After the Game

by Jay Dixon

• ISBN13: 9781637632673
• ISBN10: 1637632673
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2024-04-02
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Summary

What if you could harness the many invaluable lessons you learned as a college or professional athlete and apply them to your professional and personal life? In After the Game, former D1 college football player turned successful business leader Jay Dixon shows you how.

Crafted in the tradition of wisdom-rich business fables, After the Game combines a page-turning fictional narrative with a wealth of real-life lessons and insights designed to inform, advise, and inspire budding entrepreneurs and future CEOs.

You’ll discover:

• research that proves athletes are perfectly suited to own and lead businesses
• ten mindset elements that are crucial to your success at work and in life
• seven hands-on lessons that will accelerate your journey from idea to ownership
• a proven playbook to become a CEO eleven years faster than typical routes
• how self-awareness and emotional intelligence are vital on your path to CEO
• how to build a successful independent enterprise and achieve substantial personal growth
• . . . and much more.

With billions of dollars’ worth of small businesses set to be sold or passed down as baby boomers move into their retirement years, opportunities abound for savvy entrepreneurs to learn to acquire, lead, and sell those businesses—and no demographic is more poised and prepared to do so than former athletes.

This is your time. Don’t stand on the sidelines another minute. Get up, get ready, and get back in the action. A glorious new future awaits.

Author Biography

Jay is an expert at the intersection of sports and business, having cofounded three companies and consulted or participated in 50+ transactions. After a successful career consulting other business owners of companies, both big and small, along with supporting research, Jay contends the athletic education is the link between mediocrity and greatness in business. He started an elite accelerator for athletes, SuccessCoach.com, that blends the mindset strategies of elite CEOs and an actionable playbook to transition athletic talents into thriving business ventures.

Jay was a student-athlete at the University of Nevada where he played football. He has a master’s in English Literature from National University and has been recognized for Business Excellence in Venture Capital / Private Equity from Columbia Business School where he has pursued his MBA as well.