The Essential Wooden: A Lifetime of Lessons on Leaders and Leadership - Hardcover

Wooden, John; Jamison, Steve

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0071484353 ISBN 13: 9780071484350

Publisher: McGraw Hill, 2007

Synopsis

The Essential Wooden--more leadership lessons from the Wooden playbook

The Essential Wooden is the ultimate collection of Wooden’s opinions and observations on achieving exceptional leadership in any organization, with 200 invaluable lessons for inspiring championship performance.

Coach Wooden offers his hard-won wisdom on building an organization that performs at its full potential under pressure, from preparing and training the team to instilling personal drive and dedication. He takes his famous Pyramid of Success to the next level, filling the entire book with his straight-shooting personality and keen insight on human nature.

Wooden shares rarely seen preseason letters to his players, revealing how he instilled productive attitudes and winning ways. He also includes previously unpublished analyses from former players and managers, including Bill Walton and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

From Wooden’s earliest days as a leader through his legendary UCLA dynasty, The Essential Wooden distills a lifetime of learning into the leadership playbook for the twenty-first century.

About this title

About the Authors

Steve Jamison is America's foremost author and authority on the life and philosophy of John Wooden. Mr. Jamison is a consultant to the UCLA Anderson Scool of Business’ John Wooden Global Leadership Program. He has collaborated with Coach Wooden on an award-winning PBS presentation as well as several books, including the classic book on teaching and mentoring, Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections.

John Wooden (1910-2010), guided the UCLA Bruins to ten NCAA basketball championships over a 12-year period, including four perfect seasons and an 88-game winning streak. He was named ESPN’s “Greatest Coach of the 20th Century” and voted “#1 Coach of All Time” by The Sporting News. Sports Illustrated said it best when they said: “There’s never been a finer man in American sports than John Wooden, or a finer coach.” In 2003 John Wooden was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

From the Back Cover

A sure winner! The Essential Wooden presents the basics of leadershipas taught by one of America's great leaders, John Wooden. His observationsand conclusions about success and competitive greatness are asbrilliant as gems--and just as valuable.
--KEN BLANCHARD, coauthor of The One Minute Manager®and Leading at a Higher Level

The Essential Wooden is vintage Coach Wooden and a great book forall managers who want to become more effective. Coach Wooden's valuesand methods will lead to lasting, positive results.
--JEFF HENLEY, Chairman of the Board, Oracle Corporation

It has been my privilege to have several conversations with JohnWooden. Every time I learn and grow from that experience. It is now yourturn to receive nuggets of wisdom from this wonderful teacher. Eachpage of The Essential Wooden will benefit you and your organization.
--JOHN C. MAXWELL, author, speaker, and founderINJOY Stewardship Services and EQUIP

A wonderful exposition of commonsense leadership from an uncommonleader--John Wooden. His legendary achievements stem from his'old-fashioned' values. In The Essential Wooden he reveals how his characterand skills were honed and how they apply in the 21st century.Required reading for anyone who aspires to being a great leader.
--STEPHEN R. COVEY, author, The 7 Habits of Highly EffectivePeople and The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness

"There is nothing fancy in what I teach about team building--nothing that requires a special gift, privilege, or access to power. Rather, it requires dedication to certain principles and concepts, which I include in this book."
--John Wooden

The Essential Wooden is the ultimate collection of Wooden's opinions and observations on achieving exceptional leadership in any organization, with 200 invaluable lessons for inspiring championship performance.

Coach Wooden offers his hard-won wisdom on building an organization that performs at its full potential under pressure, from preparing and training the team to instilling personal drive and dedication. He takes his famous Pyramid of Success to the next level, filling the entire book with his straight-shooting personality and keen insight on human nature.

Wooden shares rarely seen preseason letters to his players, revealing how he instilled productive attitudes and winning ways. He also includes previously unpublished analyses from former players and managers, including Bill Walton and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

From Wooden's earliest days as a leader through his legendary UCLA dynasty, The Essential Wooden distills a lifetime of learning into the leadership playbook for the twenty-first century.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw Hill
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0071484353
• ISBN 13: 9780071484350
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208