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Leadership Principles: How the Team Improves

Coach Dean Smith instilled many significant leadership principles into my life. I am sharing some of them with you over these two weeks. I hope they are especially meaningful as we experience March Madness.

One of his principles was, "As individuals improve, the team improves."

I went into Coach Smith's office after my sophomore year for my annual interview. I wanted to know how I could get more playing time. In asking him, I used the mantra I knew he would appreciate, "Coach, how can I help the team?"

He looked at me and repeated my question back to me. "You want to help the team next year?"…

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