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The Essential Wooden | 
 enlarge | Authors: John Wooden, Steve Jamison
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 44234
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 188
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.1 x 0.9
ISBN: 0071484353
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.4092
EAN: 9780071484350
ASIN: 0071484353
Publication Date: December 15, 2006
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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 He also includes previously unpublished analyses from former players and managers, including Bill Walton and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.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.
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 Leading by a Sterling Life Example August 20, 2008
He was born in a small town within a state that was a hotbed for basketball. Reading this short but informative book, one gathers that Mr. Wooden never lost sight of his roots. Life lessons from his father, Joshua, seemed to present him with a blueprint of hard work, discipline, common sense, courtesy, repetition, organization, and self-confidence. Ultimately, being respected as the premier coach in his chosen field. "UCLA" entered the American sports lexicon for perpetual excellence.
While the theme is basketball and leadership, Coach Wooden weaves personal stories, along with insightful reflections by several of his former players, to make this a very entertaining and educational book. He stresses the importance of the team over the individual in very clear language. He provides many examples of this aspect in a respectful yet enlightening tone. This book was structured like one of his legendary and intense practices: Every page was scripted for efficiency and future reference. At his core, Coach Wooden was the consummate teacher.
One quote, among many others, sums up this book for me: "I rarely scouted other teams. Except for UCLA." He believed that the real competition occurs from within, even though he maintained a healthy respect for his opposition. He also stressed that coaches and bosses should lead by example. Kareem Abdul Jabbar, one of his most famous student athletes, said, "He was 40 years older than us, but he was out there on the floor demonstrating what he wanted."
Thank you for the opportunity to review this intriguing book by one of our greatest teachers of teamwork and leadership.
Great Book April 20, 2008
This man was an excellent leader, he did it by keeping things simple and basic. Most of all he put people first and placed high value on giving 100% all the time. Coach would be upset if you won and only gave 50% while on the other hand he would be proud of you if you gave 110% and still lost. Great guy, good book.
Outstanding!!!! November 17, 2007
This book is a great book on leadership and life in general. I am just a little too young to remember Coach Wooden's great teams, but I have always heard of them. Coach Wooden's philosophy is that winning will take care of itself if you will always give your best effort and just do the best you can do. This book is different because so much of the time teams today only care if they win and not if they did their best and this book takes the exact opposite view. GREAT BOOK on leadership, teamwork and effort!
An American Icon September 12, 2007
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A book to familiarize yourself with Wooden's Pyramid of Success. The down to Earth view of what it takes to be successful in anything you engage in is laid out in this book. Coach Wooden used the ideas here to mold his basketball teams but the underlying ideas can be applied to anything in life and allow you to be successful and fullfilled. Following the ideas he presents will make you a good person and who could ask for more then that.
Quick read, gread value July 16, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Here is a book that is sure to inspire you. From the first pages it grips you, then keeps your attention until the very end. Wooden's philosophy emphasizes that sucess is not measured in "bottom-line" results -- such as games won, sales figures, or other analogous metrics -- but rather on reaching the maximum potential one can achieve -- either individually or as a team. The measure of this becomes self-evident through honest preparation, intensity of practice, selflessness, and so-on. End results, then, are simply byproducts of hard work that was paid up front. Other discussions center around concepts of teamwork, and how to handle people. These have value for everyone, not just leaders and players.
The book is an easy read, and very well written. You won't be disappointed with this one.
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