Turnaround: Crisis, Leadership,and the Olympic GamesThe head of the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics organizing committee describes how he assumed the leadership of the troubled organization and turned it around to present one of the most successful Olympic Games ever. |
Contents
PROLOGUE | xiii |
SIZING UP THE OLYMPICS | 1 |
ANATOMY OF THE CRISIS | 23 |
STRATEGIC AUDIT | 39 |
BUILDING THE TEAM | 59 |
CULTURE | 83 |
THE BUDGET | 105 |
UNCERTAIN REVENUES | 117 |
FUNDS FROM THE FEDS | 225 |
REACHING INTO THE COMMUNITY | 243 |
SLOC AND THE MORMON CHURCH | 269 |
SECURING THE OLYMPIC GAMES | 285 |
SEPTEMBER 11 | 301 |
HEART AND MEANING | 315 |
THE GAMES HAVE ARRIVED | 343 |
EPILOGUE | 379 |
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