Perhaps the least controversial sports honor in living memory was the selection of John Wooden as “Coach of the Century” by ESPN. Wooden presided over college sports’ most famous dynasty, winning 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 summarised in his famed Pyramid of Success. (printed chart included)
An all-city high school player in Los Angeles, Andrew Hill played (a little) in three national championships, from 1970 to 1972. At that time, Hill was upset at how unequally Wooden treated his starting players, and clashed with Wooden over a variety of social and 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 UCLA, he realised 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 audiobook of a lifetime.
Read by the author with an introduction by John Wooden
About the Authors
Andrew Hill spent five and half years as President of CBS Productions and was, until recently, President of Programming for the Channel One Network. He lives in Los Angeles, California.
John Wooden is one of two men to be inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame twice – as a player and as a coach. He was named Coach of the Century by ESPN, California Father of the Year in 1964, Sports Illustrated’s Sportsman of the Year in 1973, and AYA Humanitarian of the Year in 1995. He lives in Encino, California.
Be Quick – But Don’T Hurry! Buy on-line at: www.future-world.com/cgi-bin/catalog/46686/1508
By Andrew Hill with John Wooden ABRIDGED
Contents: 4 CD’s
Total Running Time: 270 minutes
Buy on-line at: www.future-world.com/cgi-bin/catalog/46686/1508 or at amazon.co.uk.
March 21st, 2010 at 22:24
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