This is what I had to learn back when I was a young coach, just starting out in my chosen profession. It's an important lesson, maybe the most important lesson. People are placed in leadership positions and think that simply having the title makes them effective leaders, that simply being called the boss solves all the problems and makes everything function both smoothly and efficiently. It does not. Not even close.
Leaders are only effective when they effectively lead the people they're in charge of.
More to the point, leaders are only successful when the people they're leading become successful. This passage is apt because it closely resembles what the Coast Guard teaches in Leadership and Management road shows. This book was very easy reading and will be appealing to the sports-minded reader. Rick Pitino took the bottom dweller, tiny college of Providence to the final four of college basketball in 2 years, then led Kentucky to a National Championship. Professionally he helped build the New York Knicks to the playoff team they are today and is now facing his biggest challenge of making the Boston Celtics the proud franchise they once were.