Jamison Steve - Wooden on Leadership

WOODEN
ON LEADERSHIP

Coach John Wooden
and Steve Jamison

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Thanks to
Nelland our daughter, Nan Wooden Muehlhausen, and our son, Jim Wooden; and our wonderful grandchildren and great-grandchildren; also to coaches Ward Piggy Lambert, Glenn Curtis, and Earl Warriner; and the many fine players, assistant coaches, our trainer, and student managers who worked so hard with me on our journey in pursuit of success. I also want to wish INCH and MILES the best of luck as they take my Pyramid of Success to children around the world in the twentyfirst century!

Coach John Wooden

For

My parents, Mary Jean and Everett Edstrom, and my sisters, Pat, KRS, Kate, and Kim.

Steve Jamison

And thanks to Jeffrey Krames, whose coaching at crucial moments in the contest was most valuable.

When it comes to building a winning team, John Wooden
wrote the book. Now that book has a name:
Wooden on Leadership. This is his personal blueprint
for achieving success as a leader in business, basketball,
or anything else. After all these years, I have finally
come to learn what made Coach Wooden so special and why.
I also have come to grips with his claim that I am
his slowest learner ever. Wooden on Leadership
tells the WHOLE story.

Bill Walton

Dr. Albert Einstein and Coach John Wooden share a similar brilliance; specifically, both mastered the complicated art of keeping it simple. For Dr. Einstein, the complexities of nuclear fusion were summed up in the elegance of a simple equation: E = MC2. For Coach Wooden, 10 national championships are summed up in the simplicity of an elegant formula: 10 = C + F + U (Conditioning + Fundamentals + Unity).

Simple as that. Only not so simple.

Having seen the equations of each manone a master of science, the other of leadershipyou are no closer to being able to create atomic energy than to winning 10 national championships. To truly comprehend the substance of what their formulas represent is perhaps a lifetimes work. Thus, this book will save you time when it comes to identifying and implementing John Woodens leadership genius in ways that best suit your own organization.

Having worked with Coach Wooden for many years on several books and projects, I hear this question: Whats his secret? How did he do it10 national championships (a record), including seven in a row (a record); 88 consecutive victories (a record); 38 straight tournament playoff wins (a record); four perfect seasons (a record) with only one losing yearhis firstin 41 years of coaching? How did he do it? How did he set all those records?

Here is the answer: Coach Wooden taught good habits. Thats itthats the answer.

John Wooden taught good habits to those under his leadership at Dayton [Kentucky] High School, South Bend Central High School, Indiana State Teachers College, and, of course, UCLA. All along the way he kept teaching good habits until eventually he became one of the best builders of winning teams the world has ever seen.

The exact nature of those good habits and how you can incorporate them with your organization is the subject of Wooden on Leadership: How to Create a Winning Organization.

As John Wooden takes us through the evolution of his education as a leader and the philosophy he developed for creating successful teams and organizations, you will see that, like the formula 10 = C + F + U, it is straightforwarddeceptively so.

Move past the equation, delve deeper, and the text of his good habits curriculum becomes the inculcation of values, knowledge, team spirit, discipline, consistency, standards, ideals, balance, character, details, hard work, love, self-control, loyalty, diligence, and more, including how to put on your socks in the most effective manner.

And thats what makes John Woodens secret so compelling: The qualities and characteristics he possesses and has taught to his teamsthose good habits and how you teach themare available to everyone.

There is no patent pending, copyright law, or No Trespassing sign that prohibits use of his leadership secrets. In the vernacular of the Internet, its open source code or, as he writes so directly, All you need is the will to look hard enough within.