Brian D. Biro - Beyond Success: The 15 Secrets to Effective Leadership and Life Based on Legendary Coach John Woodens Pyramid of Success

Brian Biros book brings to life the timeless philosophies of John Woodensomething all of us need to focus on. I have been blessed to know Coach Wooden for twenty-five years. This fine book allows everyone else the privilege of learning how to apply a true genius way of life to their everyday experiences. A terrific read from a hard-working author.

BILL WALTON, NCAA and Naismith Memorial Basketball Halls of Fame, Commentator, CBS Sports

Brian Biro has made tangible the intangibles of defining the characteristics of leadership. One cant read this book and not immediately become a more successful participant in all areas of lifeand, more important, a better human being. Its a great book.

ROGER STAUBACH, Pro Football Hall of Fame; CEO, The Staubach Company

As a young assistant under John Wooden I learned lessons about real success that changed my life. Now, a new master, Brian Biro, builds upon those same timeless principles to guide you Beyond Success so you can win the biggest championship of alla life of purpose and joy. A master game plan for a truly winning life.

DENNY CRUM, Head Basketball Coach, University of Louisville

Beyond Success reflects the humanity, kindness, and tremendous sense of humor that has characterized the leadership and life of Coach John Wooden, building upon the foundational principles of a master. This book is great.

JIM HARRICK, Head Basketball Coach, University of California, Los Angeles, 1995 NCAA Championship Title

In the new millennium, one key resource is emerging as the critical ingredient needed for each of us to become winnershaving a great coach. From sports we know Lombardi, Wooden, AuerbachBut what you and I really need is an empowering coach from the playing fields of entrepreneurship and personal productivitya coach who has the vision, awareness, and commitment to have us play full-out to achieve our own championship performance. After reading Beyond Success, I have a new coach: Brian Biro.

JOHN MILTON FOGG, Editor-in-Chief, Upline magazine; author of The Greatest Networker in the World

Brian Biros book eloquently captures the spirit of the Pyramid of Success that has been as synonymous with Coach John Wooden as has been the ten NCAA basketball championships that his Bruin teams won in an extraordinary twelve-year span. While the media attention that accompanied Coach Woodens stay at the top of the college basketball world made him a familiar figure to all sports fans, it was, and is, his Pyramid of Success that truly brings his greatness to everyone regardless of their interest in college sports. This book brings to life the real essence of Coach John Wooden and the part of his greatness that has more relevance and more meaning for every reader than the thrill of a victory on the basketball court.

CHARLES E. YOUNG, Former Chancellor, University of California, Los Angeles

Beyond Success is a fascinating, in-depth study of Coach John Woodens leadership techniques. If they work only half as well for you as they worked for Coach Wooden, you and the people you lead will be fabulously successful.

DR. TONY ALESSANDRA, author of The Art of Managing

An interesting and insightful look at the philosophies of a legend. Brian Biro is a wonderful communicator.

R. M. GESCHWIND, president and CEO, Southwestern Bell Yellow Pages

At last, here is a book that marries leadership, management, and teams. Brian Biro has punctuated Coach Woodens principles with real-life stories to which every leader, manager, and team player can relate. The business world thanks you.

JUDY HENRICHS, president, The MatCon Affiliates

I found myself underlining so many sentences and starring so many paragraphs that before I was halfway through, I knew Beyond Success would take its place beside the few books I consider to be treasures. If you recognize the value of ideas, you wont put this book down.

DARYL KOLLMAN, CEO and chairman, Cell Tech

An exciting, stimulating, and practical approachBrian Biro presents an integrated and supremely effective system for leadership development that begins where it muston the personal level.

BARRY Z. POSNER, Ph.D., professor and managing partner, Executive Development Center, Santa Clara University; Co-author, The Leadership Challenge and Credibility

An inspiring and uplifting guide to personal effectiveness by an inspiring and uplifting human being. Brian Biro is a leader for our time.

JOHN ROBBINS, author of Diet for a New America and May All Be Fed

Great stories from great championsThe watchword for the twenty-first century is building championship teams, and Brians model of the Wooden Blocks is what I have chosen to follow.

JAN RUHE, author of Pour Yourself a Cup of Ambition; editor-in-ehief, PowerNews; Diamond Sales Director, Discovery Toys

Thank you Brian, for sharing with me your 15 Secrets, which I can use to enrich my life and the lives of people around me. Your service-oriented spirit flows through each insightful secret. You have inspired me to move out of my comfort zone to work harder to serve those around me better. I look forward to experiencing some new adventures in life as I practice your secrets. Everyone should put Beyond Success on their must-read list.

GLEN DAVIDSON, president, Concord Communications, Inc.

On lifes balance sheet, the people who work with you, day in and day out, to create the superior service or product you deliver to your customers are one of your most highly valued assets. No one explains this better than Brian Biro, a leader of leaders who uncovers the greatness in everyone he touches. Anyone who cares at all about real successhonoring and advancing the innate talents and unlimited potential of othersmust read this book.

JOHN McCORMICK, CEO, Visible Changes; author, Self-Made in America

Beyond Success is one of those rare books that has actually stood up, walked about, spoke, and taken an active role in shaping my life. Brian Biro is one of those rare teachers who has deeply and permanently altered how I see myself and my world. Brian and Beyond Success have touched me and changed me for the better foreverand I bet they will you, too.

JOHN DAVID MANN, editor, Upline magazine

Brian Biro is the leader for a new generation of individuals and organizations who know that the secrets of success lie in what the team creates together.

MARTA KOLLMAN, president, Cell Tech