Coaching Your Kids to Be Leaders: The Keys to Unlocking Their Potential

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Chapter 1: Urgently Needed: Young Leaders
Parents, coaches, mentors, and teachers all want the best for the young people in their care. And in this compelling book, longtime NBA executive and leadership guru Pat Williams says the best we can do for young people is to train them to be leaders.

The Seven Keys to Unlocking Leadership Potential
Looking back, I see that this one event opened the door for every other leadership role I've held during these past forty-odd years. Everything I've done as a leader, as a promoter, as a general manager, as a sports executive

Why We Need Leaders
We live in an increasingly dangerous world-a world that often seems to be drifting toward a dark and uncertain future. Our civilization seems hemmed in on every side by the threat of economic catastrophe, ecological destruction, racial and ethnic clashes

Parents, coaches, mentors, and teachers all want the best for the young people in their care. And in this compelling book, longtime NBA executive and leadership guru Pat Williams says the best we can do for young people is to train them to be leaders. This way, the future leaders of our communities, our teams, our businesses-and even our nation-will build confidence, character, competence, and other essential traits they'll use for a lifetime.

Williams draws on more than 800 interviews and written responses to distill the wisdom of today's leaders in this practical down-to-earth guide for giving our children the best possible start in life. Men and women from many fields contribute their insights, including Red Auerbach, Jeb Bush, Chuck Colson, Dick Vermeil, Donna Shalala, Joe Torre, George McGovern, John Maxwell, Jerry West, and many, many others, as well as Williams himself. Legendary “Coach” John Wooden provides an insightful foreword. Pat Williams brilliantly organizes several lifetimes of accumulated experience into readily understandable and usable principles.

PAT WILLIAMS is the senior vice president of the Orlando Magic, a renowned speaker, and the author of How to Be like Mike, The Magic of Teamwork, and Go for the Magic..

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