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

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It shows not only that the leader cares, but that he also might know a little something about the employee's personal life. And lastly, if you read or listen to the book, Coach K comes across as some pious, patriotic, red-blooded American. I personally believe everyone possesses leadership skills and whether they use them or not determines if they become a leader.

Der Kern seines Ansatzes ist es, als Anführer (leader klingt im englischen Buch bedeutend treffender) zwar die absolute Verantwortung für sein Team zu übernehmen, dabei aber so wenig wie möglich in das, was das Team tut einzugreifen. Approaching each season the same way, he extends himself to his players, encouraging them to spend time at his home and with his family, while emphasizing the importance of keeping up with academics and enjoying the overall experience of college. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Important dates for the upcoming semester are marked and reviewed, including things like: our first practice, the day new recruits are in town for a visit, special events at my home, and, of course, our schedule of games. and to reposition oneself as an evolving person, where eventual failures aren't a destination, but maybe the path to successes.If I can provide that kind of support system for our team-where the managers feel good, the assistants feel good, the freshman feels good about the senior, and the senior about the sophomore, and so on-then we're going to be that much stronger a team. Most of the time, they won't quibble with me-and they certainly can't hide their feelings from what their eyes reveal. We then hand out laminated cards that include the home and business phone numbers of every member of the team-including players, assistant coaches, and so on. I know that when my wife, Mickie, and I look at each other, we know what we're going to say is the truth.

And even if I don't yet understand every aspect of their personalities, at least I know the fabric of who they are. Somehow, just the fact that she would wait up, that she would take the time, meant more to me than the actual conversation. The book moves into his time with Duke as the head coach and his relationship with Nc State’s Jimmy V.I might tell them that we're going to have a lot of fun this year, that we're going to grow as a team. Now, in Leading with the Heart, Coach K talks about leadership-how you earn it, how you practice it, and how you use it to move your organization to the top. In his more than twenty years coaching the Blue Devils, Coach Mike Krzyzewski has made his program the most admired in the nation, with back-to-back national championships in '91, '92, and again in 2001, and ten Final Four appearances since 1986. It also allows me to show that I care about the kids on my team and it demonstrates that I'm trying to be fair-minded.

The lessons that I'm taking for me from this book have to do with the fist: Communication, Trust, Collective Responsibility, Caring, and Pride in making things happen - and that any finger open in the fist make it more prone to be broken (that's the intensity of semi-pro/professional sports).

Best-selling author Don Phillips brings history alive with crisp compelling prose and historical accuracy.

So I talked to the entire team about setting up a buddy system where everyone looked out for one another.If you are looking for a leadership book to read, pick up a dart and throw it at the board to choose as I find most books in this genre to be very similar. For ease of reading and remembering, each chapter ends with its main lessons learned: “Coach K’s Tips.