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Leadership is simple: Add value to people everyday.
Mike Krzyzewski
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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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Krzyzewski
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Each group and each youngster is different. As a leader or coach, you get to know what they need.
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I have a plan of action, but the game is a game of adjustments.
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The person who has inspired me my whole life is my Mom, because she taught me commitment. She sacrificed.
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Even though we want huge individual egos, our collective ego is unbelievable.
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The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions.
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I'm looking for players who make their teammates better. You do that with enthusiasm and passion.
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For a college basketball player or coach, to reach the Final Four is la-la land. You’ve achieved, you’ve got your stamp of approval. My first team to do that was in 1986. Then we did it in ’88, ’89 and ’90.
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A team is a fist-not five fingers.
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When I had troubles, I'd go out - with basketball, you can do it by yourself, too. So you'd go out and shoot, and you'd fantasize.
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Confrontation simply means meeting the truth head-on.
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Confidence shared is better than confidence only in yourself.
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The other thing I knew I had was a high level of competitiveness.
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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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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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It’s simply doing what you’re supposed to do as well as you can when you’re supposed to do it.
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With me and basketball, it became part of me.
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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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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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First of all, what happens is, when you're good at something, you spend a lot of time with it. People identify you with that sport, so it becomes part of your identity.
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Effective teamwork begins and ends with communication
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