Jon Gordon, Author "The Power of a Positive Team"

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5 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2018

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Episode 117

Jon Gordon is the author of 18 books, including 5 best-sellers: The Energy Bus, The Carpenter, Training Camp, You Win in the Locker Room First and The Power of Positive Leadership.

His latest book, The Power of a Positive Team releases today, June 13, 2018.

Jon and his leadership principles have been featured on The Today Show, CNN, CNBC, The Golf Channel, Fox and Friends and in numerous magazines and newspapers. His clients include The Los Angeles Dodgers, The Atlanta Falcons, LA Clippers, Miami Heat, Pittsburgh Pirates, Los Angeles Rams and Clemson Football.

In this episode of the podcast, Jon talks about the practices that are essential in making a great team great, how sports and faith can work together and why Celtics coach Brad Stevens and Dodgers coach Dave Roberts are building their teams the right way. We also turn the tables on him and ask him questions that were posed in his book The Carpenter from the character J. Emmanuel.

For more on Jon, check out all of his resources at http://JonGordon.com

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Sports Spectrum podcast, where faith and sports
0:14.9	collide.
0:16.1	Here's your host, Jason Romano.
0:18.6	This is episode number 118 of the Sports Spectrum podcast with author and speaker John Gordon.
0:26.3	And this podcast is brought to you in part by Compassion International.
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0:52.7	today. Today's guest on the podcast is John Gordon.
0:56.8	You know him as the author of The Energy Bus and The Carpenter and Training Camp
1:02.1	and 15 other books.
1:03.6	John is a renowned author.
1:05.7	Millions of people have purchased his books and millions of people have watched him
1:09.5	speak and give keynote addresses
1:11.0	all across the country, all across the world. And we're just grateful and thankful to have
1:16.1	John back here on the podcast. His latest book is called The Power of a Positive Team. Now,
1:22.6	his previous book before that was called The Power of a Positive Leader. Now we're at the
1:26.9	power of a positive team. And we're at the Power of a Positive
1:28.0	Team. And some people have called this book John's masterpiece. And it releases today as we
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