Entitled to Nothing is an inside look at a championship culture built with an uncommon approach to leadership. Bob Walsh joined forces with a team of tough, hungry young men to create a level of ownership that led to sustained, elite success. Together they discovered an experience inside a demanding culture that did more than just win basketball games. It had a transformational impact on their lives. In September of 2005, Rhode Island College, a division III state school in Providence, RI, hired their third men's basketball coach in as many years. Bob Walsh, a respected Providence College assistant, took over a program at a commuter school with no real identity or history of basketball success. Nine years later Walsh had built a national power, known for their toughness and competitive edge. The Anchormen won 204 games over those nine seasons, including 11 conference regular season and tournament titles. Without an NCAA appearance in nearly 30 years, RIC became one of just five teams in America to play in eight straight NCAA Tournaments, including three trips to the Sweet Sixteen and one magical run to the Elite Eight. Entitled to Nothing provides unfettered access to Walsh's transparent style and the leadership lessons applied throughout a championship journey. Along the way, he asked questions that challenged standard group think and the traditional leadership model, leading to new thought processes and behaviors. Walsh offers an inside look at a game plan for sustained success, one that translates to elite performance in any organization focused on team building. Entitled to Nothing will encourage you to discover and refine your own unique leadership approach.
Dr. Bob Walsh has been a public school teacher for forty-eight years...teaching classes in mathematics and computer science from the sixth grade through graduate school. He also has coached coss country, track, swimming and baseball during this tenure. He was born in Chicago to an Irish Catholic family and raised in the western suburb of Westchester. He is the third child (of six) of Don and Betty Walsh. He wen to schools in Illinois, New York, Indiana and Kentucky. He is the proud father, grandfather, teacher, coach and mentor to two beautiful daughters and four fabulous grandchildren. The enclosed is the first in a series of essays and musings on those adventures of growing up, going to school, teaching school and coaching." -- from back cover
Bob Walsh writes of the passion of Jesus Christ as if the reader is actually present to witness the horrific, heart-breaking events as they occurred. These are graphically described using information recorded in the Bible, Catholic Church teachings, studies of the Holy Shroud, visions by the saints, and ancient history. The author's hope in writing from such a perspective is to provide a more personal insight into what Christ endured for you ... and for all of us. To reflect upon the passion of Jesus Christ in this way can be quite a disturbing experience ... but at the same time, it can also provide an indication of how greatly Christ loves each of us. As you read the utterly horrific nature of what Christ was subjected to, remember this. If you were the only one alive, He would still have endured it all ... just for you. May that realization sustain and encourage you to allow the light of Christ to guide you on your journey through the darkness of physical life.
Bob Walsh presents the very words of God from the Bible to serve as a guide for us all in our search for love, peace and happiness in life. God's words provide a priceless treasure map that leads to Heaven based upon God's specific directions.This treasure map describes the breath-taking beauty awaiting us in Paradise, and for some of us, the mercy of Purgatory. Importantly, God's words also warn us of the unspeakable agony in Hell awaiting those who follow the wrong roads in life.Bob's hope is that you will follow “God's Guide” to light your way through life's temptations, struggles, challenges and inevitable tragedies, and that His treasure map will lead you to God in Heaven.
How three football legends -- Bill Walsh, Joe Gibbs, and Bill Parcells -- won eight Super Bowls during the 1980s and changed football forever. Bill Walsh, Joe Gibbs and Bill Parcells dominated what may go down as the greatest decade in pro football history, leading their teams to a combined eight championships and developing some of the most gifted players of all time in the process. Walsh, Gibbs and Parcells developed such NFL stars as Joe Montana, Lawrence Taylor, Jerry Rice, Art Monk and Darrell Green. They resurrected the careers of players like John Riggins, Joe Theismann, Doug Williams, Everson Walls and Hacksaw Reynolds. They did so with a combination of guts and genius, built championship teams in their own likeness, and revolutionized pro football like few others. Their influence is still evident in today's game, with coaches who either worked directly for them or are part of their coaching trees now winning Super Bowls and using strategy the three men devised and perfected. In interviews with more than 150 players, coaches, family members and friends, GUTS AND GENIUS digs into the careers of three men who overcame their own insecurities and doubts to build Hall of Fame legacies that transformed their generation and continue to impact today's NFL.
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Heather Macy returns home to become a partner in her father's law firm in a city in southern Pennsylvania. Macy House is in a village across the Mason-Dixon line in Maryland. Heather's father, W. Henry Macy, inherited the General's Farm in 1973. The M-D line happens to run through it. Heather encounters two simultaneous murder investigations. The murders, separated by thirty years, were committed on the same spot, but the bodies were buried on opposite sides of the border. Heather meets a hermit who has been keeping a record for thirty years of visiting car license plates. He started the diary after the first murder. The DNA that the Pennsylvania police gathers matches the remain in the Maryland case. Heather unravels the DNA connection and locates both murder weapons. Henry's twin brother, Arthur, writes a deathbed letter identifying who, he believes, committed the 1973 murder. Some arrests are made. One testimony triggers a series of conspiracy confessions by others. One of the 2003 license plate numbers is an accurate but misleading clue.
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