Polls indicate that candidates of the conservative Grand National Party are in the lead to succeed him.
The doubting -- or imploding -- Pitino does not appear in "Lead to Succeed".
That confidence -- and his track record -- secured his place as a corporate speaker and demand for "Lead to Succeed".
Analysts and people inside Merrill interpreted Mr. O'Neal's job switch as a sign that he had the early lead to succeed David H. Komansky as chairman and chief executive in a few years.
Even if you sympathize with Pitino's having had underachieving players rejecting his leadership, you wonder how he squares his extreme reaction to failure in Boston with the advice he dispensed in "Lead to Succeed" (Broadway Books), which came out last May after the Celtics finished 35-47 in the 1999-2000 season.
("Joe Torre's Ground Rules for Winners," Rick Pitino's "Lead to Succeed," Pat Croce's "Lead or Get Off the Pot!," Donald T. Phillips's "Lincoln on Leadership").
"Lead to Succeed" was preceded by his 1997 book, "Success Is a Choice," which employed tales about coaching Patrick Ewing, Mark Jackson or Antoine Walker to help readers, maybe the middle manager in a plastics factory, or a human resources executive at a nonprofit foundation, achieve his or her goals.
"Tsvangirai may be lured into accepting a power-sharing arrangement which would lead to Mugabe succeeding himself through puppets from ZANU-PF," Raila Odinga, the Kenyan prime minister, said in an interview on Thursday.
For many advertising and media executives, the name Carol Bartz Carol Bartz has been a vague mystery up until her name surfaced as the lead candidate to succeed Jerry Yang Jerry Yang as Yahoo's chief executive less than a week ago.
Leading candidates to succeed Mr. Ashcroft include Alberto R. Gonzales, the White House counsel, and Marc Racicot, the chairman of Mr. Bush's re-election campaign.
