USA Basketball Coach Mike Krzyzewski (Duke University's Coach K) to Write About World-Class...

USA Basketball Coach Mike Krzyzewski (Duke University's Coach K) to Write
About World-Class Team Building and the Olympic Gold Medal Quest

NEW YORK, Aug. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Business Plus, an imprint of Grand
Central Publishing (Hachette Book Group), has announced it will publish a new
book by Duke University basketball coaching legend and U.S. Men's Olympic
Basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski (Coach K). Tentatively slated for
publication in Spring 2009 and co-written with his daughter, Jamie K. Spatola,
Krzyzewski will reveal the unique leadership skills that he used to unify a
diverse group of NBA superstars and win the gold medal in the 2008 Summer
Olympic Games in Beijing.
In his previous bestselling books including "Leading with the Heart" and
"Beyond Basketball," Krzyzewski guided readers to success the way he has
guided his teams at Duke -- with his inspirational words and phenomenal
leadership skills. Now, after stepping up to take on an entirely new
challenge by volunteering to coach the U.S. Men's Olympic Basketball team,
Coach K has achieved another great accomplishment -- leading the team in
Beijing to a gold medal. Krzyzewski will reveal how he took some of the
biggest NBA stars and molded an American team that won against the best
competition in the world and restored Team USA to the gold standard of
basketball.
More than a celebratory book, it will be Krzyzewski's first-hand account
of how he worked with such stars as LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, Dwayne Wade and
Carmelo Anthony to buy into his "total team" play. A book on basketball and on
management techniques, it will feature Krzyzewski's personal style and
approach to getting people to work together and succeed in reaching a common
goal.
"There are so many amazing stories from this recent Olympic experience and
to share them in a book project will be fantastic," said Krzyzewski. "I'm
looking forward to collaborating with Jamie and working with all of the great
people at Grand Central Publishing again. The U.S. Olympic gold medal team
has served as a perfect example of what successful team building is all
about."
In making the announcement, Rick Wolff, Vice President, Executive Editor,
Grand Central Publishing and Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Business Plus
said, "We absolutely cherish our long-term publishing relationship with one of
America's truly legendary coaches, and we're thrilled to be able to work with
Mike and Jamie on this project. All basketball fans know that America still
has the highest total of top stars, but it took the coaching magic of Coach K
to find the right players, get them to work as a team, and to bring home the
gold. We anticipate this work to be a meaningful case study in fundamental
management techniques, and as with his previous books, transcend the world of
sports."
Mike Krzyzewski has been the head basketball coach of the Duke Blue Devils
for 28 years, winning 730 games and three NCAA championships at the school,
while also earning National Coach of the Year awards twelve times. Coach K was
inducted in the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 2001 and is the sixth
winningest NCAA Division I coach with 803 total wins, including five seasons
as the head coach at West Point, his alma mater.
About Business Plus/Hachette Book Group
Business Plus, an imprint of Grand Central Publishing and Hachette Book
Group, publishes books in areas such as personal finance, marketing,
management, economic trends, careers, and leadership. At the forefront of
publishing new and provocative titles, Business Plus books address issues
facing today's global business community. Bestselling Business Plus authors
include Robert Kiyosaki, Jack Welch, Michael Abrashoff, Robert I. Sutton, and
Stephen Leeb.
Hachette Book Group is a leading trade publisher based in New York and a
division of Hachette Livre, the second largest publisher in the world.
Hachette Book Group's product lines include adult, illustrated, religious,
children's and audio books under the Little, Brown and Company, Little Brown
Books for Young Readers, Grand Central Publishing, FaithWords, Center Street,
Orbit, Yen Press and Hachette Book Group Digital Media imprints.
SOURCE Grand Central Publishing

Rob Nissen for Grand Central Publishing, +1-973-410-1234,
rob.nissen@hbgusa.com