Leading With the Heart: Coach K's Successful Strategies for Basketball, Business, and Life

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They just serve to separate the athlete from the rest of the student body and rob him of the opportunity to integrate with others. For managers and people who lead, it’s nice reminders but not enough to choose it over other management self help books.

It just seems like a team should still be able to perform better than that if the head coach misses games. LEADING WITH THE HEART chronicles Coach K’s background in a Polish Chicago neighborhood, where he was guided by parents who demanded honesty and integrity. Now Coach K offers the insights he uses to coax peak performances from his team, relying on lessons he learned as a captain in the U. In this book, Coach K talks about the types of players he wants to coach, and what type of leader he want to be. Time management is a lesson that the students learn through us-not only as it relates to them individually, but as it pertains to a group.Bestselling author Don Phillips brings history alive with his trilogy on American leadership ( The Founding Fathers on Leadership , Lincoln on Leadership , Martin Luther King, Jr. Another useful insight is his view on determining what constitutes to be successful - that it should be something personal and never something dictated entirely by external factors. He has received five National Coach of the Year Awards -- and many of the players he coached in college have gone on to NBA stardom! Then I'll usually pop in with something like: "Just remember, the managers are part of our team-as is everyone here.

The book moves into his time with Duke as the head coach and his relationship with Nc State’s Jimmy V. And even if I don't yet understand every aspect of their personalities, at least I know the fabric of who they are.Well it's easy to copy off of someone else's paper, use someone else's paper, bring information into a test that you're not allowed to bring in, things like that. As a head coach, I personally do not want to represent a school that brings in twenty people over five years and have only two of them graduate. After gaining everyone's complete attention-so that they're all looking me straight in the eye-I will say one final thing to them. And when I got to the house, my mom would be waiting up-not to check on me, but to talk to me a little bit. It shows not only that the leader cares, but that he also might know a little something about the employee's personal life.