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A leader is someone who puts their people in position to be successful all the time
Mike Krzyzewski
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Mike Krzyzewski
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: February 13
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Michael William Krzyzewski
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Imagination has a great deal to do with winning.
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I have a rule on my team: When we talk to one another, we look each other right in the eye, because I think it's tough to lie to somebody. You give respect to somebody.
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In developing teams, I don't believe in rules. I believe in standards. Rules don't promote teamwork, standards do
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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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Don't let a single game break your heart.
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I have a plan of action, but the game is a game of adjustments.
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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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I don't look at myself as a basketball coach. I look at myself as a leader who happens to coach basketball.
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Almost everything in leadership comes back to relationships.
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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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Once you win a National Championship, how do you do that again? How do you get the passion to do that again? We won it again right away, the next year. A lot of it had to do with the fact that I didn't give myself an opportunity to enjoy the first one.
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The thing I loved the most - and still love the most about teaching - is that you can connect with an individual or a group, and see that individual or group exceed their limits.
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Good sound habits are more important than rules - use concepts.
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Two are better than one if two act as one.
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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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It takes courage not only to make decisions, but to live with those decisions afterward
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Effective teamwork begins and ends with communication
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