The Essential Wooden: A Lifetime of Lessons on Leaders and Leadership (BUSINESS BOOKS) - 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 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 Healso includes previously unpublished analysesfrom former players and managers, includingBill Walton and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.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.

About this title

About the Authors

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 ESPNs 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: Theres 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.

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.

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.

From the Inside Flap

"While I played to win, winning was never the way I measured
my success. Nor was it how I gauged the success of those under my
supervision."

Legendary coach John Wooden fought hard to win - always. But
he came to recognize early on that knowing how to give one's best effort
and the ability to teach it to others was the key to successful leadership.
It's a fundamental component of his approach to competition, team building,
and leadership excellence. It is the focus of this book.,/p>

The
Essential Wooden is the ultimate collection of Wooden's opinions and
observations on achieving leadership success with your organization.
Drawing upon every nuance of his philosophy-from creating the vision and
educating the team to personal drive, dedication, and maintaining
competitive greatness-Wooden presents 200 invaluable lessons for providing
exceptional leadership and inspiring championship performance.

Expanding
upon the concepts in his bestselling Wooden on Leadership, Wooden offers
his hard-won wisdom on building an organization that performs at its full
potential under pressure. He takes his famous Pyramid of Success to the
next level, infusing every chapter with his straight-shooting personality
and keen insights on human nature.

The Essential Wooden features rarely
seen pre-season letters from Wooden to his players revealing how he
instilled productive attitudes and winning ways. It also includes
never-before-seen analysis from former players and managers ranging from
Wooden's earliest days as a leader through his legendary UCLA
dynasty.

From attaining vital leadership values, to the most effective
ways to prep and train your organization, to keeping a competitive edge,
The Essential Wooden distills a lifetime of learning into the leadership
playbook for the twenty-first century.

John Wooden and his historic UCLA
dynasty won 10 NCAA national championships in 12 years including seven in a
row, 88 straight games and four perfect seasons.Steve Jamison is America's pre-eminent authority
on John Wooden's leadership methodology. A popular speaker, Mr. Jamison has
collaborated with Mr. Wooden on several best-selling books and an
award-winning PBS presentation.

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