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

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 thatperforms 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 thenext level, filling the entire book with his straight-shooting personality and keen insighton human nature.

Wooden shares rarely seen preseason letters to his players, revealing how he instilled productive 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 Healso includes previously unpublished analysesfrom former players and managers, includingBill Walton and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.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-first century.