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How Good Do You Want to Be?: A Champion's Tips on How to Lead and Succeed at Work and in Life | 
 enlarge | Authors: Nick Saban, Brian Curtis
Publisher: Ballantine Books
List Price: $15.00
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Rating:  15 reviews
Media: Paperback
Edition: Reprint
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 0.6
ISBN: 0345500849
Dewey Decimal Number: 796
EAN: 9780345500847
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Product Description
He guided LSU to its first football championship in forty-five years. He turned down countless offers from professional teams to stay with the job he loves. Now Nick Saban reveals the secrets that will help you lead and succeed at work and in life.
Excellence doesn’t happen overnight. It comes from hard work, consistency, the drive to be the best, and a passion for what you do. Few understand this better than Nick Saban, the hottest college football coach in the game. Now, in How Good Do You Want to Be?, Saban shares his winning philosophy for creating and inspiring success.
In more than three decades as a player and coach, Saban has learned much about life and leadership, both on the field and off. Working alongside some of the game’s legends, including Super Bowl winner Bill Belichick and coaching legend Jerry Glanville, he saw firsthand how great leaders encourage greatness in others. In this candid, insightful guide, he shares such acquired wisdom as
• Organization, Organization, Organization
Create an environment where everybody knows his or her responsibilities–and each is responsible to the entire group.
• Motivate to Dominate
Understand the psychology of teams and individuals, and use that knowledge to breed success.
• No Other Way than Right
Practice ethics and values–and demand the same from your team.
• Look in the Mirror
Maintain an understanding of who you are by knowing your strengths and your weaknesses.
How Good Do You Want to Be? is more than the story of how Nick Saban motivates his staff and players to excel–it is also the memoir of one of America’s most successful coaches. Filled with instructive anecdotes and illuminated by never-before-told stories of his life and career, this is a book that challenges and inspires us all to be our best.
From the Hardcover edition.
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 This man has no soul October 14, 2008
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
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.
 This is the plan that works December 10, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Amazing that Nick Saban is such a great leader and will improve Alabama's misfortune. Nick will make Alabama the best again!
 Decent ideas - Not bad for a first effort September 25, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
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...
 Messenger vs. The Message September 6, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I bought and read this book before Nick Saban left LSU. Regardless of what you think of Nick's subsequent career moves, the lessons presented in the book are solid, relevant and a good read for anyone middle school and upwards.
Since the jacket cover has been changed to reflect Nick's new team, I just wonder if the paperback edition has all references to LSU edited out???
This is one you've got to read May 7, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is one of the best I've read this year. The message applies not only to football, but to everyday living. I bought a copy for myself and my teenage sons.
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