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 Healso includes previously unpublished analysesfrom former players and managers, includingBill Walton and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.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.
Table of Contents:
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!
