The Right Call

What Sports Teach Us About Leadership, Excellence, and Decision-Making

By: Sally Jenkins

Narrated by: Sally Jenkins

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

The Washington Post sportswriter and New York Times bestselling author of the “fascinating” (The Wall Street Journal) The Real All Americans presents a love letter to the extraordinary coaches and athletes she has covered over the years and the actionable principles of excellence they embody.

Sportswriter Sally Jenkins has spent her entire adult life observing and writing about great coaches and athletes. With her engaging and expert prose, she has helped shape the way we view these talented sports icons. But somewhere along the line, she realized, they had begun to shape her.

Now, she presents the astonishing inner qualities in these same people that pushed them to overcome pressure, elevate their performances, and discover champion identities. Based on years of observing, interviewing, and analyzing elite coaches and playmakers, such as Bill Belichick, Peyton Manning, Michael Phelps, and more, Jenkins reveals the seven principles behind success:

-Conditioning
-Practice
-Discipline
-Candor
-Culture
-Resilience
-Intention

Discover how you can apply these same principles to your life and become your own champion. Colorful, inspirational, and accessible, The Right Call is the one stop shop for anyone wanting to learn how to effectively elevate themselves to greatness.

revelatory- so smart, so much fun

work and love - what if we could have the best of both combined? Filled with great inside stories of leaders and followers,big C little c champions, how they progressed through limits and circumstances to do it the right way and do it with others, this book is a joyful insider's look and guide to sports and life at its most rewarding.

Great values couched in an easy to follow real life situations

The audio rendering by the author was very elegant and every word came from heart.
Well conceived and well rendered. I strongly recommend this book.

Outstanding

This is one of the best leadership books I have ever read. I highly recommend to any Military Officer who is continuing the journey towards excellence and improving their abilities to lead America’s sons and daughters.

Not just about sports.

Great motivation and perspective. Shared with sales team and others in the space. Loved the anecdotes and the development of the story.

Well written and interesting

This is an exceptionally well written and narrated book that I recommend without reservation. The sports vignettes are fascinating. The several principles that Jenkins draws from them for every day life are hard to argue with. That said, many of the athletes she focuses on like Mark Phelps or Diana Nyad are so single-minded in their pursuits that for me they did not really serve as the examples she intended. On the other hand I loved listening to the wisdom of a Steve Kerr or Pat Head Summit who struck me as much more relatable. Regardless, I enjoyed every chapter of the book whether it was enlightening or merely entertaining.