Order from a Major Online Bookstore
Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine
Save Your Time And Money
| AnyBook4Less.com | Order from a Major Online Bookstore |
|
| Home | Store List | FAQ | Contact Us | | ||
| Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine Save Your Time And Money |
||
 |
Title: Leading with the Heart : Coach K's Successful Strategies for Basketball, Business, and Life by Mike Krzyzewski, Donald T. Phillips ISBN: 0-446-67678-0 Publisher: Warner Business Pub. Date: 01 March, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.16 (44 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent book in all regards
Comment: I graduated from Duke in 68 and am an avowed fan of Coach K.However, I've hit a rut in my reading recently, can't find anything that seems stimulatiing or interesting.I was afraid this book would just be another of those "smaltzy" rah rah type of books that coaches(and usually someone else write), but I was happily surprised. It is really worth everyones attention, whether to motivate a business person or anyone on how to live ones life. The usual blah blahing about excellence is pretty much left out, thank goodness, and the book is full of very helpful aphorisms about what priorities to put first and how to lead a wholesome and successful life,even if you don't have a jump shot.Coach K comes across as really honest and sincere.I can't stand phonies and really was pleasantly surprised by the book. Lots of real life anecdotes about games, players, situations and how to take defeat.Truly inspirational from a superb leader. For sports fans, look what he did with the team of mostly freshman this year, way beyond anyones expectations.He uses his heart a lot, but also his head.You can also read and skip around in the book, its not like a novel.Again, his repeated emphasis on how to deal with defeat and failure shows true wisdom, far beyond that of most college coaches. I remember the tonge in cheek defintion of a college basketball coach by a player once."you have to be a little bit crazy to base your career on someone else's jump shot." Coach K is crazy like a fox.
Rating: 5
Summary: Simply phenomenal
Comment: One of the few "good guys" in college basketball, Coach K always seems to have two things in common that are usually mutually exclusive in college sports - a superlative record of winning & more importantly, a superlative family atmosphere. Too many times in both college and in business we hear of two types of coaches and managers - the overly soft players coach or the motivate by fear authoritarian type. Seldom have we seen a coach succeed at such a high level who, through a tireless work ethic, has engendered such indelible values as trust, personal responsibility, honesty, teamwork, the ability to laugh at one's mistakes, selflessness, & a genuine love for those on your team as if they were your family.
This is, as opposed to a memoir, a leadership book - one that everyone who has followed Duke would enjoy and learn from. Coach K reveals his secrets to motivating players, his core values, how to deal with adversity, how to maintain a level of excellence, & what it takes to get to the top - in sports, business, and in life. Coach K chronicles humorous and educational anecdotal stories with his players such as Chris Collins, Christian Laettner, Bobby Hurley, Grant Hill, Elton Brand, Jeff Capel, Danny Ferry, Trajan Langdon, Wojo, Johnny Dawkins, & Shane Battier to name a few that helped mold them into not only great players on the court, but more importantly, great leaders off of the court. The audio version is especially poignant and well read.
Rating: 3
Summary: More about basketball and coaching than leadership
Comment: As one who is interested in leadership development, I was disapointed in this book. For those of you who are coaches of athletic teams this book will be usefull. For those who are looking at leadership for business, government etc, there are likely better books out there that cover the subject minus the glory of the Duke basketball team.
 |
Title: Five-Point Play: The Story of Duke's Amazing 2000-2001 Championship Season by Mike Krzyzewski, Donald T. Phillips ISBN: 0446530603 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 19 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
 |
Title: Wooden by John Wooden ISBN: 0809230410 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
 |
Title: Beyond Success: The 15 Secrets to Effective Leadership and Life Based on Legendary Coach John Wooden's Pyramid of Success by Brian D. Biro, John R. Wooden ISBN: 0399526900 Publisher: Perigee Pub. Date: 09 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
 |
Title: Success Is a Choice : Ten Steps to Overachieving in Business and Life by Rick Pitino ISBN: 0767901320 Publisher: Broadway Books Pub. Date: 02 March, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
 |
Title: They Call Me Coach by John Wooden ISBN: 0071424911 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: 26 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Thank you for visiting www.AnyBook4Less.com and enjoy your savings!
Copyright� 2001-2021 Send your comments
