The Carolina Way: Leadership Lessons from a Life in Coaching
The Carolina Way: Leadership Lessons from a Life in Coaching
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The Carolina Way: Leadership Lessons from a Life in Coaching
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For forty years, Dean Smith coached the University of North Carolina basketball team with unsurpassed success. Now, in The Carolina Way, he explains his coaching philosophy and shows readers how to apply it to the leadership and team-building challenges they face in their own lives. In his wry, sensible, wise way, Coach Smith takes us through every aspect of his program, illustrating his insights with vivid stories. Accompanying each of Coach Smith’s major points is a “Player Perspective” from a former North Carolina basketball star and an in-depth “Business Perspective” from Gerald D. Bell, a world-renowned leadership consultant and a professor at UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School. The keystones of Coach Smith’s coaching philosophy are widely applicable and centrally relevant to building successful teams of any kind.
The Carolina Way: Leadership Lessons from a Life in Coaching
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Comments
I have to give Dean Smith credit — he’s one hell of a salesman. The fact that so many people have bought into his hokum despite a truly dismal track record of on-court performance is impressive. As my old high school coach said, “My grandma could have coached Carolina to 5 National Championships by now.” Somehow, Dean has managed to prevent some of the most talented teams in history from even making it the Final 4. Also, while Dean may pontificate about “loyalty” and “honor”, here is a coach that would run off a bench scholarship player to free up a scholarship for the next season.
Look, I’m a big college hoops fan and some of the antecdotes about the game were cool, but the reality is that Dean Smith is, at best, a decent college coach who doesn’t know anything more about leadership than the McDonald’s night manager.
Rating: 2 / 5
Dean Smith’s book The Tarheel Way was a great read. This book is for kids 12 and up. Unlike many sports books it relates sports to the real world. Dean Smith and his co-writers do a great job of that.
Dean Smith’s book talks about the way he ran his basketball team. Dean Smith was all about life lessons and how basketball related to the real world. He does a great job of explaining the recruiting process in his book. He also talks about players leaving early for the NBA and he is ok with that because it gives them financial security for life. He also emphasizes how basketball gives students life lessons that they can carry on in life, or in there work place. Dean Smith had a great understanding of the game of basketball and in life in general. In his book, it is forwarded by people like Roy Williams who have nothing but great respect for him as a coach, and is a person. If you are interested in how a college basketball team is run, Dean Smith’s The Tarheel Way is a must read for you.
Rating: 5 / 5
A great book full of good examples from the basketball court on how to solve daily real world problems in your own life and business. The discipline and routine that coach Smith gave to his players are not magic tricks. They show you how hard work always pays out and how it gives us self esteem to overcome life’s obstacles. The path that Dean Smith presents is not an easy one. Discipline, patience, intelligence and teamwork are the key ingredients of Smith’s success formula. Not only that, he also tells us about his tricks he applied to overcome the difficulties that every individual player faced. There is a lot of creativity in his work. It’s not only his hard work, but also his creativity that makes his approach enjoyable.
Really a book with greats tips to follow. Anyone who applies his approach in basketball to his life can expect tremendous results in his life.
Rating: 5 / 5
I enjoyed how he would explain a concept then relate it to the business world, and finally give an example of how the concept helped on the court.
Rating: 5 / 5
I have enjoyed this book and have given it to friends and family on several occasions. This is not a book about basketball, but uses the sport to illustrate leadership priniples. Each chapter discusses a leadership concept and is broken into three parts- Coach Smith’s insight, a player discussing how the concept affected him, and a business angle. This is easily in the top five books written about leadership!
Rating: 5 / 5
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