Bob P. Buford - Game Plan: Winning Strategies for the Second Half of Your Life

Bob Bufords first book, Halftime, made a great impact on me. I needed that focused perspective! His sincere commitment to significance in life is an inspiration to many including me. Im excited about the opportunity to take another journey with Bob in Game Plan.

Elvis L. Mason

Managing Partner, Mason Best Company

In Halftime Bob Buford deeply struck a chord with thousands of middle-agers who yearn for something more. Now with Game Plan he shows them how to find it. Inspired by Bufords own remarkable midlife transition, these two books open a whole new world of possibilities for a generation uniquely positioned to give, and by giving to receive.

William T. Solomon

Chairman of the Board, Austin Industries, Inc.

Bob Buford and I have partnered together in challenges of various kinds for over a decade. I have enormous respect for him. And no one shares his enthusiasm for his Halftime insights more than I do. Heres to a scintillating and satisfying Second Half.

Bill Hybels

Senior Pastor, Willow Creek Community Church

Game Plan is the next step in the journey toward purpose-driven living. Bob has written another winner!

Rick Warren

Senior Pastor, Saddleback Valley Community Church

Though obviously a very committed Christian, Bob Bufords writings are applicable to individuals of any faith. He appropriately challenges all of us to make a difference in Halftime and helps us to develop our individual road map in Game Plan. His guidance should give readers the opportunity to fulfill their dreams in a much more significant way than in the first half of their life.

Ronald G. Steinhart

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Bank One, Texas

Bob Bufords Halftime is one of the best books Ive ever read on making the rest of your life the best of your life. In Game Plan, Bob takes his good thinking and shows you step-by-step how to make the second half of your life really work.

Ken Blanchard

Coauthor, The One Minute Manager

Bob Buford once again encourages us to wake up to what really matters in life, and then challenges us to have the fortitude to plan and live accordingly.

Dennis Bakke

President, The AES Corporation

Nearly everyone past forty has a choice. Do I drift into old age? Or do I believe the best years of my life are still ahead of me? If you choose the second alternative, you will need a game plan, and this book will help you design it.

Lyle E. Schaller

Parish Consultant

Bob is really in touch with the issues that challenge me and, I suspect, many other men. His wisdom combined with his thoughtful suggestions and challenges make his books truly unique.

Steven S. Reinemund

Chairman and CEO, Frito-Lay, Inc.

This successor to Halftime, his book on stock-taking at midlife, gives you the step-by-step instructions for doing what he had earlier simply recommended. If you are trying to decide what comes next for you, this is the book to help you do it.

William Bridges

Author, Transitions and JobShift

If you are in your forties or fifties, you may already be thinking of retirement. Bob Buford looks you in the eye and asks retire from what, to do what? In an open and engaging way, Game Plan tells us how and why everyone in the middle years of their life needs to change their view of success. Bobs own story of moving from mere achievement to magnified significance is inspiring, but more important, it is also a good map for those eager to embrace the future. So if youd like to do what you really want to do for the next thirty years or so, reading Game Plan is a strategic place to start.

Steve Hayner

President, Intervarsity Christian Fellowship

This book succeeds hugely, in describing the predictable moments of midlife passage, plotting the longitude and latitude of a man or womans forties and fifties. Buford is this eras cartographer to the human soul.

David G. Bradley

Chairman, The Advisory Board Company

Bob Buford lays out in crystal clear terms those ideologies and lifestyle approaches that make the mature years satisfying and meaningful. He gives a clear vision and sense of direction for a meaningful follow-up to the first half.

Norman Brinker

Chairman, Brinker International

In this book, Bob Buford helps us understand how to implement your game plan for the second half, with a goal-line objective of significance.

C. William Pollard

Chairman of the Board, The ServiceMaster Company

Bob Buford has an uncanny ability to understand the issues and emotions of those grappling with the rest of their lives. Game Plan takes the next step from defining the opportunity to making a strategy and taking action.

Leith Anderson

Senior Pastor, Wooddale Church

Bob Buford has done a remarkable job of taking stock at lifes intersections, then finding fresh ways to leverage his experiences, energies, and resources in service to others. Many find his insights catalysts for growth.

Harold L. Myra

President and Chief Executive Officer, Christianity Today, Inc.

Bob Buford challenges us to enjoy and appreciate the second half of lifes journey. It is our chance to exert our greatest influence. Game Plan offers great commonsense instructions to map the way. I highly recommend it.

Carl Sewell

Chairman, Sewell Motor Company

Author, Customers for Life

Game Plan guides us in our efforts to convert good intentions into effective and fulfilling action. Its an invaluable tool to produce results.

J. McDonald Williams

Chairman, The Trammell Crow Company

And from the best-selling Halftime:

This inspiring book comes out of the mind and heart of a truly remarkable individual and addresses an enormous need in our societyhow to find meaning and fulfillment in the second half of our lives. In short, how to move from success to significance!

Stephen R. Covey

Author, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Halftime by Bob Buford is a radically personal, honestly engaging, deeply moving, and spiritually challenging book. It confronts the reader with the crucial choice between success and fruitfulness, death and life, fear and love. It is a true call to conversion by a man for whom conversion has become an ongoing way of life.

Henri Nouwen

LArche Daybreak

This book is for successful people who want more fulfillment in their lives and realize it wont come from the next victory, the next sale, the next conquest, or a significant increase in their bottom line. Let Bob Buford be your guide to make sure your best years are ahead of you.

Ken Blanchard

Co-author of The One Minute Manager

When you know a man has touched the peaks of success in what he does, been in the pit of intense grief and suffering in what he has experienced, and made the resolute choice to serve God with all he has and is, you want to read whatever he might write about his life and thoughts. You want to learn the secrets heaven has whispered to him, to know his soul and walk his path. This book will make all of that possible.