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One of sport's most popular personalities and arguably the most successful current manager in professional baseball, Joe Torre is an icon of determination, dedication and passion. Thirteen straight playoff appearances.  Six American League pennants.  Four World Series titles.  His journey is one of fortitude, tenacity and the relentless pursuit of a dream. 

In 1996, Torre led sport's most storied franchise, the New York Yankees, to their first World Series win in 18 years and they continued to dominate baseball for the next decade.  In 2008, Torre joined the Los Angeles Dodgers and led them to the division title, giving the club their first playoff series win in 20 years.  Drawing from his incredible success on and off the field, Torre now shares his leadership wisdom to help other managers achieve amazing results.  Steadiness, optimism, serenity.  Absolute loyalty and mutual respect.  Torre provides exceptional insight and practical examples on how to understand people and work with their individual differences without sacrificing the team's purpose or integrity.

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A Baseball Dynasty

When he took over as manager of the New York Yankees in 1996, the most storied franchise in sports had not won a World Series title in eighteen years. The famously tough and mercurial owner, George Steinbrenner, had fired seventeen managers during that span. Torre's appointment was greeted with Bronx cheers from the notoriously brutal New York media, who cited his record as the player and manager who had been in the most Major League games without appearing in a World Series.  Twelve tumultuous and triumphant years later, Torre left the team as the most beloved and successful manager in the game. In an era of multimillionaire free agents, fractured clubhouses, revenue-sharing, and off-the-field scandals, Torre forged a team ethos that united his players and made the Yankees, once again, the greatest team in sports. He won over the media with his honesty and class, and was beloved by the fans.

Leading Others to Winning Results

Torre is the co-author of several bestselling books including: the inspirational management guide Joe Torre's Ground Rules for Winners: 12 Keys to Managing Team Players, Tough Bosses, Setbacks, and Success and Chasing the Dream: My Lifelong Journey to the World Series, a memoir. His most recent book, The Yankee Years, is a sweeping narrative of Torre's tenure with The New York Yankees.  Torre has worked with many Fortune 500 companies across the country, as a keynote speaker, management consultant and as a spokesperson.  In 2002, Torre and his wife, Ali, launched the Joe Torre Safe at Home Foundation whose mission is to develop educational programs that will end the cycle of domestic violence and save lives.

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Ground Rules for Winners: 12 Keys to Managing Team Players, Tough Bosses, Setbacks, and Success

With four World Series Championships under his belt in five years, who better to give advice on managing than one of the most beloved and successful managers in baseball, Joe Torre. With entertaining stories from his experiences with the teams he has managed, he reveals the twelve keys to his successful management philosophy that are directly applicable to business and to life, from how to handle tough bosses to earning the trust and respect of your team players.  Audiences will be enriched by Torre's practical examples of his successes and failures with the sport's elite as well as the application of his "12 keys to managing" that will lead listeners to attempt to modify communications with problem team members, motivate their players, or change their approach to a "bad" boss.

Conquering Challenges and Capturing the Dream

When Joe Torre was fired as manager of the St. Louis Cardinals in 1995, he thought his career in baseball was over. After more than three decades and 4,200 games as a player and manager, one thing had always eluded him--winning a World Series.  He had all but given up his dream when the New York Yankees made him an offer to manage their 1996 club.  Encouraged by his wife and others, he accepted, and so began one of the greatest seasons in the fabled history of the New York Yankee franchise and one of the most inspiring, heartwarming stories in all of baseball.  For at the same time that Torre was overcoming the odds on the field, his family was facing much greater hardships off the field.  Hear Torre speak candidly and offer insight and understanding about the challenges and struggles of personal and professional hardship, his strategies and techniques for uniquely handling each, and how it all ended in a fairy-tale moment not even the best Hollywood scriptwriter could imagine.  

The Yankee Years

Torre takes audiences inside the dugout, the clubhouse, and the front office in a revelatory presentation that reveals what it really took to keep the Yankees on top of the baseball world.  Torre offers sage advice on how to keep your calm, your team's respect, and keep winning in the face of seemingly insurmountable obstacles and unexpected adversity.

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