The Essential Wooden: A Lifetime of Lessons on Leaders and Leadership by Wooden, John; Jamison, Steve;

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?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.

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

The Essential Wooden is the ultimate collectionof Wooden?s opinions and observationson achieving exceptional leadership in anyorganization, with 200 invaluable lessons forinspiring championship performance.

Coach Wooden offers his hard-wonwisdom on building an organization thatperforms at its full potential under pressure,from preparing and training the team toinstilling personal drive and dedication. Hetakes his famous Pyramid of Success to thenext level, filling the entire book with hisstraight-shooting personality and keen insighton human nature.

Wooden shares rarely seen preseason lettersto his players, revealing how he instilledproductive attitudes and winning ways. Healso includes previously unpublished analysesfrom former players and managers, includingBill Walton and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

From Wooden?s earliest days as a leaderthrough his legendary UCLA dynasty, TheEssential Wooden distills a lifetime of learninginto the leadership playbook for the twenty-firstcentury.

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

The Essential Wooden is the ultimate collectionof Wooden?s opinions and observationson achieving exceptional leadership in anyorganization, with 200 invaluable lessons forinspiring championship performance.

Coach Wooden offers his hard-wonwisdom on building an organization thatperforms at its full potential under pressure,from preparing and training the team toinstilling personal drive and dedication. Hetakes his famous Pyramid of Success to thenext level, filling the entire book with hisstraight-shooting personality and keen insighton human nature.

Wooden shares rarely seen preseason lettersto his players, revealing how he instilledproductive attitudes and winning ways. Healso includes previously unpublished analysesfrom former players and managers, includingBill Walton and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

From Wooden?s earliest days as a leaderthrough his legendary UCLA dynasty, TheEssential Wooden distills a lifetime of learninginto the leadership playbook for the twenty-firstcentury.

Table of Contents:

Why Leadership is Teaching

Character is More than the Truth

Maximize Your Assets

The Key to Enthusiasm

Give Credit to Lesser Roles

Deliver or Depart

Why Ego can be a Good Thing

Know the Levers of Success

How to Create Trust

Taking team to next level

Don?t mistake activity for achievement

Don?t be a Pushover

Do Your Best and You?ll Never Lose

Take Pride in Efficiency

Make 2 + 2 = 6

Confidence comes from Confidence

Create No Second Class citizens

Instead of the East Way

The First Law of Communicating

The Four (4) Clues to Success

Help Overcome Fear of Mistakes

The Sound of Enthusiasm

Why onlookers are onlookers

Don?t Kick the Wheels

Criticize in Good Times, Command in Bad

Be Quick, but Don?t Worry

The Leader?s Toolkit

Superstars and Unsung Heroes

Disappointment vs. Misery

Why making someone feel good about what they?ve done is more productive than making someone feel bad about what they should have done

Use More Carrots than Sticks

The 3 E?s: ego, efforts, excellence!