Wooden on Leadership
John Wooden and Steve Jamison
McGraw Hill 2005
10 “Winning is a by-product. Focus on the product: effort.
¶ Before you can lead others you must be able to lead yourself.
¶ Don’t hastily replace the old-fashioned with the new fangled.
¶ Learn to master the four P’s (planning, preparation, practice, and performance.)
¶ Write down the tasks, initiatives and actions that each member of your team needs to do to perform at his or her peak level.
¶ Leadership success begins with a solid foundation
¶ There is no substitute for enthusiasm
¶ Friendship, loyalty and cooperation complete the foundation for leadership.
¶ Leadership starts with self-control
¶ Be a heads-up leader
¶ Do not fear failure or punish initiative
¶ Make sure your team does not come up short in the long run- intentness
¶ Condition your team to love the struggle
¶ Remember that success can take months- or years- to achieve and be undone in minutes.
¶ Never let anyone else define your success
¶ Organizations succeed when they become more than the sum of their players.
¶ Its tough to coach character
¶ Character starts with little things
¶ Character is more than honesty
¶ Beware those who will do anything to win
¶ Lead with love
¶ You don’t have to treat everyone alike or like everyone the same
¶ Seek out opportunities to show you care
¶ Know what time it is
¶ Do not equate professional expertise with your ability to teach it
¶ When you have all the right answers, you will stop asking all the right questions
¶ Remember a good demonstration tops a good description
¶ Control emotion or emotion will control you
¶ Avoid excess. Shoot for moderation.
¶ Instill emotional discipline.
¶ The star of the team is the team.
¶ Insist that members of your team share the “ball”- information, ideas, and more
¶ Go out of your way to praise those “quiet” performers who make things happen.
¶ Seek players who will make the best team rather than the best players
¶ It all starts with the socks
¶ The right rivets are essential
¶ Nourish talent in an environment of perfected details
¶ Sloppiness breeds sloppiness
¶ Remember that a great quarter in basketball or business starts with a great minute
¶ Set the proper tone with meticulous time management technique
¶ Document minutes, days, weeks, months, and so on
¶ Pride is easier to instill with the carrot
¶ Make sure all praise is genuine and appropriate
¶ Do not tolerate internal carping and criticism
¶ Don’t lock yourself into rigid penalties
¶ Each job counts
¶ Encourage, but manage, ambition
¶ Teach your players to expect unexpected opportunity.
¶ Believe in the hidden potential of all.
¶ Success breeds satisfaction, satisfaction breeds failure.
¶ Identify and remove excuses for not getting to the next level.
¶ Stop saying “No” and start saying “How”.
¶ Welcome contrary ideas, but not contrarians.
¶ Identify team goals, then file them away.
¶ Give full respect to each competitor.
¶ Long-term success requires short-term focus.
¶ Always assume adversity
¶ Don’t make “Woe is Me” your fight song
¶ Don’t blame failure on fate
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