A Season on the Brink
by John Feinstein
A year inside Bob Knight's Indiana program: brilliance, intensity and abuse, unflinchingly reported. The classic inside-sports book and a cautionary study of leadership by fear.
Read it if…
you want a vivid, honest look at a demanding coach.
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Skip it if…
you want a model to copy; it is partly a warning.
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Three things you will actually use
- Standards and cruelty are different things.
- Intensity has costs.
- Results do not excuse everything.
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Read it and note what you would and would not emulate.
Our verdict
Inside a season of fire.
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