You dont't get the culture you HOPE FOR,
You get the one you DESIGN!
When you have a GREAT CULTURE
You'll be prepared for CHALLENGES.
When you DON'T,
Be PREPARED for more of them
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Building a great team culture doesn’t happen overnight. Culture is hard to create, and even harder to change. Great culture is a key component for success at home, on the sports field, and at the workplace. In a time when people are more divided than ever, leaders who can build strong and lasting cultures are essential. No one knows this better than internationally-renowned coach and business leader, Martin Rooney— based on his two decades of building successful business cultures, coaching professional sport teams and consulting Fortune 500 companies, Martin uses his gift of storytelling to reveal the leadership secrets of building a great team.
High Ten: An Inspiring Story About Building Great Team Culture, follows the story of Brian Knight. He’s spent the last thirty years coaching sport teams and businesses how to improve their culture and communication, but after a devastating loss, Brian finds himself lacking purpose. After a chance meeting, Brian is called upon to use his experience and wisdom to help two people: a new coach and a young CEO. As they solve each other's problems, all three men become connected in a way none of them expected.
Whether you are a sport coach, business owner, parent, spouse, co-worker, or manager, the leadership lessons in High Ten are designed to help you build a great team and design the culture of your dreams. Written in the style of a simple parable, this inspiring book gives you an easy-to-use, yet highly effective Cultural Roadmap to bring out the best in yourself and your people.
Based on his two decades of building successful business cultures, coaching professional sport teams and consulting Fortune 500 companies, Martin Rooney uses his gift of storytelling to reveal the leadership secrets of building a great team.
Packed with motivational stories, High Ten is a engaging tale that will empower you to fulfill the ultimate job of a leader: to create an environment filled with trust, purpose and fun.
High Ten is an easy-to-read story that gives you a simple, yet highly effective Cultural Roadmap to bring out the best in yourself and your people.
Whether you’re a sport coach, business owner, parent, spouse, co-worker, or manager, the leadership lessons in High Ten will help you:
“Winning at the highest level is not one or two big things, it’s a thousand little things done right. The details of culture are first and foremost. Culture is the heart and soul of every great team and can not be left to chance. High Ten proves culture is not an accident - it’s an action.”
Phil Simms
Superbowl MVP
Analyst CBS Sports
“I’ve coached teams from four different nations and culture is the most important step in building a team. If the team is not on the same page culturally, working together toward a common goal is extremely hard. Let Martin’s book help you find the Keepers and lose your Vultures.”
Todd Hays
Olympic Silver Medalist
Coach to 6 Olympic Medalists and 13 World Championship Medalists
Head Coach Bobsleigh Canada
“Winning certainly matters, but building cohesive teams requires establishing and sustaining a positive organizational culture that will ultimately deliver performance. High Ten delivers with the ‘Culture Coach’ – an outstanding lesson in mentor-mentee relationships that highlights the importance of a lifelong learning mindset.”
Colonel Nicholas Gist
Director, Department of Physical Education
“Master of the Sword”
United States Military Academy
“Few people recognize racing as a team sport, but a group of athletes, engineers, mechanics, and a driver all contribute individual talents to drive the team’s success. Successful teams have an unselfish culture where teammates can challenge each other to grow while holding each other accountable to the mission. High Ten can help you build that type of team.”
Jeremy Bullins
NASCAR Crew Chief
Team Penske
“On every team across every sport and every business, a cohesive and inclusive culture remains the most fundamental objective. When a coach or leader wins the team’s heart and respect, success always follows closely behind. For building a powerful culture, I give this book a High Ten!”
Howie Long
NFL Hall of Fame
Super Bowl Champion and 8-time Pro Bowl
Analyst Fox Sports
“Culture is the backbone of any team or organization. A weak one will crumble, while a strong one will give a unified purpose to all and help you achieve your ultimate goals. High Ten will make your culture-game strong!”
Claus Souza
Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach
Denver Nuggets
“Respect, inclusion, and teamwork are at the foundation of every great team. These winning hallmarks can also be difficult for a coach or leader to develop. Martin’s book gives you the tools to identify and solve some of the the biggest challenges facing your team.”
Kyle Shanahan
Head Coach San Francisco 49ers
“Culture is a powerful force that improves teamwork and creates sustained success. If you want to improve your team, business or relationships, read this book!”
Jon Gordon
Best-Selling Author of The Energy Bus and The Power of Positive Leadership
“To lead out of hard situations, I found a well-trained team with a culture of excellence, competition and resilience is critical to success. If I didn’t have a team with great culture fighting for me, I would not be here today. Hopefully you’ll never need your team to save your life like me, but the information in High Ten might save your business.”
Jason Redman
US Navy SEAL (Retired)
Recipient of the Bronze Star Medal and Purple Heart
NY Times Best Selling author of The Trident and Overcome
“MMA is the epitome of an individual sport, but I learned it takes a team to get you properly prepared. A positive culture can make an average team reach for excellence and a negative culture can bring down the best. This book will help you build a team to succeed.”
Forrest Griffin
UFC Light Heavyweight Champion and Hall of Fame
Vice President of Athlete Development, UFC Performance Center
“Being part of a great team gives you confidence and direction as an athlete. To be side by side with a teammate chasing greatness creates a culture of winning. Let High Ten show you how to be a better leader of culture.”
Frankie Edgar
UFC Lightweight Champion
“As the leader of any organization or team, developing a culture of trust and discipline is your number one priority. There are few things as satisfying as working toward a common goal with a team of people you appreciate and admire. Read this book and you will be on your way to building that type of team.”
Lieutenant General Anthony Burshnick, US Air Force (Retired)
12th Commandant of the United States Air Force Academy
“High Ten proves to achieve success in an industry that is both uniquely collaborative and highly competitive, it's critical to build a team that feels respected, trusted, appreciated, and heard. That feels cared for and inspired. If you can create that environment, anything is possible...absolutely anything!"
Karen Baker Landers
Two-Time Oscar Award Winner for Best Sound
The Bourne Ultimatum and Skyfall
“Football is a team sport in which culture can make all the difference. I have watched Martin create winning team culture with both teams and businesses. This book shows you how to do it.”
Greg Olsen
14 Year NFL Veteran
3-time Pro Bowl
Analyst Fox Sports
“BOTH HANDS ON DECK! - Martin Rooney is once again ON POINT and ON FIRE. In his latest book, High Ten, he clarifies business culture, team productivity and personal inspiration that you can take to a new level of success. This “story within a story” will leave you and your team members blessed, changed for the better, and in position to win.”
Jeffrey Gitomer
Best-Selling Author of Get Sh*t Done and The Little Red Book of Selling
“High Ten is a culture bedrock from which to build any organization or
team. Through gripping stories and an experienced lens, this will have
every leader ready to positively impact their own environments and
better cultivate future success.”
Casey Brown
Head Coach, University of Pennsylvania Women’s Soccer
Patriot League Coach of the Year
All-American and WPS Soccer Draftee
”The building of a team and a culture is driven by trust. Embracing and genuinely loving one another is the method by which trust is built. Martin Rooney’s book shows you how to build the kind of trust necessary to create a winning team.”
Matthew Driscoll
Head Coach University of North Florida Men’s Basketball
Winningest coach in program history
3-time ASUN Coach of the Year
“Successful enterprises are built on an organizational culture that empowers everyone to embrace the purpose of a day as if they are part of a movement or a cause. High Ten lays out how to forge the warrior spirit that defines highly successful teams.”
Don Katz
Audible Founder and Executive Chairman
“Everyone knows culture is at the core of every great team, but few people know how to build it. High Ten is your blueprint for assessing and adjusting your current culture. If you are a leader in any capacity, let Martin help turn your team into a great group of fire-breathing dragons!”
Todd Durkin, MA, CSCS
Founder, Fitness Quest 10
CEO, Todd Durkin Enterprises
IDEA & ACE, Trainer of the Year
Author of The Impact Body Plan and Get Your Mind Right
“To build a winning culture, a team must value selfishness, integrity, loyalty and accountability. The great teams maintain these values during the toughest times. If your goal is to get your organization to buy into your values, the story of High Ten is your blueprint to do it.”
Scott Goodale
Head Coach Rutgers Wrestling
Winningest coach in program history
2019 NCAA Coach of the Year
