Building Powerhouse teams
and developing tomorrow’s leaders

“With engaging anecdotes and timely advice, Kristine Lilly and her co-authors capture how the values of sports, especially teamwork, apply to anyone leading organizations in any environment.  This book provides a winning game plan from one of our great champions.”

“Kristine Lilly and I share sustained careers with teams who have consistently achieved – hers at the World Cup and Olympics and mine at the Super Bowl. While individuals focus on their own peak performance, a championship-caliber team needs high performing teamwork. If you didn’t already know why the United States Women’s National Soccer Team consistently wins, you will after reading this book about the importance of teamwork.”

“Our Olympic gold medalist Women’s National Basketball team knows well these 13 teamwork tactics that Kristine’s women’s national soccer team demonstrate in Powerhouse.  The lessons in this book will help your team reach its high performing potential. It stretches your understanding of what effective teamwork really means, and provides an actionable guide on how you can turn your teamwork possibilities into gold medal winning probabilities!”

“When I was CEO, our team grew Calvin Klein’s global retail sales from $2.8 to $7.7 Billion in ten years. The workplace is not a place for mediocrity or settling. You need team members showing up every day to win, to do their best, to succeed, and to come out ahead. When team members find “A Great Fit”, they find a place where they belong, where their talents are both fully expressed and needed, and where they can serve the greatest number of people. Lilly, Gillis and Gillis capture timeless principles that will accelerate any team towards success like this!”

“In business as in sports, it is thrilling to beat the competition through superior thinking and execution. Kristine Lilly draws on her remarkable history of winning at the highest level of world sport to distill the critical lessons for team formation and performance as the basis of enduring success.”

“Whether in Vietnam or Desert Storm, our units—from platoons to much higher headquarters—needed to execute. Lilly, Gillis, and Gillis capture timeless teamwork tactics that will accelerate any team towards success! This is a must-read by each and every person who is on a team.”