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  • Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success

  • Building Blocks for a Better Life
  • By: John Wooden, Jay Carty
  • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
  • Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (832 ratings)

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Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success

By: John Wooden, Jay Carty
Narrated by: Sean Runnette
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Legendary college basketball coach John Wooden and Jay Carty know that when it comes down to it, success is an equal opportunity player. Anyone can create it in his or her career, family and beyond. Based on John Wooden’s own method to victory, Coach Wooden’s Pyramid of Success reveals that success is built block by block, where each block is a crucial principle contributing to life-long achievement in every area of life.

Each of these 32 daily readings takes an in-depth look at a single block of the pyramid, which when combined with the other blocks forms the structure of the pyramid of success. Join John Wooden and Jay Carty to discover the building blocks and key values - from confidence to faith - that have brought Coach to the pinnacle of success as a leader, a teacher, and a follower of God.

©2009 John Wooden (P)2010 christianaudio.com

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The ideas and beliefs shared, can be yours.

Thank you. The background of basketball, the remarkable individuals who were mentioned or alluded to, plus the teachings of life skills - a great read.

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Amazing

The leadership ideas and guidance provided will assist in any endeavor chosen especially coaching sports.

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Great Wooden Narrative, Carty ... Good with Reservations

I coach and work with coach development. Coach Wooden's pyramid should be a standard knowledge in all coaches' professional development, and Wooden's narrative is warm, humble, honest, and inviting. Five stars across for the book's treatment of the pyramid. Carty does a fine job integrating a biblical and life-lesson application, but his treatment of "faith" and "success" were highly disappointing. Reason? Carty's Protestant bias of "only Christians in heaven" is a horrible dualistic point to end on after we have built a long narrative about relationship, respect, and humility. I understand the book is from a Christian publisher. I also believe in my Christian faith tradition that who and who is not in heaven is way above any human's "pay grade." I think the book is worth sharing for so many of its good qualities. It would be a shame if that thorny judgement stuck in people's hearts instead of all the rich human and divine wisdom imparted herein.

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Pyramid of Success Rocks!!!

I love the simplicity and practical application of this book written with insights from a very accomplished Coach and Highly Successful person in life. Well Done!!!

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Excellent

Great life learning lessons and examples. Every coach,athlete should read. Should be in everyone’s library.

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Good Old-School Advice from a Great Source

Listen to this if you like:
The Bible and Christian tenets
Old school thinking
UCLA and/or Basketball
Basic tenets of success
Success being a representation of your inner values
Sports-centric examples
Narration that fits the material very well
Solid character-building thoughts
The author having an indisputable and widely acknowledged track record of success

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A lack of concrete examples of tactics you can use
Christian-focused and biblical references
A slow folksy delivery
Thoughts you're fairly certain you've heard before
The concept of character-building as the key to personal success

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Godly and Leadership tools for development

I finished this in less than a week. Great addition to add to your toolbox of development.

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Focus

Great listen and reminder to bring you back to focus! Biblical wisdom with a coaches perspective.

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excellent book

can't go wrong with wooden. the guy is amazing..a bit too much biblical stuff in there for my taste but it's all good stuff anyway.

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Excellet short read

Coach Wooden offers a great book with the pyramid of success speaking truth and life. His principles are easy to understand and he's a true leader, highly recommend this book for anyone.

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