Leading With The Heart By Coach Krzyzewski

Leading with the Heart In reading this book, I have more appreciation for how sports has affected my life in a positive way. Like Coach Krzyzewski, I believe that my participation in college sports has impacted my life more than anything else I have encountered. Not only did I learn more about myself and the kind of person I am, but I also learned about others and how to work well with them. There’s just no other way to learn everything that sports have taught me. In reading this book, I also continued expanding my ongoing knowledge on leadership and what it truly was. In fact, there were four major concepts that this book helped me to better understand leadership.
I. Leadership vs. Management As mentioned previously in this class, leadership …show more content…
Without power, there isn’t anyone to follow. And without influence, followers won’t have any motivation to act on certain situations. I view Coach K as having a more personal power source rather than a positional power source. Yes, he’s the head coach so the players have to follow him, but without that personal aspect, people won’t want to follow you. Krzyzewski uses his expertise of basketball to aid him in influencing his players. While he’s giving him his knowledge, he is letting them know that he knows what he’s talking about and they should trust that he’s going to guide them to success. This also motivates them, making them want to succeed for not only themselves, but the entire team as well. Even with his current knowledge and expertise, Coach K mentioned that he loves to learn new things from his players. Maybe there’s a drill they heard of and they’d like to give it a shot. Or maybe there’s a new move they’d like to show him because they think it could make them better. This shows that he respects their ideas and encourages them to continue to search for new …show more content…
The goal that transformational leaders want to attain is creating new leaders from their followers. Coach Krzyzewski, I believe, is an excellent example of a transformational leader. Very early in his book, he mentions the fact that most of the people on his coaching staff are Duke basketball alumni. His reasoning behind this makes absolute sense to me. He says he likes having former players back as coaches because they know the ropes. They know how he coaches, what he expects of his players, and because he coached and taught them the game, they shared much of his knowledge. He also enjoys when they tell stories of their days as Blue Devils, good and bad. Coach K is also a man who forms close, trusting bonds with each and every member of the team, so he trusts them and the way they do