The Carolina Way: Leadership Lessons from a Life in Coaching Hardcover - 2004
by Dean Edwards Smith; Gerald D. Bell; John Kilgo (With)
The most successful coach in college basketball history, and among the most beloved, offers his comprehensive program for building and maintaining winning teams in sports, business, and life.
For almost forty years, Dean Smith coached the University of North Carolina basketball team with unsurpassed success, both in victories won and in shaping the lives of the players he led. Well known are the Michael Jordans, Kenny Smiths, and George Karls, but overall more than 96 percent of Dean Smith's players earned their undergraduate degrees, and more than 33 percent earned graduate or professional degrees. Now, in The Carolina Way, Coach Smith fully explains his entire coaching philosophy and shows readers how to apply it to the leadership and team-building challenges 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 major point is a "Player Perspective" from a former North Carolina basketball star and an in-depth "Business Perspective" developing some of the wider applications of Smith's precepts from Gerald D. Bell, a world-renowned leadership consultant and a professor at UNC's Kenan-Flagler Business School.
Each year Coach Smith gave his team the same three goals:
È PLAY HARD: Insist on consistent effort. The final result is often outside your control. Create a system that demands effort, rewards it, and punishes its absence.
È PLAY SMART: Execute properly. Understand and consistently execute the fundamentals. Reward their execution and punish their absence.
È PLAY TOGETHER: Play unselfishly. Don't focus on individual statistics. Recruit unselfish players, reward unselfish play, and punish selfish play and showboating.
Coach Smith taught all his teams that if they kept their focus on these three goals, winning would take care of itself. And more times than any other coach in history, he was right.
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I've been lucky enough to have been around great coaches all my life.
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- Title The Carolina Way: Leadership Lessons from a Life in Coaching
- Author Dean Edwards Smith; Gerald D. Bell; John Kilgo (With)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 337
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, New York
- Date January 29, 2004
- ISBN 9781594200052 / 159420005X
- Weight 1.42 lbs (0.64 kg)
- Dimensions 9.14 x 6.3 x 1.28 in (23.22 x 16.00 x 3.25 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003053664
- Dewey Decimal Code 796.323
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