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Title: How Good Do You Want to Be?: A Champion's Tips on How to Lead and Succeed at Work and in Life
ISBN: 0345500849
Author:
Nick Saban
Brian Curtis
Publicate Date: 2007-01-23
Publish: 2007-01-23
List Price: $15.00
Average Customer Rating: 3.0
Format: Paperback
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1: This guy is a Liar
Seriously, this guy has his own book? Screw Nick Saban, and go Trojans!
Seriously, football aside (I get enough of those idiot SEC fans yakking about how USC is overrated), Nick Saban is a traitor idiot. You know, I could yakk all day about how the BCS is screwed and how bowl games are nothing but a money making scheme, but listening to this guy is probably the worse of them all. How anybody could take this trash idiot seriously is a joke. That guy can't make a single __________ promise.
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2: Excellent Leadership Book
This is in my top five best books on leadership, including how to best inspire others. The principles Saban discusses apply not only to coaching, but to life. I recommend reading this book. He continually teaches "Get out of yourself and into the team."
The only down side is it's not updated with him coaching at Alabama; but I suspect that will change one day soon.
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3: This man has no soul
Nick Saban published this book as coach at LSU. Maybe previously, as coach of Michigan St. Or when he roamed the halls of Toledo. I don't think he was the coach at Miami long enough to get the printing presses fired up for another edition.
I don't really care to read the drivel inside of this text, because this man is a blatant hypocrite. Please go read a book written by a man with integrity, rather than a book written by a man without conscience.
How good do you want to be? I'd like to be good enough not to berate my children when they beat me at Go-Fish. How good do I want to be? I want to be good enough to understand when I'm wrong and admit as much. How good do I want to be? Well I'd like to be good enough to be a man of my word, rather than of my wallet.
If you support Nick Saban, you support all that is wrong with college football. It's not about the money. It's not about the changing of allegiances between SEC schools. It's about the content of character, which Saban lacks, but demands of all around him. How good do I want to be? I'd like to be a more complete person than you, Mr. Saban.
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4: This is the plan that works
Amazing that Nick Saban is such a great leader and will improve Alabama's misfortune. Nick will make Alabama the best again!
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5: Decent ideas - Not bad for a first effort
This is a good read for students of leadership, with plenty of good ideas that readers can adopt. While most of the components of his philosophy are fundamental (hard work, integrity, communication skills, balance, etc.), there are actually some original ideas that run counter to those pitched in typical success/leadership books. This is where I believe the value lies. Examples include focusing on the process - not the goals, setting a start time but not an end time, and playing to dominate (no matter what the score).
Like him or not, Saban has a unique system that works (assuming he stays around long enough to implement it). This book is worth a read...
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