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Learn how to be a leader in one of sports' greatest teachers, Rick Pitino.
As Rick Pitino says, great leaders aren't born great; they learn great leadership along the road of life. From the time Pitino first became a coach at twenty-four, he is a student of leadership in every its forms, studying how great leaders from legendary coaches to American presidents to world humanitarians are able to inspire and motivate others. He found out that leaders, on the court and off, running a business, politics, or civil rights, have certain qualities in keeping; these leaders share key traits that make people want to listen to them and follow them.
Now, in Lead to Succeed, Rick Pitino shares the ten traits of great leadership he found out and has cultivated in himself, and shows readers the way they, too, may become leaders in their business and personal lives. As the former coach of the Kentucky Wildcats who turned the team around from probation status to a 1996 NCAA championship, Pitino relates stories of this experience, and other leadership lessons from his career.
When Rick Pitino joined the Boston Celtics in 1997, he took on the largest challenge of his professional life, becoming not only head coach but also president of the Celtics. Furthermore to coaching professional athletes with multimillion-dollar contracts, he was assuming a leadership role of an organization saddled with salary cap problems, limited talent, misfortune in the draft lottery, and bombarded by adversity on all sides. Facing these adversities, Pitino has relied on the leadership strategy predicated on his many years of learning from leaders around him and from his own mistakes and successes.
Leading isn't about being truly a dictator; neither is it about people-pleasing. As Pitino shows in Lead to Succeed, leadership is approximately communication, consistency, and selflessness. Furthermore to illustrating how these traits apply in a number of business situations, Pitino addresses these issues:
How you can be a powerful business leader but still be honest
If it is best never to delegate
How the past can hurt you
How to get your team out of an slump
While Pitino has already established great success with his players, he in addition has convinced thousands of men and women in companies across America that his leadership message applies in the workplace as well. Lead to Succeed is for anybody who wants to inspire and motivate others--be it your employees or colleagues, or members of an organization you participate in, or your loved ones. A perfect book for executives, managers, and sports fans, Lead to Succeed can make great leadership at your fingertips.
