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Effective teamwork begins and ends with communication

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Mike Krzyzewski
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: February 13
Basketball Coach
Basketball Player
Chicago
Illinois
Michael William Krzyzewski
Coach K
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Volleyball
Teamwork
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Always get back to your core principles.
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When you cleanse yourself of a big victory, you may open yourself up to the opportunity for an even bigger victory
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Whatever a leader does now sets up what he does later. And there's always a later.
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Sometimes it's not bad to hurt. Sometimes you don't want things until you get hurt. We got hurt today, let's see what we do.
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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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A leader may be the most knowledgeable person in the world, but if the players on his team cannot translate that knowledge into action, it means nothing.
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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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I think leadership is never singular. In a good organization, it's plural.
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I always won in my imagination. I always hit the game-winning shot, or I hit the free throw. Or if I missed, there was a lane violation, and I was given another one.
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Embrace the hell out of personal responsibility.
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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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When you are passionate, you always have your destination in sight and you are not distracted by obstacles. Because you love what you are pursuing, things like rejection and setbacks will not hinder you in your pursuit. You believe that nothing can stop you!
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Almost everything in leadership comes back to relationships.
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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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During critical periods, a leader is not allowed to feel sorry for himself, to be down, to be angry, or to be weak. Leaders must beat back these emotions
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