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The Gold Standard in Leadership. Coach Wooden shares strategies for enduring leadership and building successful teams with a foundation.

Reviewed in the United States on November 2, 2023

This is for leaders who want to build others in any discipline. It is old school and fundamentally sound. It is a roadmap for continued excellence in sport or any organization with people.

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Good lessons but a little dry

Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2020

John Wooden is a legendary coach and has lots of great tips for finding success, whether you lead a sports team or team at your company. He stresses attention to detail, upholding high expectations, and being firm but fair, to name a few. The most counterintuitive suggestion, which now makes sense, is that you should not treat everyone the same. People are different inherently, but also, each member of the team has earned different levels of freedom. He even acknowledges that “superstars” may require some accommodations; it’s just a fact of life.

My main gripe is that it was a bit hard to get through the book. It reads like a text book and I was hoping to hear more in-depth stories about his teams at UCLA. Coming off of the Disney and Nike books, this was quite noticeable. The points are also strikingly similar to the Bill Walsh book, which isn’t a huge surprise given the author is the same. If I had read them in the opposite order I may have preferred this one, but probably not because I’m a 49ers fan and not a UCLA fan.

Ultimately, I’m glad Wooden took the time to share all this in the book and that I read it.

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Good lessons but a little dry

Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2020

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I agonized to give this good three-stars. John Wooden is one of the greatest ...

Reviewed in the United States on May 10, 2015

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I agonized to give this good three-stars. John Wooden is one of the greatest men to ever live. I loved to hear him speak. But Steve Jameson's writing style is unbearable to read. I wouldn't wait to finish this book and be done. I found myself almost falling to sleep, but this is about John Wooden. I also found myself counting the number of paging until I was done.

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Old North State

Somewhat interesting, but greatly redundant

Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2014

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This great coach has written (or ghost written) or written with a co-author several books about how he achieved his success. This was a more recent one, but not the best one or the most readable one. It was divided into so many sections that redundancy was inevitable.

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pdgutie

not basketball, but leadership

Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2016

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John wooden is rap yes abd admired as a coach. I Just did not figure out how he developed his plans and methods. did he get the ideas from someone else?

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Deborah L. Large

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Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2019

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Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2015

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Great book from a truly great leader and person. This shows that greatness in grounded in good morals. Coach leads with his passion for people. The center of success is great people.

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