Larger Agenda Ser.: The X Factor : A Quest for Excellence by George Plimpton...

Description: George Plimpton is embarrassed. The noted amateur of odd sporting experience has lost one horseshoe match to George Bush, a match that was as much a test of wills as of skills. Now Bush has invited him back for a rematch. How to avoid humiliation the second time? What is that quality - we'll call it the X Factor - that all winners, from famous athletes to successful CEOs, seem to possess? Plimpton sets out to find it. The quest for this elusive ingredient is both hilarious and informative, leading from the locker room to the boardroom, with several strange stops in between. Plimpton corners superstars like Bill Russell and Billie Jean King, famous coaches, the chairman of American Express, sports doctors, and M and A king Henry Kravis, and puts the same question to all of them: What is it that allows an individual, or a team, to outperform competitors who are no less gifted, mentally and physically? Their answers run the gamut from motivational rage to new-age meditation, and Plimpton slowly pieces together a definition of this mysterious winning quality.This book is part of a large collection from the estate of an avid collector. This book has been carefully stored.

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Signed: No

Ex Libris: No

Narrative Type: Nonfiction

Original Language: English

Item Length: 8 in

Intended Audience: Ages 9-12, Young Adults, Adults

Inscribed: No

Edition: First Edition

Vintage: Yes

Personalize: No

Type: Novel

Era: 1990s

Item Height: 10 in

Personalized: No

Features: Dust Jacket, Illustrated

Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

Item Weight: 20 oz

Item Width: 0.5 in

Publisher: Whittle Communications

Book Title: X Factor : a Quest for Excellence

Publication Year: 1990

Topic: General, Presidents & Heads of State, Motivational & Inspirational, Personal Growth / Success

Number of Pages: 88 Pages

Language: English

Illustrator: Yes

Genre: Self-Help, Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics

Author: George Plimpton

Book Series: Larger Agenda Ser.

Format: Hardcover