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

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I loved his examples of players and actual games which showed his teachings on communication,commitment,trust and collective responsibility. Then I'll usually pop in with something like: "Just remember, the managers are part of our team-as is everyone here. Dieses Buch muss jeder Spieler, jeder Trainer, jeder Geschäftsmann, jede Führungskraft, einfach jeder Mensch lesen.

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. Some of the other ground it covers includes whether or not the culture of an organization can and will be changed and will the leader be willing to take the necessary steps, procedures and time to do so and will the leader be able to effectively communicate the overall new vision of the company to its members. It is this chapter that reaffirmed my respect for Coach K and how he chooses to live his life and run his program. His trilogy on American leadership (The Founding Fathers on Leadership, Lincoln on Leadership, Martin Luther King, Jr.I don't read books very often, but this book had me interested the whole time, and kept me thinking about his way of coaching, and how effective it really is.

Throughout his career, Coach K's ethos centred around fostering an environment and culture that focussed on openness, hard work and cooperation to ensure excellence on and off the court. Even though there was always intense focus on the smallest details (the next game, the next quarter, the next play, the next 2 seconds. In other words, we make certain that they realize right off the bat that they have responsibilities to the team as well as to themselves alone. Of possible interest, a book on strategy that surveys Coach K as well as 86 other master strategists and a book on the importance of character to see one’s strategy succeed: Strategic Advantage: How to Win in War, Business, and Life and George Washington's Liberty Key: Mount Vernon's Bastille Key - the Mystery and Magic of Its Body, Mind, and Soul, a best-seller at George Washington’s Mount Vernon. I think that this book is an exposition, and that this writing style fits the book well because throughout the book he is explaining and giving examples.But the exhilaration I feel being with the team causes me to be even more excited toward the end of the meeting. Much of the head coaching years covered in this book are about instilling values (Integrity, hard work, honesty) in the students who come to play for him and Duke. If you like Duke or Coach K and you are looking for leadership book to read, then I recommend this book. His decision to attend Westpoint Military Academy and how he began playing and coaching while there. But after hearing that they had overslept, I began to wonder why other members of our team had not checked up on them.