Leading with the Heart: Coach K's Successful Strategies for Basketball, Business, and Life
by Mike Krzyzewski, Donald T. Phillips
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Author: Donald T. Phillips, Mike KrzyzewskiEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2001-03-01
ISBN: 0446676780
Number of pages: 291
Publisher: Warner Business Books
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Summary: 5 Stars
Duke Basketball is a phenomenon among college sports. Under coach Mike Krzyzewski, Duke has three National Championships, six National Players of the Year, and nine Final Four appearances.Krzyzewski has been named an 11-time national coach of the year and boasts an overall 637-227 record. The success of Krzyzewski and the Blue Devils is almost unparallel.
So what makes a team like Duke dominate? Coach K suggests in Leading With the Heart that success, whether on the court or off, comes through basic principles. He goes on, stating how the way he runs his basketball team, could be adapted to an office setting, committees, and for life in general.
Former Duke player who defined success, Grant Hill, appropriately wrote the foreward. Hill explained his admiration for Krzyzewski, accrediting much of his life success to the bond they shared. Hill said he chose Duke when he heard one of Krzyzewski's then-graduating seniors speak of the values his coach had taught him. These included: "commitment, toughness, honesty, integrity, collective responsibility, pride, love, and friendship."
Leading With the Heart suggests that many of these qualities are essential to being successful. Coach K states that "communication, trust, collective responsibility, caring, and pride" are five values that "make every team great." These represent what Coach K calls the "fist"-where the fingers also represent the members of the team. The characteristics and members form the team's identity and "any one fist can break any one finger" so all of the fingers or team players must work together.
The fist can also be adapted to a business situation. Every group, whether athletic or professional have goals and must work together to achieve these goals. Krzyzewski uses the fist to teach his winning principles, which add up to teamwork.
Although hard work is critical to be successful, Coach K also attributes most of his success to friendship, where he states, "friendships, along with love, make life worth living." Throughout the entire book, Coach K suggests many times how important being a good person with likable qualities is in society. For one thing, Duke Basketball players are friends on and off the court. Coach K believes this is important for the overall health of the team. But most importantly, players come back to Duke because of the relationship they have established with their coach. Coach K keeps relationships with his players long after they graduate. Numerous players come back to coach and to take in a few games from Coach K court, if they are not playing in the professional leagues themselves.
Success is not just the product you make, but what lingers around afterwards. Krzyzewski has life-lasting relationships with his players, which in many situations would outweigh the success on the basketball court.
If applied properly with the right attitude, the ideals in Leading With the Heart can be used in almost any situation. Although a college basketball fan can appreciate the book more, it has valuable assets for anyone involved in any type of organization.
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Summary of Leading with the Heart: Coach K's Successful Strategies for Basketball, Business, and Life
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. 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. From the importance of trust, communication, and pride, to the commitment a leader must make to his team, this inspiring book is a must-read for anyone who loves college basketball-or who simply wants to win in any competitive environment today.In some respects, a top-level college coach is a lot like a manager in any business. He has to turn a group of talented individuals into a smoothly running team, and he has to produce results that please the fans of his team--the shareholders of the athletic program. Thus, in Leading with the Heart, Krzyzewski reviews the lessons he's learned as basketball coach at Duke University, and tries to universalize them so they translate to any leadership position. For example, he writes, "Adjustments are not unusual, they are usual. So a leader's ability to think on his feet ... to do things without instruction ... is of paramount importance." Makes sense, as does this admonition: "When teaching, always remember this simple phrase: 'You hear, you forget. You see, you remember. You do, you understand.'"
The book has four sections--"Preseason," "Regular Season," "Postseason," and "All-Season"--and each of those has four chapters. Each chapter begins with three quotes ("Too many rules get in the way of leadership" leads off chapter 1), and ends with bulleted tips summing up the chapter's message. Between the quotes and the bullet points are anecdotes about Duke basketball games and (occasionally) Krzyzewski's life outside basketball. What you come away with is an understanding of why Krzyzewski is a great basketball coach, why former Duke assistants such as Tommy Amaker and Quin Snyder are probably going to become great basketball coaches, and how anyone who's currently a coach can become a better coach. It would be great if other types of managers in other types of businesses could incorporate these lessons in compassionate, focused, highly flexible leadership, but it seems unlikely. Most managers in business rise through the ranks not because of their ability to lead or inspire but because of their knowledge and competence (if not their connections). On the other hand, it would be nice if each of us, just once, could work for someone like Coach K, someone who could push the right buttons and lead us to our own version of the Final Four. Not likely, but a pretty sweet fantasy. --Lou Schuler
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