Golf and the Game of Leadership: An 18-Hole Guide for Success in Business and in Life.

• Author: Marshall, Jeffrey
• Position: BookShelf - Book Review

Golf and the Game of Leadership: An 18-Hole Guide for Success in Business and in Life. By Donald E. McHugh. Amacom, 246 pages. $21.

For my money, sports and business aren't always an easy mix. Think of all the corporate motivational cliches about "moving the ball down the field" and "hitting a home run." Now we have another addition to the literature, this with a golf theme: predictably, it has 18 chapters--and a 19th hole and a "pro shop" to boot.

Author McHugh, a consultant and former executive with General Motors Corp. and Owens-Illinois Inc., is obviously a big golf fan, and he managers to work in golf anecdotes with a number of points without getting too cutesy. Those who play it know that golf is a...