Ping Pong Leadership
18 Principles to Succeed at Any Table in Business, Sports, and Life
by Justin Bookey
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Pub Date 26 Mar 2024 | Archive Date 31 Jul 2024
Amplify Publishing Group | Amplify Publishing
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Description
Leadership Through a Unique Lens: Ping Pong
Tens of millions of people worldwide enjoy ping pong on some level. And if you’re looking to enhance your leadership skills, ping pong offers surprisingly relevant lessons for success.
Justin Bookey has spent decades in both worlds. As an Emmy-nominated content creator and strategist, he’s worked with leaders at global companies to accomplish their business goals. As a competitive table tennis player, he’s trained with national and world champions and won medals at the US Open.
Those two worlds rarely overlapped—until Bookey realized that the core principles he learned while training to compete at the table also apply to success in business and leadership.
In the 1970s, the leaders of the US and China famously used friendly table tennis matches as a first step in thawing decades of icy relations—an effort dubbed Ping Pong Diplomacy. Ping Pong Leadership takes the next step, showing leaders of all types how to envision and create meaningful change, from small business to the Fortune 500 and broader communities.
Along with exclusive insights from leaders in commerce, culture, and technology, this book distills lessons from the world’s most-played sport into 18 actionable and unforgettable “Pong Principles.”
For leaders, entrepreneurs, and competitors of all kinds, Ping Pong Leadership is a powerful guide to success at any table.
Advance Praise
“At some point, we all face a critical business or leadership challenge, large or small. That’s why every leader will appreciate the ‘pong principles’ in this book. These stories from impressive leaders and innovators will accelerate your ability to reach your business or leadership goals.”—Jeff Hoffman, Priceline.com cofounder
“Justin Bookey artfully draws the parallels between the game of ping pong and effective leadership strategies. This book is a must-read for anyone looking to elevate their competitive game to the next level!”—Tawny Banh, two-time table tennis Olympian and four-time US national doubles champion
“Bookey seamlessly weaves together fascinating details about the sport and art of ping pong with actionable advice from some of today’s top thinkers and business leaders. A quick and charming read, served up with plenty of surprising spin.”—Greg Spence, Emmy-winning producer of Game of Thrones and The Last of Us
“More than a workplace culture fixture in Silicon Valley startups, ping pong is one of the most accessible and widely played games in the world. In Ping Pong Leadership, Justin Bookey makes reading about his beloved sport fun—even as he reveals its hidden wisdom for life and leadership.”—Eric Schurenberg, former CEO of Inc. and Fast Company
“Whether you’re on the golf course, at the ping pong table, or any table—if you’re striving for peak performance, there is nothing more important than winning the mental game. Ping Pong Leadership brilliantly captures this connection between success in sports and success in life.”—Bob Rotella, New York Times bestselling author of How Champions Think
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9798891383432 |
| PRICE | US$19.95 (USD) |
| PAGES | 264 |
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Featured Reviews
Darya Y, Reviewer
Interesting way of talking about leadership through the lens of a ping pong table game. I have enjoyed the stories that described the leadership concepts and reflection questions at the end of each chapter. The unique point of this book definitely lays in the concept of a ping pong game: you have equipment, table, skills, attitude and you play a game with different counter players. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose and learn. Enjoying the game and gaining new skills each time can lead to mastery.
