a lot about setting and achieving goals. Entering journalism as a
reporter and sportswriter for his high school newspaper (where he was named Outstanding
Journalism Student as a senior), he climbed the professional ranks from go-fer at his first
daily newspaper to become a publisher of a daily paper in his home state of Indiana. He’s
now the general manager of the South Bend, Ind., newspaper. He and his wife have two
teenage daughters, a dog and two cats.
During the writing portion of his career, he won numerous awards. After concentrating on
management, Timmons has served on many civic boards and organizations. He also has
played and coached tennis and baseball and once set his mind to play for a semi-pro
football team when he was in his late 30s. He made the team, despite being a decade and
a half older that most of the other players and lived to tell about it. Coach Murphy would
call him a “gamer” in any field he decides to pursue.