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.

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You'll be shocked to read the first 1/4 of the book, where the former player reveals all the bad things about Coach Wooden. There is absolutely no humility on the part of the author, which was one of the keys to Wooden's success.There may be some lessons to be learned from some of the examples given in the book, but how Wooden ever agreed to be a part of this book will be beyond anyone who reads the first 60 pages. Hill steals the basic Pyramid of Success foundations that Wooden taught and applies them to business management. It's difficult to listen to the valid points that are made when the author has shown himself to have so little character. At one point the author even goes out of his way to write, "It is important for you to have a clear picture of this seemingly simple man who many have made out to be almost saintly. John Wooden is not a saint."What, then, is the purpose of this book. This book is not a true tribute to Coach Wooden--instead an egotistical former player slams the coach repeatedly, then steals the coach's keys to success to make money in this management advice book. Hill could have handled it with much more class and self-introspection because in most of the examples given the immature, know-it-all Hill was the one causing his own bad situations.

You think Wooden wasn't perfect. This isn't a loving tribute to a favorite coach--this is an initial hatchet job on the coach with analysis throughout as to the validity of the coach's philosophy. Now what about yourself--can't you step forward and admit your own failings or put yourself down instead of insisting on condemning him. The author was a nothing basketball player on Wooden's team who barely ever played, but he sets himself up as one of the few people in history to ever "play" on three national championship teams (though almost all of it was sitting on the bench and fighting with the coach). Hill was the anti-war rebel who fought team rules and here he portrays the coach as a backwards right-winger who didn't care for anyone but the top starters. Yes, in the end Hill reconciles with Wooden and says "thanks" to him--but that's as successful TV executive who still acts like he knows more than the coach.

So even though the author has a great dislike of the coach (at one point even calling it "hate"), as an adult Hill had an "epiphany" where he could use everything the coach taught him and turn it into a book.It's disgustingly ego-centric. He went on to work for CBS--no surprise since the attitude of pretty much everyone who ever worked there is that of an egotistical jerk. At one point near then end he again slams Wooden saying, "I've found it emotionally cathartic to learn that one person who knows that John Wooden was not perfect is Coach himself." OKAY, HILL--we get it already. The problem when the author played for UCLA wasn't the coach, it was the 20-year-old disrespectful jerk who uses faint praise in this book to get the coach back thirty years later.

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

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

The book arrived in good condition. 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.