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

The Essential Wooden—more leadership lessons from the Wooden playbook

The Essential Woodenis the ultimate collection of Wooden's opinions and observations on achieving exceptional leadership in any organization, with 200 invaluable lessons for inspiring championship performance.

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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 He also includes previously unpublished analyses from former players and managers, including Bill Walton and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.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 Woodendistills a lifetime of learning into the leadership playbook for the twenty-first century.

Audience
adult
Length
short · 192 pages

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