The Essential Wooden: A Lifetime of Lessons on Leaders and Leadership
John Wooden and Steve Jamison
Format: Hardcover, 188pp.
ISBN: 9780071484350
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date: December 15, 2006
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Description and Reviews
From The Publisher:
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 the Authors
John Wooden is UCLA Coach Emeritus, the winner of 10 national championships in 12 years. He was named as Coach of the Century by ESPN and is the only basketball hall-of-famer to be inducted as both a player and a coach.
Steve Jamison is a columnist, speaker, and the writer that has worked most closely with John Wooden on most of his books including Wooden on Leadership.

Table of Contents
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| Preface | ix |
| Prologue | xv |
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| Part 1 | Leadership, Values, Victory, and Success | 1 |
| Part 2 | Preparation and Training of a Team | 53 |
| Part 3 | Maintaining the Competitive Edge | 101 |
| Part 4 | Notes to Myself | 135 |
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| Epilogue | 189 |

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