Book
Will to win: New Zealand netball greats on team culture and leadership: New Zealand netball greats on team culture and leadership
Massey University Press
06/2020
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Abstract
This book is a fascinating deep-dive into the development of the Silver Ferns’ traditions, the evolution of team culture and the nuts-and-bolts of leadership at an elite level. Legendary players and coaches — including Lois Muir, Leigh Gibbs, Bernice Mene, Ruth Aitken and Casey Kopua — candidly discuss the highs and lows of their careers, and of the Silver Ferns, the effect of the intense rivalry with Australia, coping with gut-wrenching losses, and the resilience of players and coaches.
For the first time the perspective of these key actors is the subject of serious analysis, and Will to Win offers a real insight into the psychology of a women’s high-performance team. As such, it provides a practical guide for developing team culture and leadership for netball coaches at all levels. It also includes comments from Farah Palmer on women in sport and leadership, and a brief history of New Zealand netball, including the gains and losses as netball moved into a semi-professional era, and the struggles for sponsorship and for media recognition, despite it being New Zealand’s most popular team sport.
Details
- Title
- Will to win: New Zealand netball greats on team culture and leadership
- Creators
- Lana Margaret McCarthy (Author)Andy Martin (Author)Geoff Watson (Author)
- Publisher
- Massey University Press; Auckland, New Zealand
- Number of pages
- 1 online resource (255 pages)
- Identifiers
- 9780995113558; 0995113556; 9780995135482; 0995135487; 991013086113002368
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book