The Winner Within: A Life Plan for Team Players

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Summary: Well Written
Review: A very good book with good ideas that can be used in the business world as well as with accomplishing personal issues. Pat's examples have been an inspiration to many others. It seems to me that Pat Riley has the vision and the plan to be successful in almost any line of business he chooses in spite of some criticism from the way he handled leaving the New York Knicks.

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Summary: Excellent Book!
Review: As a MBA student I have learned the need to work well in teams, this book is excellent. You don't have to like basketball to enjoy it. I will admit, I hate the Lakers (GO SACRAMENTO KINGS!), but the analogies of teamwork and life go hand-in-hand with business and any setting where hardwork and teamwork materialize. Read this book with a highlighter handy, you will want to identify sections, quotes, and sayings that you will use in the future. Well worth the price and the time to read it. This is one of my favorite all-time business books.

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Summary: Excellent Book!
Review: As a MBA student I have learned the need to work well in teams, this book is excellent. You don't have to like basketball to enjoy it. I will admit, I hate the Lakers (GO SACRAMENTO KINGS!), but the analogies of teamwork and life go hand-in-hand with business and any setting where hardwork and teamwork materialize. Read this book with a highlighter handy, you will want to identify sections, quotes, and sayings that you will use in the future. Well worth the price and the time to read it. This is one of my favorite all-time business books.

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Summary: The Winner Within
Review: I received the book as a gift - and what a gift! The material covered is to do with team players. However, what actually happens is that if a person is open, he or she will find that this book gives personal growth as well. Excellently written, with real life examples all the way, it is invaluable. We have a project at the office that really needs to succeed, but without teaming it won't. This book makes the difference between success and failure! It has been said Pat goes on a bit now and again, but so what?! The focus of the book is to give people options, to make them aware of what to do and how to do - that is the essence! I have recommended this book not only to my office but to our training company that helps with team building.

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Summary: Winner Within - Makes you a Winner in General!
Review: I received the book as a gift - and what a gift! The material covered is to do with team players. However, what actually happens is that if a person is open, he or she will find that this book gives personal growth as well. Excellently written, with real life examples all the way, it is invaluable. We have a project at the office that really needs to succeed, but without teaming it won't. This book makes the difference between success and failure! It has been said Pat goes on a bit now and again, but so what?! The focus of the book is to give people options, to make them aware of what to do and how to do - that is the essence! I have recommended this book not only to my office but to our training company that helps with team building.

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Summary: The old Chicken or the Egg controversy, again!
Review: I've listend to Pat Riley speak on Charlie Rose's show on PBS and have been impressed with his ability to discuss the concepts of teamwork and leadership and obviously his winning record with different teams speaks for itself but somehow this book was unsatisfying. Oh, I think he has identified a number of significant areas in regard to team play like the "Disease of Me" (selfishness that ruins team play), the team's Core Covenant (which can be both good and bad -- how many of us work in environments whose only core covenant is "cover your a#$"), and complacency (when teams begin to taste success) but what got me was his use of the Lakers of the 80s to illustrate his points. What I couldn't help thinking was that Riley wasn't using his theories (The Egg) to shape his leadership of the Lakers but rather he used his experience with the Lakers (The Chicken) to create his theories. So which came first? Everything he outlines in his theory is matched by an experience he has had with his team. Doesn't this sound a bit too much like revisionist history? I particularly found it hard to swallow when he rationalized his leaving of the Lakers as a moment when a "team player" must go solo (Moving On). I had the sense that had he stayed with the Lakers his book would have added another chapter on perservering rather than leaving. A good theory informs and influences our practices. I think Mr. Riley has gone in the opposite direction and used a good practice (experience) to inform his theory. Unfortunately, I think this makes his book MUCH LESS APPLICABLE to all of us who want to learn how to lead teams and become winners. Just maybe, Pat, you won because of guys named Magic, Jabbar and Worhy rather than any theories about winning . . . What do you think? Maybe if I am going to coach the Lakers , I'll pick this book up again. Then again maybe not. I don't even like the Lakers and Magic isn't coming back again. Or is he?. You know, I have Phil Jackson's Sacred Hoops book on my shelf and I am afraid to begin it because it might be just like this one.

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Summary: Pat Riley is a winner. He can teach others to win!
Review: Pat Riley has been a winner as a player and as a coach. He's one of the few people I know who can tell you why he's a winner. Some people call that being a conscious competent. He's good and he knows why he's good. A person like that can teach others. He won as a player at Kentucky; he won at Los Angeles as a coach; he won at New York as a coach. That's a lot of winning. This book will help you develop the habit of winning in your life, which is the purpose of a self-help book. He gets a little technical at places which is why I only rated the book an "8." But it's worth the read. One of the best "coach books" I've read.

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Summary: A Great Book
Review: Pat Riley has Proven how to Win on the FLoor and here he shares Team Work to the fullest.it's a very Solid Book that Allows all to shine in work together.very well put together.

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Summary: A Game Plan for Team Players
Review: Pat Riley, one of the NBA's all-time great coaches, presents his game plan for winning and consciously creating success. Riley sometimes gets a little preachy, but he is an extremely focused individual, and explains how his principles and team motivation methods have made him a winner.

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Summary: Found my leading voice
Review: The Winner Within would definitely be my leading voice