With tonight's NCAA Basketball Game Championship tonight, I wanted to share Coach John Wooden's 'Lessons in Leadership' and 'Success Pyramid'.
First a bit about Coach Wooden: he is the first athlete to be honored in the basketball Hall of Fame as both player and coach; he was named Player of the Year at Purdue University in 1932; He went on to coach the Univ. of California at Los Angeles to 10 national championships in 12 years, including a men's Division I record 88-game winning streak.
Coach Wooden’s 12 Lessons in Leadership:
- Good values attract good people
- Love is the most powerful four-letter word
- Call yourself a teacher
- Emotion is your enemy
- It takes 10 hands to make a basket
- Little things make big things happen
- Make each day your masterpiece
- The carrot is mightier than the stick
- Make greatness attainable by all
- Seek significant change
- Don’t look at the scoreboard
- Adversity is your asset
Please check out Coach Wooden's 'Success Pyramid' below and please click on the link for a larger view:
Good Leading and Succeeding. Reader Feedback, please click the ‘comments’ to add your feedback on Coach Wooden's personal and professional development. Shaun Priest aka CloserQ. Have fantastic day.
Lastly, as a graduate of a Big East School (Providence College), Go UCONN HUSKIES!!!
Comments
Thanks for posting John Wooden's pyramid. I have been surprised lately at how many people younger than me (47) are not familiar with Coach Wooden's Pyramid. It has been a foundation for my personal and work life since I started College. Here's a quick overview of how I adapted this pyramid to my life (or should I say.. how I've directed my life in accordance with Coach Wooden's pyramid). The cornerstones are Work Hard and Love what you do. In John's terminology that is "Industriousness" and "Enthusiasm"... The top of my personal pyramid is "EVERYTHING you do matters... so, do your best at everything you do all the time." His terminology for that one is Competitive Greatness.
HOWEVER... None of this matters if you are not rounding all of this off with FAITH. Be sure to allow time in your day to listen for guidance from Above and to be open minded enough to follow that guidance.
Recap... Jeff's personal version of Coach Wooden's pyramid is 1)work hard 2)Do what you love so you can be enthusiastic and passionate about what you do 3)Do everything you do like it matters.. because it does. 4)last but most important... Let God lead.