In social studies, pyramid charts are frequently used to show the class stratification of a particular society usually showing the peasants at the bottom and the monarch at the top. Slideshare uses cookies to improve functionality and performance, and to provide you with relevant advertising.
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To learn more, view our Privacy Policy. Competitive Greatness is having a real love for the hard battle knowing it offers the opportunity to be at your best when your best is required. The great competitors I have played for and against, taught and admired all shared a joy in the struggle itself - the journey, the contest and competition. Each of these 32 daily readings takes an in-depth look at a single block of the pyramid. When these blocks are combined they form the structure of the pyramid of success.
Discover the building blocks and key values, from confidence to faith, that brought Coach to the pinnacle of success as a leader, a teacher and a follower of God.
What John Wooden accomplished as basketball coach at UCLA will never be repeated—eighty-eight victories in a row, ten national championships—but what makes his legacy even more amazing is how he did it: with honor, integrity and grace. The result is an inspiring motivational biography about a great hero of basketball and one of the most amazing leaders in history.
How to Be Like Coach Wooden is the next dynamic book in the How to Be Like "character biography" series, which focuses on drawing out important lessons from the lives of great men and women. In this book, readers will learn from Coach Wooden, a beacon of honesty, goodness and faith. Wooden cared about winning in basketball, but he cared more about winning in life.
This unique tutorial introduces you to his core fundamentals of success as a leader and reinforces them with examples, exercises, quizzes, and quotations. His advanced leadership transformed the San Francisco 49ers from the worst franchise in sports to a legendary dynasty. I started teaching about shoes and socks early in my career, and I saw that it really did cut down on blisters during the season.
That little detail gave us an edge. Now Pat Williams takes Coach Wooden's lesson, along with stories of people whose lives have exemplified the importance of little things done well, and shows readers how the small things one does or doesn't do drastically affect one's integrity, reputation, health, career, faith, and success. People who want to do their best in life, family, work, and faith will benefit from this entertaining and inspirational book. Biro presents an accessible system for leadership development.
With anecdotes, excercises, and Wooden's philosophy, the author captures the essence of Wooden's Pyramid of Success and the secrets behind each of the pyramid's building blocks. This book of 60 daily readings is the result of one-on-one conversations between basketball's legendary coach and teacher, John Wooden, and Jay Carty, former Laker and one time Wooden assistant.
Each of the two page readings contains life wisdom from the Coach, application and reflection from Jay and a daily Scripture reading and prayer. Be Quick, But Don't Hurry presents the team-building management secrets of the greatest coach of the twentieth century, cloaked in the heartwarming tale of the reluctant protege who learned those secrets in spite of himself. His UCLA teams won with great centers and with small lineups, with superstars and with team effort, always with quickness, always with class.
Wooden was a teacher first and foremost, and his lessons -- taught on the basketball court, but applicable throughout one's life -- are summarized in his famed Pyramid of Success. Andrew Hill was one of the lucky young men who got to learn from Wooden in his favored classroom -- though that is hardly how Hill would have described it at the time. An all-city high school player in Los Angeles, Hill played -- a little -- on three national champions, from to Hill was left embittered by his experience at UCLA; he was upset at how unequally Wooden treated his starting players and his substitutes.
Hill went on to a successful career in television, rising to the presidency of CBS Productions, where he was responsible for the success of such popular series as Touched by an Angel and Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. Hill's job required him to manage many creative people, with the egos and insecurities that usually go along with such talents. And one day, some twenty-five years after he graduated, he was hit with the realization that everything he knew about getting the best out of people he had learned directly from Coach John Wooden.
With no small trepidation, Hill picked up the phone to call and thank his old coach and unexpected mentor. To his surprise, Wooden greeted him warmly and enthusiastically. A strong friendship, sealed in frequent visits and conversations, ensued, and endures. Be Quick -- But Don't Hurry! But it also shares the lessons and secrets that Hill learned from Coach Wooden, which hold the key to managing creatively in the idea-driven economy of the twenty-first century. Among those lessons are: -The team with the best players almost always wins -Be quick, but don't hurry: there is never enough time to be sure and if you are sure, you're probably too late , but you must always keep your balance -Failing to prepare is preparing to fail -The team that makes the most mistakes A provocative and revelatory new biography of the legendary UCLA coach John Wooden, by one of America's top college basketball writers No college basketball coach has ever dominated the sport like John Wooden.
His UCLA teams reached unprecedented heights in the s and '70s capped by a run of ten NCAA championships in twelve seasons and an eighty-eight-game winning streak, records that stand to this day.
Wooden also became a renowned motivational speaker and writer, revered for his "Pyramid of Success. Davis shows how hard Wooden strove for success, from his All-American playing days at Purdue through his early years as a high school and college coach to the glory days at UCLA, only to discover that reaching new heights brought new burdens and frustrations.
Davis also reveals how at the pinnacle of his career Wooden found himself on questionable ground with alumni, referees, assistants, and even some of his players. His was a life not only of lessons taught, but also of lessons learned. Woven into the story as well are the players who powered Wooden's championship teams — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bill Walton, Walt Hazzard, and others — many of whom speak frankly about their coach.
The portrait that emerges from Davis's remarkable biography is of a man in full, whose life story still resonates today. The former UCLA men's basketball coach reflects on his career, his life outside of basketball, and the impact some of his top players had on the NBA.
Based on seven principles given to Coach Wooden by his father, this book helps the reader discover how to be successful and a person of character and integrity. Yet decades after he retired and now after his passing, his wisdom capsulized so clearly in his famous Pyramid of Success continues to guide new generations of athletes, coaches, and people of all walks of life. Their stories can challenge and change your life, too.
Coach Wooden appreciated the tributes and the honor of being called the greatest coach ever, but felt uncomfortable with the title.
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