Russell Rules: 11 Lessons on Leadership from the 20th Century's Greatest Winner FROM OUR EDITORS
Bill Russell's achievements, which include winning 11 NBA Championships in 13 seasons with the Boston Celtics, led Sports Illustrated to name him the "Greatest Team Player" of the 20th century. In Russell Rules, he shares the leadership principles that enabled him to develop the mental and emotional qualities necessary for success.
FROM THE PUBLISHER
In this invaluable book, Bill Russell shares the insights, the memories, and most important, the essential "rules of success" that influenced him in every aspect of his life, from raising a daughter as a single father to becoming a successful coach and mentor to others. Filled with personal and professional stories of his days playing with Celtic greats Bob Cousy, Tom Heinsohn, Sam Jones, and coach Red Auerbach, Russell Rules offers inspiring lessons on commitment, personal integrity, teamwork, and success.
Author Biography: Bill Russell is a true original, an innovator, and he defines winning. He won eleven championships in thirteen seasons with the Boston Celtics and coached the team in two of those championships. He was the first African American to coach a professional sports team and the first and only player/coach to win two NBA championships without an assistant. He was the first athlete to win a NCAA championship, an Olympic Gold Medal, and a NBA championship all in one year. He was named the Twentieth Century's Greatest Team Player by Sports Illustrated, and HBO recognized Russell as "The Greatest Winner of the Twentieth Century."
David Falkner is the author of several highly acclaimed books on sports including Sadaharu Oh: A Zen Way of Baseball, The Last Yankee, and Great Time Coming: The Life of Jackie Robinson, from Baseball to Birmingham.
SYNOPSIS
He epitomizes innovation, teamwork, and leadership. Now, Bill Russell, winner of eleven championships as a player and coach of the Boston Celtics and five-time NBA Most Valuable Player, reveals the eleven lessons that helped him achieve his goals and can help anyone attain success in their professional and personal lives.
Bill Russell has been hailed as the greatest team player of the twentieth century, the most important and most valuable basketball player ever, and its greatest winner. Every CEO, manager, entrepreneur, or parent can benefit from his original perspectives on leadership and teamwork, which helped this living legend succeed beyond what anyone in his profession has done before or since. In Russell Rules, Bill Russell shares for the first time in print the insights, humor, memories, and most important, the essential "rules of success" that made him and his team perennial champions. He also shares his personal thoughts on his legendary battles with Wilt Chamberlain as well as how others (Michael Jordan and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) would have fared with him in head-to-head play. filled with never-before-revealed stories of his days playing with Celtic greats such as Bob Cousy, Tom Heinsohn, Sam and K.C. Jones, John Havlicek, and coach Red Auerbach, Russell Rules offers inspiring lessons on commitment, personal integrity, team ego, and craftsmanship.
FROM THE CRITICS
AudioFile
This audiobook will have special appeal to basketball junkies and fans of NBA great Bill Russell. Memories—personal and professional—provide an inside look at basketball in the days when Russell and the Celtics ruled the courts. Narrator Rif Hutton reads with passion, as if articulating his own memories and beliefs. He addresses the listener with sincerity, infusing even tedious passages with enthusiasm. Some of the "rules" are recycled standards of the business/self-help genre; others don't quite make the transition from basketball to business. That said, there are valuable insights into teamwork and leadership and interesting anecdotes about the good old days when basketball players weren't traded like cards, all read with feeling. E.S. (c) AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine
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