The One-Day Contract: How to Add Value to Every Minute of Your Life Author: Visit Amazon's Rick Pitino Page | Language: English | ISBN:
1250041066 | Format: PDF
The One-Day Contract: How to Add Value to Every Minute of Your Life Description
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Praise for Success Is a Choice:
“So much more than another Armani suit, Pitino has done a job of psychology and salesmanship that should serve as a how-to manual for his profession.” —Chicago Sun-Times
“Pitino’s track record is extraordinary . . . his personal style is also winning.” —Time
About the Author
RICK PITINO is the head basketball coach at the University of Louisville. He won the NCAA Championship in 2013 with the Louisville Cardinals and the 1996 NCAA Championship with the Kentucky Wildcats—the only basketball coach to win national titles at two different universities. He will formally enter the Basketball Hall of Fame on September 8, 2013. Pitino also was head coach at Providence College during its remarkable NCAA tournament in 1987, and in the NBA as head coach of the New York Knicks and Boston Celtics. He has written five business and leadership books, Rebound Rules, Lead to Succeed, Full-Court Pressure, Born to Coach, and the #1 New York Times bestseller Success is a Choice.
ERIC CRAWFORD is an award-winning sports journalist in Louisville, Ky., where he writes and appears on the air for WDRB Television. He spent twelve years at the Louisville Courier-Journal newspaper, including six years as senior sports columnist. His work has been honored by the Associated Press Sports Editors and the Society for Professional Journalists, and has appeared in numerous newspapers as well as online for ESPN, The Sporting News and CNN.
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- Hardcover: 272 pages
- Publisher: St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition (October 1, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1250041066
- ISBN-13: 978-1250041067
- Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.4 x 1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Pros: The book is an easy read. It's well organized and delivered with some personal stories and behind the scenes access - spanning Coach Pitino's entire illustrious career (from BU to Louisville). It offers some unique tips on adding value to your life (i.e. humility, focus, organization). In particular, I found the 'Trap of Technology' chapter to be super insightful. I think this chapter alone should be required reading for everyone who wants to succeed in life, beyond becoming Twitter star. Also the principle of making your career/job as your 'season' is especially inspiring. Pitino writes (in my words): Would we expect Tom Brady to be tweeting on the sidelines during a game? Of course not. Then we shouldn't be surfing the web when it's our game-time - whether that is as a stock broker or a network engineer or parenting. Do your job. And stay focused. Go online in your off time and use it as a 'Meaningful Distraction,' (Chapter 8))... Finally, the price was right. I purchased it for only 11 bucks on my Kindle. Real. Good. Deal!
Cons: The non-stop adoration of Bill and Hillary Clinton was a bit tough to take for a right-leaning reader who expected an apolitical self-help book (e.g. Hillary Clinton was a "highly successful Secretary of State.") I guess if you don't count Benghazi & the Middle East becoming even more of a hellhole. Yes, she was super "successful." To use one of Pitino's terms in the book, it was a unneeded distraction. It seemed like every chapter name dropped a Clinton. To provide credence to some of his principles, he could have easily used more apolitical, (far) less polarizing examples. Also, I found some of the other supporting examples to be a bit anecdotal and/or outlandish.
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