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A Passion to Lead: Seven Leadership Secrets for Success in Business, Sports, and Life
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Summary: Calhoun's A Passion to Lead draws practical leadership lessons from the basketball court and applies these to everyday life. Relying heavily on his experiences as a coach and the experiences of his players, Calhoun preaches the value of ambition and the virtue of hard-work. His book is roughly organized around seven broad leadership principles, such as the need for high standards, discipline, contingency plans, and tough mindedness in order to achieve success. To support these principles, Calhoun marshals a seemingly endless series of basketball anecdotes, each summarized with the rhetorical flare of a halftime pep talk. In this way, Calhoun exhibits at least as much passion for basketball as he does for leadership. The book concludes, strangely enough, with an informal catalogue of the author's accomplishments followed by a string of stirring exhortations, the whole of which reduces simply to the idea, "I did it, so can you!"
Assessment: Despite its aspirations, A Passion to Lead fails to contribute much original or meaningful thought to the ongoing leadership discussion in our culture. The work suffers from loose organization on major and minor levels. The reader finds himself adrift in each chapter, without the aid of logical thought progressions between sections. Moreover, the sheer volume of basketball related material in the book detracts from its primary purpose: namely, to elucidate leadership principles for life. The principles that do emerge often come across as clichA or coach-speak. This all would lead a cynic to conclude the book was composed hastily in order to capitalize on the name recognition of its author and laud his success in coaching (not to contributing insight on leadership). While A Passion to Lead proves an entertaining read for the college basketball enthusiast or the University of Connecticut devotee, for the thoughtful leader it amounts to a waste of precious time. |
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