Two-Minute Drill

In Two-Minute Drill (Josey-Bass), authors Clinton O. Longenecker, Greg R. Papp and Timothy Stansfield explore lessons for rapid organizational improvement by studying how football teams score when the game is winding down. It's not an easy thing to do, the authors say: "Elevating personal and group efforts to a level beyond normal represents a challenge and, quite frankly, is not sustainable over long periods. It exacts a toll."

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