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If you have talent with teamwork, you've got a chance to be a championship team.

Mike Krzyzewski

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Mike Krzyzewski
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: February 13
Basketball Coach
Basketball Player
Chicago
Illinois
Michael William Krzyzewski
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I'm still not a great reader, but my wife is and my daughters are, and I envy them. I think I got into a bad habit of trying to do something all the time, instead of trying to sit down and take my time a little bit.
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Leaders show respect for people by giving them time.
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It's funny what happens when you become a grandparent. You start to act all goofy and do things you never thought you'd do. It's terrific.
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Confidence shared is better than confidence only in yourself.
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Even though we want huge individual egos, our collective ego is unbelievable.
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Leaders have to give time for relationships. But more demands will be placed on their time as they become more successful. So if a person's success is based on developing relationships, then they have to continually find new ways of getting it done
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You can't defer if you're the person who's in the leadership position.
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A team is a fist-not five fingers.
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The team that trusts-their leader and each other-is more likely to be successful.
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There are five fundamental qualities that make every team great: communication, trust, collective responsibility, caring and pride. I like to think of each as a separate finger on the fist. Any one individually is important. But all of them together are unbeatable
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In order to be a winner, you have to look for ways of getting things done and not for reasons why things can’t be done. People who live with excuses have things that can’t be done hovering around them all the time.
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As a leader you can get sidetracked but you have to complete your mission
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Almost everything in leadership comes back to relationships.
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You should do things because of what your expectations are of yourself.
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Embrace the hell out of personal responsibility.
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A leader has to be positive about all things that happen to his team. Look at nothing in the past as failure.
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The worst thing we can do is put the (other) team in a one-and-one.
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My hunger is not for success, it is for excellence. Because when you attain excellence, success just naturally follows.
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In putting together your standards, remember that it is essential to involve your entire team. Standards are not rules issued by the boss they are a collective identity. Remember, standards are the things that you do all the time and the things for which you hold one another accountable.
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In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure.
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