Category: Leadership Skills

March Madness or How You Play the Game?

If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot. - Dean Smith

This weekend, we move from the Sweet Sixteen to the Final Four of the NCAA’s annual basketball tournament, dubbed “March Madness.”  In the early 1980s, Brent Musburger popularized that term during annual broadcasts of the NCAA tournament.

Dean Smith—called a “coaching legend” by the Basketball Hall of Fame—coached for 36 years at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and retired with 879 victories, the NCAA Division I men’s basketball record at that time.  During his tenure as head coach, North Carolina won two national championships and appeared in 11 Final Fours.

Former player and member of the 1969 NCAA Final Four basketball team David Chadwick—currently pastor of Forest Hills Church—outlines twelve leadership principles he gleaned from Coach Dean Smith in It’s How You Play the Game.

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Leadership Gold from John C. Maxwell

Everything rises and falls on leadership. - John C. Maxwell
In 2008, John Maxwell wrote about lessons he learned from 40 years of leading.  He mined “Leadership Gold”, so we don’t have to!  Each of the book’s 26 chapters is designed to provide a nugget of leadership on a six-month mentoring journey with the world’s foremost expert on leadership.

See what you can learn from his unique blend of advice, professional wisdom and personal recollection in Leadership Gold: Lessons I’ve Learned from a Lifetime of Leading.

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