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 He also includes previously unpublished analyses from former players and managers, including Bill Walton and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.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

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

"The Essential Wooden is vintage Coach Wooden and a great book for all managers who want to become more effective. Coach Wooden's values and 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 John Wooden. Every time I learn and grow from that experience. It is now your turn to receive nuggets of wisdom from this wonderful teacher. Each page of The Essential Wooden will benefit you and your organization."
--JOHN C. MAXWELL, author, speaker, and founder INJOY Stewardship Services and EQUIP

"A wonderful exposition of commonsense leadership from an uncommon leader--John Wooden. His legendary achievements stem from his 'old-fashioned' values. In The Essential Wooden he reveals how his character and 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 Effective People 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.

Synopsis:

More leadership wisdom from John Wooden that no manager, executive, or supervisor can afford to ignore. Following the "Wall Street Journal" bestseller "Wooden on Leadership" comes "The Essential Wooden", the most comprehensive collection of the legendary coach's thoughts and advice on what it takes to achieve exceptional leadership in any organization. This book offers you 200 key lessons - including Wooden's famous Pyramid of Success - on how to inspire championship performance in their staff. Every aspect of his leadership philosophy is in here - from personal drive and dedication to making one's vision known and optimism. "The Essential Wooden" is divided into four parts - Values, Victory, and Success; Preparation and Training of a Team; Maintaining the Competitive Edge; and the Wooden Playbook. Each chapter takes you closer to assembling a business team that always puts forth its best effort and performs to the best of its abilities.

About this edition

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