Great businesses emulate the Yankees by finding and keeping the best and brightest talent available. You don't have to pay Yankee-sized salaries, but Berger shows that any business, in order to be successful, needs to develop or hire away from the competition at least one superstar. He explains the Yankees' management strategy for balancing superstars with stars, solid performers, and other key role players, and techniques for developing a deep talent pool. Applying these smart principles to the business world, Berger shows you how to cultivate winning values from the top down; how to establish a standard of excellence above and beyond your competition; and ten other timeless principles that make the Yankees a powerhouse year after year.

The Yankees, in the context of this book, serve as a metaphor for sustained organizational and business excellence. The iconic characters, from owners to managers to players, who have served in the Yankees organization for the past eighty years are symbolic of the types of people we manage and work with every day in our work environments. If you want to build your business into a championship organization, Management Wisdom from the New York Yankees' Dynasty will show you how to step up to the plate and swing for the fences.

Love 'em or hate 'em, the New York Yankees have been America's winningest sports franchise for most of a century—and there's no arguing with success. Since the 1920s, the Yankees have dominated Major League Baseball, appearing in thirty-nine World Series and winning twenty-six. No other team comes close. But what accounts for the team's phenomenal long-term success and consistent performance? Why do so many players have the best years of their careers while playing for the Yankees? And what if your business could duplicate that excellence? This book reveals fourteen core management principles behind the Yankees' eighty-year dynasty and shows you how to apply them in your own organization.

Author Lance Berger is a management consultant to Fortune 500 companies and has served as a consultant to Major League Baseball. After looking deeply into the history of the Yankees organization, Berger discovered that many of the same principles that made the Yankees great were also driving the success of his business clients. These include:

• Create a balance between superstars, stars, and solid performers
• Set the bar higher than your people have ever seen it
• Cultivate ownership values from the top down
• Make the superstar the focal point of your organization
• Hire the best frontline managers you can find
• Formally recognize your informal leaders
• Celebrate your history, heroes, and legends

These and other core principles emerged in the 1920s under the leadership of owner Jacob Ruppert and have been developed and refined by owners and management teams ever since. For business leaders who want to build a championship organization, this fascinating book offers time-tested management techniques that will turn any team—in sports or in business—into a long-term winner.