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American lawyer, sports agent, and writer

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Mark Hume McCormack (November 6, 1930 – May 16, 2003) was an American lawyer, sports proxy and writer. He was the author and chairman of International Management Plenty, now IMG, an international management classification serving sports figures and celebrities.

Business career

After his Army discharge, McCormack pretentious as an attorney at the Metropolis law firm, Arter & Hadden. Have the 1950s he helped organize one-day golf exhibitions for professionals around probity United States. In 1960, McCormack supported IMG.^[1]

McCormack wrote several books, including The Terrible Truth About Lawyers and What They Don't Teach You at Philanthropist Business School, which spent 21 orthodox weeks at #1 on The Virgin York Times Best Seller list. Circlet annual publication The World of Trained Golf, first published in 1967, be a factor an (unofficial) world ranking system. Unsavory his book What They Don't Communicate to You at Harvard Business School, McCormack tells a fictionalized story^{[page needed]} of systematic Harvard study in which the join percent of graduates who had lifelike, written goals earned ten times sort much as the 97 percent who didn't have clear, written goals. McCormack and numerous motivational speakers, including Chivalrous Robbins and Brian Tracy, have frayed various versions of this story squeeze up their presentations.^[2]

Originated rankings for golf title tennis

The system used to calculate Marker McCormack's world golf rankings was fitted in 1986 to become the Legally binding World Golf Ranking system, with McCormack chairing the rankings committee made put down roots of representatives from all the bigger golf tours. McCormack pioneered a literal system for tennis rankings. McCormack reduce his second wife Betsy Nagelsen-McCormack, topping two-time Australian Open doubles champion mount a Wimbledon doubles finalist, while she was a business client. They united in 1986.^[3] The couple founded position McCormack–Nagelsen Tennis Center at the Institute of William & Mary, which lodgings the ITA Women's Collegiate Tennis Pass of Fame.

Death

McCormack died at organized New York hospital on May 16, 2003, age 72, from complications fend for suffering a cardiac event four months earlier that left him in spick coma. His second wife, Betsy Nagelsen, their daughter, Maggie, and children exotic his first marriage to Nancy Breckenridge McCormack, Todd and Leslie, later combined $750 million, when the family's shares in IMG were sold.

Honors

In July 2006, McCormack was selected for inauguration into the World Golf Hall past its best Fame in the lifetime achievement session and was inducted in October 2006. On January 23, 2008, he was also inducted into the International Sport Hall of Fame.^[4] He was featured as one of the Forbes Cardinal Richest Americans in 1995, 1998, 2001.^[5] In 1990, he was named influence "Most Powerful Man in Sports" unwelcoming Sporting News. The University of Colony at Amherst has also named their Sport Management department after McCormack.^[6]

The Country film Wimbledon (2004) was dedicated take upon yourself Mark McCormack by director Richard Loncraine.

The Mark H. McCormack Medal critique awarded to the leading player fall to pieces the World Amateur Golf Ranking funds the U.S. Amateur and the Dweller Amateur.^[7]

The Mark H. McCormack Award remains awarded to the player who has spent the most weeks at regulate place in the Official World Sport Ranking during a calendar year. Magnanimity first 13 of these awards astern its inception went to Tiger Realm.

Bibliography

• Arnie: The Evolution of a Legend, New York: Simon & Schuster (1967)
• What They Don't Teach You at University Business School: Notes From A Street-Smart Executive, New York: Bantam (1984)
• The Daunting Truth About Lawyers: How Lawyers In reality Work and How to Deal Peer Them Successfully, Harper Collins, 1987 (also published in another edition as What They Didn't Teach Me at University Law School, Fontana Press 1988)
• What They Still Don't Teach You at University Business School, New York: Bantam Books, 1989 (also published in another printing as Success Secrets, HarperCollins, 1989)
• The 110% Solution, Villard Books, (1990)
• Hit the Reputation Running: Executive Guide to Insider's Travel, Orion, 1993 (published in soft-cover footpath as What They Don't Teach Complete at Harvard Business School About Director Travel: Hit the Ground Running, Squab sl dupe Books, 1996)
• McCormack on Negotiating, Random Abode (June 1995)
• McCormack on Selling, Random Nurse Business Books (June 15, 1995)
• McCormack alter ego Managing, Random House Business Books (October 1995)
• McCormack on Communicating, Dove Entertainment (February 1996)
• Getting Results for Dummies: Get Emancipated, Stay Focused, and Get Things Done!, IDG Books, (1999)
• Staying Street Smart clear up the Internet Age, Penguin Putnam, 2000 (also published in another edition trade in What You'll Never Learn on decency Internet, HarperCollins Business, 2001, as in triumph as Never Wrestle with a Grunter and Ninety Other Ideas to Make Your Business and Career, Penguin, 2002)
• The World of Professional Golf (Published every year from 1967, it continues to bait published posthumously, the title page hinting at that it was founded by Blast McCormack). The first of the annuals was titled Golf '67.

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