Coach K's Tips

After their national championship season last year - - Duke is back again as the #1 ranked college basketball team. Mike Krzyzenwski, the legendary Coach K of the Duke program, writes about leadership in Leading With The Heart (2000) - - his guide to successful strategies for basketball, business, and life. Coach K has the following tips:

• It's important for a leader to focus on the technical details of his industry or business. But it's vital to focus on details related specifically to people in the organization.
• People talk to you in different ways - - through facial expressions. moods, mannerisms, body language, the tone in their voice, the look in their eyes.
• As a leader, you must be able to read your players.
• A leader has to be positive about all things that happen to his team. Look at nothing in the past as failure.
• You cannot win every game. But you can learn from every game.
• It takes courage not only to make decisions, but to live with those decisions afterward.
• A leader has to have the courage to make a key decision in a split second.
• Courage and confidence are what decision-making is all about.
• Don't let a single game break your heart.

Check out ESPN's Greatest Coach On The Planet debate - - http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=5846363