Success is a Choice
Ten Steps to Overachieving in Business and Life

I think people are just hating on this book because it's got a hokey cover and is about a basketball coach. I read the book after reading Malcolm Gladwell's "Outliers" and thought that the two complimented each other well. The book talks about being positive, hard-work, adapting, and refusing to qui......more

So, I am kinda burnt out a bit on the self-help genre, not sure why I picked this one up. The advice is very conventional in many ways: work hard, believe in yourself, have persistence, don't be overwhelmed by failure, nothing really new here. HOWEVER ... I did find the specific way that Pitino applie......more

This is what happens when they give you a raise and tell you you're the boss. The man hands you books like these, and tells you to read them. And be prepared to discuss them during staff meetings.........more

Rick Pitino is the best college basketball coach I've seen. John Wooden at UCLA has an actual claim to having been the greatest, but if the two went head to head, I'd put my money on Pitino, and Success is a Choice spells out the reasons why. In this bestseller, Pitino lays out his ten steps to over......more

I love Rick Pitino, big fan in spite of the recruiting scandal. This book is kind of a throwaway though. Feel like he simply took the opportunity to cash in on a book deal after winning the National title in 1996. It's ultra-conventional self-help fodder. There's probably been a thousand books with t......more