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

    By John Wooden and Steve Jamison

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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 He also includes previously unpublished analyses from former players and managers, including Bill Walton and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMcGraw-Hill Education
    Release dateJan 5, 2007
    ISBN9780071631556
    The Essential Wooden: A Lifetime of Lessons on Leaders and Leadership
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    John Wooden

    John Wooden is the most successful coach in NCAA history, having led the UCLA Bruins to 665 victories and ten championships in the years leading up to 1975. Since his retirement, he has become a mentor to dozens of athletes, journalists, and writers, and the author of eight books.

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      The Essential Wooden - John Wooden

      organization.

      PART I

      LEADERSHIP, VALUES, VICTORY, AND SUCCESS

      PRESEASON LETTER TO THE TEAM

      JULY 23, 1971

      If each of you makes every effort to develop to the best of your ability, follow the proper rules of conduct and activity most conducive to good physical condition, subordinate individual acclaim for the welfare of the team, and permit no personality clashes or differences of opinion with teammates or coaches to interfere with your or a teammate’s efforts, it will be a very rewarding year.

      WHO I AM

      I am a lucky man—a teacher. I believe that teaching may be the most rewarding job on earth. Perhaps the most important next to being a parent.

      What follows is my philosophy of leadership, my concept of success and how to achieve it, and my approach to coaching (which is another word for team building). I’ve spent most of my professional life teaching all three. All three are bound together as essential elements of my overall

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