New Book Compares Dog Training to Tactics in the Workplace

COLLEGE STATION, TX, August 31, 2012 (Press-News.org) John Covington relates dog training to working with people in the workplace in his thoughtful and inspiring new book, What I Learned about Leadership from My Dog.

While training his newest addition to the family, a German Shepherd named Maggie, Covington realized the correlation between dogs and people. He promotes that dogs are great labs to improve our leadership as they provide instant and honest feedback, so the relationship building and leadership required to work with dogs is exactly the same as it is with people.

John breaks his book up between true, and sometimes knee-slapping, stories of his experience as the CEO of Chesapeake Consulting and the training of Maggie and other dogs in his obedience group for working dogs, all the while managing to find the hidden connection between the two.

John Covington is a trainer and handler of working dogs and the CEO of Chesapeake Consulting. He was educated at the US Naval Academy and the University of Alabama, earning a BS in Chemical Engineering. He is active in community affairs and has written four previous books.

What I Learned about Leadership from My Dog is available in softcover (ISBN 978-1-62137-110-6) and eBook (ISBN 978-1-62137-111-3) from Virtualbookworm.com, Amazon.com, and Barnesandnoble.com. This book can also be ordered from most bookstores around the United States and United Kingdom. More information can be found at the author's website, covingtonbooks.com.

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