The Essential Wooden: A Lifetime of Lessons on Leaders and Leadership - John Wooden, Steve Jamison

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

Buch | Hardcover
208 Seiten
2007
McGraw-Hill Professional (Verlag)
978-0-07-148435-0 (ISBN)
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Presents advice on what it takes to achieve leadership in an organization. This book offers you 200 key lessons - including Wooden's famous Pyramid of Success - on how to inspire championship performance in their staff. It covers topics such as Values, Victory, and Success; Preparation and Training of a Team; and Maintaining the Competitive Edge.
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 Healso includes previously unpublished analysesfrom former players and managers, includingBill Walton and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.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.

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.

Why Leadership is Teaching

Character is More than the Truth

Maximize Your Assets

The Key to Enthusiasm

Give Credit to Lesser Roles

Deliver or Depart

Why Ego can be a Good Thing

Know the Levers of Success

How to Create Trust

Taking team to next level

Don’t mistake activity for achievement

Don’t be a Pushover

Do Your Best and You’ll Never Lose

Take Pride in Efficiency

Make 2 + 2 = 6

Confidence comes from Confidence

Create No Second Class citizens

Instead of the East Way

The First Law of Communicating

The Four (4) Clues to Success

Help Overcome Fear of Mistakes

The Sound of Enthusiasm

Why onlookers are onlookers

Don’t Kick the Wheels

Criticize in Good Times, Command in Bad

Be Quick, but Don’t Worry

The Leader’s Toolkit

Superstars and Unsung Heroes

Disappointment vs. Misery

Why making someone feel good about what they’ve done is more productive than making someone feel bad about what they should have done

Use More Carrots than Sticks

The 3 E’s: ego, efforts, excellence!

Erscheint lt. Verlag 16.1.2007
Zusatzinfo 0 Illustrations
Sprache englisch
Maße 130 x 213 mm
Gewicht 352 g
Themenwelt Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management Unternehmensführung / Management
ISBN-10 0-07-148435-3 / 0071484353
ISBN-13 978-0-07-148435-0 / 9780071484350
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