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

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Grant Hill once perceptively remarked that every team he played on during his four years at Duke, I coached differently. All the messages and lessons from this book are valuable not only for me but for my clients as well.

So I talked to the entire team about setting up a buddy system where everyone looked out for one another. Time Management At the first meeting, we pass out notebooks and pocket calendars containing a variety of logistical items.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. 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. It's important to begin using plural pronouns right away: "Our" instead of "my," "we" instead of "I," "us" instead of "me. This book also taught me that school always comes first, education is key, you won't get anywhere in life without education.

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. Mike is a big believer in team building because he says he encourages them to spend time at his house. Although he occasionally refers to a coach as a "leader," for the most part he leaves it up to readers to connect the dots between his coaching strategies and useful business strategies.When Coach K got those goose bumps, you knew he was not giving you some 'rah-rah' speech," said Bilas. He's led the Duke Blue Devils to five straight Final Four appearances, culminating in back-to-back championships in 1991 and '92. For instance, I may ask them to concentrate on individual physical conditioning over the coming six weeks so that they are in really good shape by mid-October's first day of practice. For those of us who liked Duke, Coach K was always one of the good guys and it was nice to spend a bunch of hours listening to his earnest, thoughtful philosophies on life, leadership, relationships and coaching.