The Carolina Way Leadership Lessons from a Life in Coaching

For forty years, Dean Smith coached the University of North Carolina basketball team with unsurpassed success. Now, in The Carolina Way, he explains his coaching philosophy and shows readers how to apply it to the leadership and team-building challenges they face in their own lives. In his wry, sensible, wise way, Coach Smith takes us through every aspect of his program, illustrating his insights with vivid stories. Accompanying each of Coach Smith’s major points is a Player Perspective” from a former North Carolina basketball star and an in-depth Business Perspective” from Gerald D. Bell, a world-renowned leadership consultant and a professor at UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School. The keystones of Coach Smith’s coaching philosophy are widely applicable and centrally relevant to building successful teams of any kind.

Dean Smith is the winningest coach in the history of not only college basketball but of any sport. Smith is the author of the bestselling A Coach-'s Life; he lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Gerald D. Bell has taught at the University of North Carolina-'s Kenan-Flagler Business School for more than thirty years.
John Kilgo is an award-winning newspaper columnist, living in Davidson, North Carolina.
Roy Williams is the current head basketball coach at the University of North Carolina.