Product Description
The Duke University men’s basketball team has served as the gold standard in college athletics for well over two decades – and that’s all because of the extraordinary impact of Mike Krzyzewski, the highly-respected coach of the Duke squad.
Coach K’s reputation as a teacher of young men has transcended his extraordinary success as a coach. The Duke team is always ranked at the top of the college game, year in and year out, but what’s truly remarkable about… More >>
Beyond Basketball: Coach K’s Keywords for Success
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#1 by David M. Weirick on May 14, 2010 - 2:00 am
This is a great book and Coach K is great. Coach K was lucky enough to learn from the greatest Coach in the history of sport, Robert Montgomery Knight. Coach Knight was just 24 years old when he was the head coach at Army and recruited Coach K vigoursly. Once he got Coach K, Coach K was bound for greatness. Bob Knight taught Coach K the importance of a good education and what was really important. Coach K is a branch of the Coach Knight coaching tree and truly took everything that Coach Knight does right to heart!! I highly recomend this book to everyone. Fantastic!!!!!
Rating: 5 / 5
#2 by Richard Caldwell on May 14, 2010 - 2:51 am
COACH k HAS AMPLIFIED THROUGH LIFE EXAQMPLES THE REAL MEANING OF WORDS THAT ARE TOO OFTEN USED CARELESSLY. HE GIVES “COURAGE” AND “LOYALTY” AND ALL OF THE OTHERS HE ADDRESSES IN HIS COMPACT BOOK REJUVENATED MEANING! i GAVE COPIES TO BOTH OF MY GROWN CHILDREN WHO, THEMSELVES ARE IN THE BUSINESS WORLD AND THEY LOVED IT
Rating: 5 / 5
#3 by Terri L. Timme on May 14, 2010 - 5:14 am
This was actually purchased as a Christmas gift for my boss. He was definitely happy with receiving it!
Rating: 5 / 5
#4 by T. Lane on May 14, 2010 - 5:14 am
As a Duke Grad (Fuqua ‘90) and a huge Coach K fan, I waited with great anticipation to read another one of Coach K’s wonderful books. When his book was announced I pre-ordered it on Amazon and was visibly happy when it finally arrived.
I saved the reading the book for a week or two until I had a long airline flight. My flight to the West Coast finally arrived, I got upgraded to first class and all I had to do was enjoy a glass of wine and read the book. Everything was working according to plan. I opened the book, took a sip of wine and began reading at the foreword.
Boy, was I under whelmed. Sure it was a good book with nice anecdotes about some of the players and teams I knew and loved. Sure, there was the insider view of what goes on behind the curtain on both a professional and personal level. Sure, the title holds true and the lessons of Coach K go far behind basketball.
The problem was that it was BORING. There is no flow. I could not string together the chapters and get on a roil. The book takes one word at a time, defines its, has a narrative and expository delineation of the definition and then a nice story. This template repeats itself over and over and over. Scores big points for parallel structure but none for holding the reader’s attention. With no over arching theme, other than the title, it was as if I was reading a random set of stories rather than a series of tiles that combine to form a unified mosaic.
This book pales in comparison to Coach YK’s other books and to his in-person presentations. While it is not bad (and is definitely better than Dean Smith’s “Leading with the Nose”) it hardly lives up to the bar K has set with this other books or with any other domain of his life.
I hate to say it but the template structure Coach K has chosen relegates this book to the top of the pile of bathroom reading but towards the bottom for good reading or inspirational work.
Rating: 3 / 5
#5 by Karon Perron on May 14, 2010 - 5:51 am
This is not only a book for Duke fans or college bball hopefuls. I bought this book after two of my friends/colleagues had used it in a presentation for one of our graduate courses. Being a language arts’ teacher, I am always on the lookout for words with which my seventh and eighth graders can (or should) connect, and Coach K’s list of important words really fit the bill. My “Vocab Rehab” is not just a study of prefixes, suffixes, and roots; it’s my students sharing how they have experienced or seen those words in action. It’s my contention that once they’ve practiced the words on paper and verbally, application to life situations and/or development of life goals will be easy next steps for them. Thank you, Coach K, for providing an inspiring book for everyone.
Rating: 5 / 5