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also includes previously unpublished analyses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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