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Five CDs, 5 hours 15 minutes
In LEAD TO SUCCEED, the follow-up to his New York Times bestseller, Success is a Choice, Rick Pitino takes the next step. He shows how we can become great leaders who can teach, inspire, get results, cultivate loyalty, and form a lasting relationship with those we lead-from our employees to our families and social colleagues.
Pitino's new audiobook on leadership will include specific recommendations for improving leadership qualities, addressing topics such as the importance of discipline, responsibility and patience, being results-oriented, and having loyalty to one's employees. As he did in Success is a Choice, Pitino will use anecdotes and examples drawn from his own experiences as a basketball coach and motivational speaker-as well as the lessons offered by history's great leaders-and the audiobook is read in Pitino's characteristically plain-spoken and inspirational voice.
Synopsis
Pitino draws on his experience as a basketball coach and motivational speaker to share with listeners the ten traits of a great leader in business and life. He stresses the importance of discipline, responsibility, patience, and loyalty to employees. Abridged. 5 CDs.
Synopsis
As Rick Pitino says, great leaders aren't born great; they learn great leadership along the path of life. Now in Lead to Succeed, Rick Pitino shares the ten traits of great leadership he discovered and has cultivated in himself, and shows listeners how they, too, can become leaders in their business and personal lives.
As Pitino shows in Lead to Succeed, leadership is about communication, consistency, and selflessness. In addition to illustrating how these traits apply in a variety of business situations, Pitino addresses these issues:
-- How you can be an effective business leader and still be honest
-- When it's best not to delegate
-- How the past can hurt you
-- How to get your team out of a slump
While Pitino has had great success with his players, he has also convinced thousands of people in companies across America that his leadership message applies in the workplace as well. Lead to Succeed is for anyone who wants to inspire and motivate others -- be it your employees, colleagues, members of an organization you belong to, or your family. A perfect book for executives, managers, and sports fans, Lead to Succeed can make great leadership within reach.
About the Author
Rick Pitino is currently head coach of the Boston Celtics. Until 1997, he was head coach of the University of Kentucky Wildcats, the 1996 NCAA champions. He has coached the basketball team at Providence College, taking them from near the bottom of the Big East to the Final Four in only two seasons, and the New York Knicks, whom he led to the playoffs after one season and restored to fighting form after a long losing streak. PITINO is the author of three books;
Born to Coach, Full Court Pressure, and
Success is a Choice, a
New York Times bestseller. He lives near Boston with his wife and their four sons and a daughter.
Bill Reynolds works as a sports columnist at Providence Journal in Rhode Island. He has written five books: Big Hoops, Lost Summer, Fall River Dreams, Born to Coach, and Success is a Choice (the last two with Rick Pitino).