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The Essential Wooden

By John Wooden & Steve Jamison

Complete blue-and-white cover with Wooden’s portrait and the names John Wooden and Steve Jamison legible.

ABOUT THE BOOK

A Lifetime of Lessons on Leaders and Leadership. A collection of Wooden's thinking about leading people, preparing a team, and sustaining standards.

Written with Steve Jamison, the book is a way to explore Wooden’s leadership ideas at greater length than a quotation or diagram allows.

A CLOSER LOOK

The story behind it.

A Lifetime of Lessons on Leaders and Leadership. A collection of Wooden's thinking about leading people, preparing a team, and sustaining standards.

The coach and the collaborator

John Wooden and Steve Jamison gather lessons about teaching, preparation, standards, and leadership. Basketball supplies the setting for principles expressed through everyday behavior.

Preparation before the result

Wooden’s account places attention on the work that precedes competition. The distinction between preparation and the scoreboard also structures the pyramid and the selected talk.

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Introductions are grounded in the sources below. Collection notes and reading prompts provide an editorial starting point; personal opinions are identified in the collection’s content.

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