Be Quick - But Don't Hurry: Finding Success in the Teachings of a Lifetime

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Perhaps the least controversial sports honor in living memory was the selection of John Wooden as "Coach of the Century" by ESPN, honoring his ten NCAA basketball championships in twelve years. His UCLA teams won with quickness and 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.

An all-city high school player in Los Angeles, Hill played -- a little -- in three national championships, from 1970 to 1972. Hill was upset at how unequally Wooden treated his starting players, and clashed with Wooden over a variety of social political issues.

Hill went on to a successful career in television, rising to the presidency of CBS Productions. And one day, some twenty-five years after graduating from USLA, he realized that everything he knows about getting the best out of his people he had learned directly from Coach John Wooden.

Be Quick -- But Don't Hurry! tells the story of their renewed friendship while sharing the lessons and secrets that hold the key to managing creativity in the idea-driven economy of the twenty first century. Full of sound advice and warm reminiscence, this is the management book of a lifetime.

What Customers Say About Be Quick - But Don't Hurry: Finding Success in the Teachings of a Lifetime:

it does not matter whether that setting is on the hardwood or the business office, the tips in this book help build a better team. This is a very good book about leadership.

I learned how much I truly learned and how much I missed not keeping him in my life. This book was inspiring, I picked up the phone and called my college coach after 15 years.

Makes an excellent gift to first-time managers. Andy Hill does an excellent job of applying Coach Wooden's winning philosophies to business and personal life.

I was anticipating it to arrive sooner than it did as my daughter needed it for a class but aside from that, the purchase was a great value and served its purpose well for a college class. The book arrived in good condition.

"Make each day your masterpiece." Buy this book, then give it to a friend. The foundational principles taught by coach Wooden are one's that we can all admire. I really enjoyed this book by Andy Hill. Not until he realized his own successes and failures did he fully see all that he learned from coach Wooden.