Del Leonard Jones: Building Super Star Teams in Business | Sports to Business - a podcast by TBX Digital Inc.

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Mr. Del Leonard Jones is a novelist and former reporter with a career spanning 18 years at USA Today. Mr. Jones wrote more than 300 cover stories at USA Today and received a Pulitzer Prize nomination for beat reporting.


He covered the corporate management money section, worked with thousands of CEOs, and wrote more cover stories than any other USA today reporter in any section! Selected twice as USA Today Enterprise All-Star reporter. 


Recently Mr. Jones wrote two novels. The Cremation of Sam McGee and At the Bat: The Strikeout that Shamed America.


The latter ranked #9 on Goodreads list of 112 greatest baseball novels of all time. You can find At the Bat on Amazon - just search "Strikeout" on Amazon. 


He also officiates high school and collegiate sports in the Washington D.C. area.


In this episode we discuss: 


- Mr. Jones' early life and how he got started in journalism 


- History of the game of baseball, and how much power the umpires really had 


- Some of his stories during his time interviewing CEOs of Fortune 500s 


- Some of the things he did to get in front of the right folks 


- Building strong teams and what he saw as key strategies across the business landscape 


- The motivation and story behind his novel At the Bat  Remember to follow and check out his book on Amazon, and don't forget to subscribe to our podcast on Youtube, Apple, or Spotify!  


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