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Title:
Attitude : develop a winning mindset on and off the court / Jay Wright with Michael Sheridan and Mark Dagostino ; foreword by Charles Barkley.
Author:
Wright, Jay, 1961- author.

Sheridan, Michael, 1947 October 17- author.

Dagostino, Mark author.

Barkley, Charles, 1963- author of foreword.
ISBN:
9780399180859
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Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
xvi, 267 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Content Type:
text
Media Type (RDA):
unmediated
Carrier Type:
volume
Contents:
Foreword / by Charles Barkley -- Introduction: Game on -- It's not about the championship -- Where I come from -- Creating a culture of success -- Be here now -- The real progress comes when no one's watching -- From many good players, one special team -- Setting a tone -- A strong start -- How to win by losing -- Up and down and up again -- In the zone -- Home and away -- Humble and hungry -- The good and the bad of being the best -- The grind -- Senior moments -- Buckets over Broadway -- Opening weekend jitters -- The sweetest sixteen -- Bang -- The 2015-2016 Villanova Wildcats.
Abstract:
When Kris Jenkins sank a three-pointer at the buzzer to win the 2016 NCAA Tournament, it was a victory not just for a team and its coach but for an entire program. In his twentieth season with the Villanova program, including a five-year stint as an assistant to Coach Rollie Massimino, Coach Jay Wright had achieved his lifelong dream -- and witnessed the culmination of a decades-long effort to build a culture of winning around a set of core values. Now Coach Wright shares the leadership secrets that have enabled Villanova, a private university with an undergraduate enrollment of less than 6,500, to thrive in the hypercompetitive world of college athletics. As he recounts the story of the 2015-16 Wildcats, Coach Wright offers anecdotes from his own journey up the ladder of success, with lessons learned on the Little League playing fields of his youth and wisdom passed down from his coaches and mentors. Each step of Villanova's journey to a national championship incorporates a signature term torn from Coach Wright's own motivational playbook. Here are key principles that aspiring leaders can apply, not only on the basketball court but in the boardroom, the classroom, and the living room. From learning to accept your role to remembering to honor those who came before us, Jay Wright's core values provide a positive blueprint for transformational team building based on the idea that anyone -- from the head coach to the last player on the bench -- can be a leader when the moment demands it.
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Books