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Product Description AMAZON BEST SELLER IN WORKPLACE CULTURE Kristine Lilly is a legendary athlete: she played midfielder for the United States Women’s National Soccer Team for over twenty-three years. This included five FIFA World Cups and three Olympic Games. She was inducted into the US Olympic Hall of Fame in 2012 and the US Soccer Hall of Fame in 2014. Before that, she won four national championships at The University of North Carolina. During this remarkable career, Lilly gained unprecedented insights into how high-performing teams work together, on and off the field. In Powerhouse: 13 Teamwork Tactics that Build Excellence and Unrivaled Success, she teams up with Dr. John Gillis Jr. to help readers and their businesses: • Transform• Empower• Achieve• Motivate Using Lilly and Gillis’s insights, readers can revolutionize teams in their organizations so that they can achieve sustainable excellence and peerless success. The tactics they share, supported by Dr. Lynette Gillis’s academic research, dig deep into the dynamics of collaborative work and highlight the actions readers can take to empower their teams. Review “Kristine Lilly and I share sustained careers with teams who have consistently achieved—hers at the World Cup and Olympics and mine at the Super Bowl. While individuals focus on their own peak performance, a championship-caliber team needs high performing teamwork. If you didn’t already know why the United States Women’s National Soccer Team consistently wins, you will after reading this book.” —Tom Brady, six time Super Bowl Champion, New England Patriots “With engaging anecdotes and timely advice, Kristine Lilly and her coauthors capture how the values of sports, especially teamwork, apply to anyone leading organizations. Powerhouse provides a winning game plan from one of our greatest champions.” —Adam Silver, Commissioner of the National Basketball Association (NBA); No. 1 most influential person in sports according to Sports Business Journal (2016) “Powerhouse shows us how teams perform under pressure – whether it is in sports, in business or in life. Kristine Lilly is a superstar on and off the field and she has crafted a strong read on how champions adjust and adapt to build a winning team.” —Billie Jean King, Founder of founder of the Women's Tennis Association, Women's Sports Foundation, and the Billie Jean King Leadership Initiative “As a US Army General, I personally experienced the importance of high-performing teamwork during 36 years of service. Whether in Vietnam or Desert Storm, our units, from platoons to much higher headquarters, needed to execute. Lilly and Gillis capture timeless teamwork tactics that will accelerate any team towards success! While on a non-profit board, I worked with Dr. John Gillis, Jr. on strategy development. This is a critical teamwork tactic needed to flourish in the business world, and Powerhouse captures many more. This is a must-read this year—by each and every person who is on a team.” —General James T. Hill, United Stated Army “In business as in sports, it is thrilling to beat the competition through superior thinking and execution. Kristine Lilly draws on her remarkable history of winning at the highest level of world sport to distill the critical lessons for team formation and performance as the basis of enduring success.” —Dr. Gary W. Loveman, former Chairman and CEO, Caesars Entertainment; Senior Lecturer in Finance, Graduate School of Business, Harvard University “Research by the Center for Creative Leadership confirms the critical importance of teamwork and collaboration in driving performance – and the memorable stories in this book show us how to bring these skills to life. In exploring the links between leadership and world-class soccer, the authors inspire us to put their insights to use right away with our own teams.” —John R. Ryan, President and CEO, Center for Creative Leadership “Our Olympic gold medalist Women’s National Basketball team kn