The Packer Way: Nine Stepping Stones to Building a Winning Organization

Sport is an overused metaphor for business, but Ron Wolf, Executive Vice President and General Manager of the U.S. National Football League's Green Bay Packers, surpasses the majority of management experts with his common-sense organizational wisdom. Recounting his turnaround of a languishing football franchise into a Super Bowl winner, Wolf (along with co-author Paul Attner) shows how he used the very principals he illustrates with his compelling sports analogies. While your organization may not compete on a stage as public as the NFL, you can use the same strategies. If these tactics can help the small-market Packers compete with teams from Chicago, New York and Los Angeles, they can certainly help your firm compete as well. We [...] especially recommend Wolf's "stepping stone" strategy of incremental improvement, which seems to us the equivalent of building a solid running game while your opponents lob Hail Marys.

In no-nonsense fashion, and with plenty of real-life examples , Wolf lays out the beliefs and strategies that worked for him in Green Bay, and that can be used by anyone, whether going it alone , running a small start-up, or working in a division or team in a larger company. The discipline, the dedication to a cause, the vision, are valuable insights for personal growth, as well. Of course, for Packer fans, the inside scoop, naming names, and background on hiring high-prolile individuals, is great stuff, life lessons aside. I plan to give a copy to each of my sons, who are just starting their carreers. Teriffic book!

Ron puts everything straight forward for you to understand. It's a management philosophy that really has worked for him and can work for you. It also throws in a football flair that tells you how his ideas were incorporated into his position. I recommend this book to all football fans and to someone looking to add the real world to their management ideals.

This book shows how Ron Wolf has utilized sound business principles, hard work and common sense to help make the Green Bay Packers as winners again, and the most successful professional football franchise over the last eighty years. The book is for any who enjoys a good read, and how one can manage more effectively.

The book was much better than I expected. Packer fans will be especially interested in the book because it gives a behind-the-scenes perspective of how Ron built the team. Any football fan who works in management, especially CEOs or small business owners, will find Ron's views to be informative. Ron is a proven winner who can teach us alot. A must read for true Packer fans!