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What is the biggest obstacle you have faced professionally?

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The American Academy of Achievement, to its honourees, its oral-history interviews

The Academy of Achievement repeatedly asks honorees to identify a major professional obstacle or challenge and describe confronting it.

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Mike Krzyzewski Basketball coach at Duke University, 1980-2022; winner of five NCAA championships
In ’91, we were playing Nevada Las Vegas, and they’d won 45 in a row. It was almost like it would be okay to lose. Everybody would say, “Oh, that’s all right.” That, to me, was the biggest obstacle. I was most proud of that game, because, as a leader, I helped my group overcome rationalization at the highest level. When we beat them, and then beat Kansas for the National Championship, everyone was saying, “Boy, you won the National Championship,” but for me, it was amazing because I got over that final hurdle, as a leader and a teacher.
Recorded Academy of Achievement, Academy of Achievement interview, Durham, North Carolina, 1 May 2001 source ↗

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