Coach Dawn Staley Named in CNN Article "The World's 50 Greatest Leaders"

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Staley, 43, Head coach, University of South Carolina women's basketball team

There's no playbook for how to become an elite leader in basketball. Whether it's John Wooden teaching his UCLA players the proper way to tie their shoes or Zen master (and new Knicks president) Phil Jackson referencing Buddha, the point is to get five players working in harmony -- however you do it. Three active coaches with very different styles stand out. Or Dawn Staley, who has led women's teams at Temple and South Carolina to storied records? The former WNBA star initially didn't want to coach. But as Staley noted at her induction into the National Basketball Hall of Fame in 2013, she knew she made the right decision when "I started to care more about my players than to win." That might be the common trait of the great ones.

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