The Carolina Way
By: Dean Smith, Gerald D. Bell, John Kilgo
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.
Dean Smith is the winner coach in the history of not only college Basketball but of any sport. Smith is the author of the bestselling A Coach's Life; he lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

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The Book: The Carolina Way
Authors: Dean Smith, Gerald D. Bell, John Kilgo
Format: Paperback, 352pp
Pub. Date: January 2005
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
From the: eBA Basketball Books Catalogue

Leading with the Heart
By Mike Krzyzewski - Coach K
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 Quinn 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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The Book: Leading with the Heart
Authors: Mike Krzyzewski - Coach K
Format: Paperback, 336 pages - 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.9 inches - 13.0 ounces
Pub. Date: March 1, 2001
Language: English Publisher: Warner Business Books
From the: eBA Basketball Books Catalogue