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Lead to Succeed: 10 Traits of Great Leadership in Business and Life
The master motivator shows how to cultivate the traits that all great leaders must possess?
As Rick Pitino says, great leaders aren't born great; they learn great leadership along the path of life. Pitino's insights on leadership and how it can be harnessed in positive and productive ways make him one of the most sought-after speakers in corporate America. In Lead to Succeed , Rick Pitino shares the ten traits of great leadership he discovered and has cultivated himself, and shows how you too can incorporate them into your own game plan. His program
* How to build a "team ego" to give people a stake in winning
* How to keep a group focused and free of distraction
* Lessons from Rick's own experiences coaching players and managing employees
Pitino reveals why dictating and people-pleasing are dead ends, and how communication, consistency, and selflessness are the most effective ways to motivate the people who follow you-at work and at home. A perfect book for executives, managers, and sports fans, Lead to Succeed can make great leadership within reach.
As Rick Pitino says, great leaders aren't born great; they learn great leadership along the path of life. Pitino's insights on leadership and how it can be harnessed in positive and productive ways make him one of the most sought-after speakers in corporate America. In Lead to Succeed , Rick Pitino shares the ten traits of great leadership he discovered and has cultivated himself, and shows how you too can incorporate them into your own game plan. His program
* How to build a "team ego" to give people a stake in winning
* How to keep a group focused and free of distraction
* Lessons from Rick's own experiences coaching players and managing employees
Pitino reveals why dictating and people-pleasing are dead ends, and how communication, consistency, and selflessness are the most effective ways to motivate the people who follow you-at work and at home. A perfect book for executives, managers, and sports fans, Lead to Succeed can make great leadership within reach.
216 pages, Paperback
First published May 16, 2000
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About the author
Rick Pitino
24 books12 followersRick Pitino is the head basketball coach at the University of Louisville. He won the NCAA Championship in 2013 with the Louisville Cardinals and the 1996 NCAA Championship with the Kentucky Wildcats--the only basketball coach to win national titles at two different universities. He entered the Basketball Hall of Fame on September 8, 2013. Pitino also was head coach at Providence College during its remarkable NCAA tournament in 1987, and in the NBA was head coach of the New York Knicks and Boston Celtics. He has written five previous business and leadership books, including the #1 New York Times bestseller Success is a Choice.
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January 14, 2017
In three words, describe this book.
This book sucked.
I like Pitino, I LOVED "Success Is A Choice," I'm from Kentucky and I love Basketball (although no longer a UK fan), so you would think this would have been a great book. Nope.
Couldn't get done with it fast enough. Keeping in mind who he is, a basketball coach, and who he coaches, young people (in his terms), this book was filled with page after page of reminders that he is a coach of basketball, and "so this one time, at basketball camp..." followed by "so there was th9is other time, at basketball camp..." not to mention the overwhelming hit-you-over-the-head-statements that young people are lazy, couch potatoes that do nothing but sit around playing video games, watching TV, zero direction in life, no attention span whatsoever, and on and on.
The book may be about leadership but this had quite the decidedly negative feel to it.
I know he had it rough in Boston, maybe that effected him?
Whatever the reason, this was a negative book. A plethora of analogies of his coaching career.
Don't get me wrong, by all means use experience but it just felt like the same damn thing over and over. And I will *never* forget, after this book, his resume of coaching career. Believe me, he sure as hell reminds you enough.
There were altogether *maybe* a page of positive statements and ideas that I took away from this.
My copy will certainly leave my library of motivational books and end up on Amazon or Paperback Swap.
This book sucked.
I like Pitino, I LOVED "Success Is A Choice," I'm from Kentucky and I love Basketball (although no longer a UK fan), so you would think this would have been a great book. Nope.
Couldn't get done with it fast enough. Keeping in mind who he is, a basketball coach, and who he coaches, young people (in his terms), this book was filled with page after page of reminders that he is a coach of basketball, and "so this one time, at basketball camp..." followed by "so there was th9is other time, at basketball camp..." not to mention the overwhelming hit-you-over-the-head-statements that young people are lazy, couch potatoes that do nothing but sit around playing video games, watching TV, zero direction in life, no attention span whatsoever, and on and on.
The book may be about leadership but this had quite the decidedly negative feel to it.
I know he had it rough in Boston, maybe that effected him?
Whatever the reason, this was a negative book. A plethora of analogies of his coaching career.
Don't get me wrong, by all means use experience but it just felt like the same damn thing over and over. And I will *never* forget, after this book, his resume of coaching career. Believe me, he sure as hell reminds you enough.
There were altogether *maybe* a page of positive statements and ideas that I took away from this.
My copy will certainly leave my library of motivational books and end up on Amazon or Paperback Swap.
December 5, 2021
Leadership principles from Rick Pitno
March 11, 2017
I liked that I could hear him saying all this out loud (his voice is one of a kind). Good stuff, coach!
February 23, 2008
I picked this up at the library because I was looking for something educational, and helpful on leadership. As I started reading it I realized, wait a minute this is by a sbasketball coach and all of his examples havae to do with his basketball teams, so I was worried at first. I am not really into sports at all. However, it was a great, quick read. Lots of good, practical leadership knowledge, you can immediately apply. A good reminder of what it takes to be a strong and effective leader.
July 28, 2007
I read it mainly because the author was a basketball coach I really liked.
November 4, 2008
Lead to Succeed is a leadership orientated book. It talks about what it takes to lead groups through catchy inferences to basketball.
July 9, 2009
Encouraging words from a very good leader, despite what happened with the Celtics and the wishy-washyness of whether he's staying or going at Louisville.
I read this when I was in retail management.
I read this when I was in retail management.
April 29, 2012
“Lying makes a problem part of the future; truth makes a problem part of the past.”
November 11, 2012
Inspiring thoughts about leadership, with lots of illustrative anecdotes from the author's life as a basketball coach.
July 28, 2011
Good book on leadership.
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