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US 'Miracle on Ice" Goalie, Jim Craig writes business book with Don Yaeger

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Gold Medal Strategies: Business Lessons From America's Miracle Team

ISBN: 978-0-470-92806-6
Hardcover
240 pages
April 2011
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Jim Craig (Middleboro, MA) is the celebrated goalie on the 1980 U.S. Olympic team, --the "Miracle on Ice."  When Jim retired from pro hockey, he pursued a marketing and sales career, and took an operating unit that had $300,000 in annual sales to $50 million in annual sales.  Today Jim is a motivational speaker to corporate audiences across America and a spokesperson for W.L. Gore.

Jim is currently president of Gold Medal Strategies, a Boston-area based motivational speaking and sales training company that also manages and represents Jim and his appearance business.  Over the past 30 years, Jim has inspired, instructed, and provided strategic and winning direction for employees and associates from more than 500 organizations and some of the world’s most recognized brands in the country.   Jim is in demand from coast to coast and internationally as a motivational speaker, spokesperson, marketing and sales strategist, and master storyteller. 

Don Yaegar (Tallahassee, FL) is a former Sports Illustrated editor and the co-author of four sports-related New York Times bestsellers. He is also a frequent motivational speaker on lessons he's learned from sports legends like Walter Peyton, John Wooden, etc.  He is a frequent contributor to several nationally syndicated sports programs, including Fox News, ESPN, and numerous morning shows.