Getting to Us: How Great Coaches Make Great Teams

Getting to Us: How Great Coaches Make Great Teams

What makes a coach great? How do great coaches turn a collection of individuals into a coherent â€œusâ€?Â
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Seth Davis, one of the keenest minds in sports journalism, has been thinking about that question for twenty-five years. Itâ€™s one of the things that drove him to write the definitive biography of college basketballâ€™s greatest coach, John Wooden,Â Wooden: A Coachâ€™s Life. But John Wooden coached a long time ago. The world has changed, and coaching has too, tremendously. Seth Davis decided to embark on a proper investigation to get to the root of the matter.Â

InÂ Getting to Us, Davis probes and prods the best of the best from the landscape of active coaches of football and basketball, college and proâ€”from Urban Meyer, Dabo Swinney, and Jim Harbaugh to Mike Krzyzewski, Tom Izzo, Jim Boeheim, Brad Stevens, Geno Auriemma, and Doc Riversâ€”to get at the fundamental ingredients of greatness in the coaching sphere. Thereâ€™s no single right way, of courseâ€”part of the great value of this book is Davisâ€™s distillation of what he has learned about different types of greatness in coaching, and what sort of leadership thrives in one kind of environment but not in others. Some coaches have thrived at the college level but not in the pros. Why? Whatâ€™s the difference? Some coaches are stern taskmasters, others are warm and cuddly; some are brilliant strategists but less emotionally involved with their players, and with others itâ€™s vice versa. InÂ Getting to Us, we come to feel a deep connection with the most successful and iconic coaches in all of sportsâ€”big winners and big characters, whose stories offer much of enduring interest and value.
Country USA
Brand Penguin Press
Manufacturer Penguin Press
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2018-03-06
EANs 9780735222724

Country	USA
Brand	Penguin Press
Manufacturer	Penguin Press
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2018-03-06
EANs	9780735222724

Getting to Us: How Great Coaches Make Great Teams

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