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Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court
John Wooden, Steve Jamison · back to the book
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Hide books by the same authorLeading with the Heart: Coach K's Successful Strategies for Basketball, Business, and Life
Donald T. Phillips, Mike Krzyzewski · 320 pages
My Personal Best : Life Lessons from an All-American Journey
John Wooden, Steve Jamison · 192 pages
"In this book, basketball coach John Wooden reveals the educational journey he took throughout his legendary life, from his earliest days on a small Indiana farm to the glory of his historic record-setting UCLA dynasty. Throughout My Personal Best, Coach Wooden introduces us to the men and women who shaped him and the many important life lessons they taught along the way."--Jacket.
Sacred Hoops: Spiritual Lessons of a Hardwood Warrior
Phil Jackson, Hugh Delehanty · 240 pages
Wooden on Leadership: How to Create a Winning Organizaion
John Wooden · 256 pages
"Team spirit, loyalty, enthusiasm, determination...Acquire and keep these traits and success should follow." --Coach John WoodenJohn Wooden is without question one of the most respected and honored sports coaches in our nations history. But it wasn't winning games that drove him; it was ensuring that, regardless of the final score, his players always put forth their utmost effort and performed to
Quiet Leadership: Winning Hearts, Minds and Matches
Carlo Ancelotti · 256 pages
The Last Season: A Team In Search of Its Soul
Phil Jackson, Michael Arkush · 304 pages
Winners: And How They Succeed
Alastair Campbell · 407 pages
The Carolina Way: Leadership Lessons from a Life in Coaching
Dean Smith, Gerald D. Bell, John Kilgo · 337 pages
Swing Your Sword: Leading the Charge in Football and Life
Mike Leach, Bruce Feldman, Peter Berg
Principles
Ray Dalio · 592 pages
Bridgewater Associates founder, Ray Dalio, offers a five-step process to getting what you want out of life, which involves systemizing everything to run like a machine — which can then be fine-tuned.
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Haruki Murakami · 179 pages
Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable
Tim S. Grover · 244 pages
To be unstoppable, you keep going when everyone else is giving up; you thrive under pressure; you never let your emotions make you weak. Grover details the essential traits shared by the most intense competitors and achievers in sports, business, and all walks of life. He shows you how even the best get better-- and how you can too.
A Season on the Brink: A Year with Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers
John Feinstein · 324 pages
Michael Jordan: The Life
Roland Lazenby · 708 pages
Traces the life of one of the most legendary basketball players in the history of the sport, drawing upon interviews with Jordan's friends, family, and teammates, and following his career from college to the NBA.
Managing My Life: My Autobiography
Alex Ferguson · 531 pages
This is the autobiography of Alex Ferguson - he runs the Manchester United Football players with a rod of iron, but is respected for his managerial style and for the way he cares for the welfare of his players.
Pep Guardiola: Another Way of Winning: The Biography
Guillem Balague
Sum It Up: A Thousand and Ninety-Eight Victories, a Couple of Irrelevant Losses, and a Life in Perspective
Pat Summitt, Sally Jenkins · 554 pages
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Sheryl Sandberg · 240 pages
Thirty years after women became 50 percent of the college graduates in the United States, men still hold the vast majority of leadership positions in government and industry. This means that women's voices are still not heard equally in the decisions that most affect our lives. In Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg examines why women's progress in achieving leadership roles has stalled, explains the root ca
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
Chris Hadfield · 309 pages
"Chris Hadfield was selected by the Canadian Space Agency to be an astronaut in 1992. He was Chief of Robotics at the Johnson Space Center in Houston from 2003-2006, and in March 2013, he became the first Canadian Commander of the International Space Station where, while conducting a record-setting number of scientific experiments and overseeing an emergency spacewalk, he gained worldwide acclaim
The Jordan Rules: The Inside Story of Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls
Sam Smith · 333 pages
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
Carol S. Dweck · 277 pages
Mindset is one of those rare books that can help you make positive changes in your life and at the same time see the world in a new way.A leading expert in motivation and personality psychology, Carol Dweck has discovered in more than twenty years of research that our mindset is not a minor personality quirk: it creates our whole mental world. It explains how we become optimistic or pessimistic. I
What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence
Stephen A. Schwarzman · 400 pages