1. So far this book kind of confuses me. He mostly tells stories about his time at Duke University, but they don't really tie in to leadership. The book is more about ways to get things going or how to run a basketball team, than how to be a leader. One thing it does do a good job of show though, is ethics. Mike Krzyzewski doesn't want his players to just scrape by in college, he wants them all to graduate and wants them all to love basketball. He says that if a player comes and doesn't plan on graduating or does anything to affect his schoolwork, he should not come to Duke University. One part that stuck out to me was in the second chapter when he talks about twelve years old and forming a basketball team at school.
2. So far my views on leadership have not changed.
3. I haven't really been put into a leadership situation. I'm a shy person and am not usually the person to step up and take charge for anything.
4. "Leaders have to search for the heart on a team, because the person who has it can bring out the best in everyone else." Coach K. This makes me think that even though I am shy and not very confident, I should try to be a leader if I have a good heart because I can make the people around me do good things also.
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"people set rules to keep from making decisions"
ReplyDeleteI had never thought about things that way but it completely makes sense. And when there are no rules to protect you from making decisions people panic and often make the wrong choice because of lack of experiance.
thats cool that he cares more about how his players are doing in school, hes sort of guiding them in several different ways.
ReplyDeletethis reminds me a big difference between U.S. and Italy. We don't have sports at school so our teachers pretend us to leave sport if we have problems of study, and our coaches pretend us to practice hard. So they are 2 completely different worlds. School is always more important so if you have troubles you have to leave sport because your coaches wouldn't let you play if you jumped practices. This is different here, and what Mike Krzyzewski does is closer to Italian's way of thinking.
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