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LEADERSHIP MEMOIR
Bob Whitsitt began his career in pro sports as an intern in the Indiana Pacers' front office. Less than 10 years later, at age 30, he became the youngest top front-office executive in the NBA. As president and general manager of the Seattle SuperSonics, he overhauled a team in decline, making bold moves that paid off big.
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Game Changer: An Insider’s Story of the Sonics’ Resurgence, the Trail Blazers’ Turnaround, and the Deal that Saved the Seahawks chronicles Whitsitt's leadership of three of the Pacific Northwest's iconic sports franchises. To write the book, he pulled together an editorial and publishing team led by Girl Friday Productions. My role: to help Whitsitt weave dozens of stories together and shape the narrative arc into a cohesive, compelling book.
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The result: a leadership memoir that offers unprecedented behind-the-scenes insights on groundbreaking draft picks, trades, and acquisitions, team-saving negotiations.​
"Fascinating insider stories filled with 'WOW' moments, common sense, and creative craftiness backed by uncommon courage. High-level negotiations on a high wire!"
— Rick Allen, bestselling author of Inside Pitch: Insiders Reveal How the Ill-Fated Seattle Pilots Got Played into Bankruptcy in One Year
CORPORATE HISTORY
There were lots of unknowns when Brooks Running Company hired me to write a book about its first 100 years in business. It wouldn't be easy. Many records had been lost over the years, each time the company changed ownership. In six months, I reconnected with the company’s founding family, interviewed dozens of people, combed through reams of old photos, ads, catalogs and such, and got the job done — all on a crazy tight deadline.
Brooks liked the book so much, they distributed it more broadly than originally planned. In addition to handing out the book at its 100-year celebration and to newly hired employees, Brooks published Running Through the First 100 Years as an e-book, donating proceeds to underfunded track programs at high schools across the country.
