{"product_id":"9798891886971","title":"Inside the Lines","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe US Open Almost Didn’t Happen\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmerican tennis was already in trouble long before the world shut down. Participation had fallen by nearly half since 1979, and at the end of 2019, no American man ranked among the world’s top ten. Mike Dowse took over as CEO of the United States Tennis Association ten weeks before the pandemic closed the sport down entirely.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eInside the Lines\u003c\/i\u003e is his account of what followed: a sealed bubble in Queens, a US Open played to an empty stadium, and a governance fight that revealed how a century-old institution really works.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReaders will learn how to:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eLead an organization through a crisis with no precedent to follow\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eRecognize when tradition has quietly replaced mission\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eMake hard calls kindly, a philosophy Dowse calls courage over comfort\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eRead the politics operating beneath any legacy institution\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eUnderstand why incumbents underestimate challengers until it is too late\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart memoir and part case study in institutional change, \u003ci\u003eInside the Lines\u003c\/i\u003e is written for anyone who has tried to modernize an organization that would rather not change.","brand":"Simon and Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":60378521600286,"sku":"9798891886971","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/8436\/0222\/files\/9798891886971.jpg?v=1792445437","url":"https:\/\/shop.simonandschuster.com\/products\/9798891886971","provider":"Simon and Schuster","version":"1.0","type":"link"}