Overall, this is not a terribly impressive book. Its five sections, based on titles apparently chosen primarily to create the desired acronym, frequently overlap, and passages within sections are haphazardly organized and at times are not really relevant to the purported theme of the section. Thus, the sections on being  "Conviction-Driven" and  "Honesty-Based" both boil down to messages about the importance of displaying personal integrity in coaching and in business, and the sections on  "Overlearning" and  "Consistency" actually become lessons not on how employees should be trained or treated, but on the importance of closely monitoring one's subordinates at all times. The observations are an uneven mixture of valuable advice, vague and commonsensical exhortations that are unlikely to be helpful, and lessons about football coaching that at best relate imperfectly to other fields. Thus, it is definitely worthwhile to be advised that simply setting goals is not enough, but that one must also set up detailed plans for achieving those goals; I had not thought of that before. Yet it is not especially helpful to be told that the real secret of a successful business is to always have excellent employees, since this is both obviously true and also the sort of advice that falls into the category of "easier said than done." And the concept of "overlearning," or learning how to do something so thoroughly that people can effectively put their brains on "autopilot" and do the task automatically, may be useful in training football players how to execute offensive and defensive plays, but it would seem irrelevant to training employees who, for example, must regularly interact with customers—situations in which putting one's brains on "autopilot" would manifestly be disastrous.

             In general, I am always suspicious about the value of self-help or self-improvement books or instructional seminars. While they might have a few genuinely innovative or helpful things to say, such books and seminars seem largely devoted to saying things that a person could readily think of on their own, delivered by professional consultants who may be skilled at projecting supreme self-confidence but are not necessarily as capable as they would like their audiences to believe. (The Little Book of Coaching, for example, conveniently overlooks the fact that the quality of Don Shula's football teams gradually deteriorated in the 1980s and 1990s, so that he was eventually gently forced to quit coaching the Miami Dolphins.) If such books and seminars work, I suspect it is largely because their readers and participants feel that, having paid for this advice, they are obliged to follow it; thus, they have a positive effect not because they magically transform ineffective managers into brilliant managers, but because they prod managers to go ahead and actually do all the things that they have long been planning to do. So, for that reason if for no other reason, one can say that these books and seminars are indeed valuable tools in improving people's job performances.