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INTRODUCTION
What follows are pages or excerpts of pages from notebooks I used
through the years in my teaching—notes, observations, reminders,
suggestions, and lists of relevant goals and how to achieve them.
They include rules for behavior, preseason priorities, minute-by-
minute practice schedules, awards, varsity captains, and more. I’ve
tried to select material that has application to leadership beyond just
basketball or sports and to suggest how it might apply to your own
organization.
I don’t believe there is a “one size fits all” methodology or phi-
losophy when it comes to effective leadership and winning organi-
zations. Nevertheless, in sharing these pages from my notebooks
along with the Pyramid of Success and my Lessons in Leadership,
I hope you find some ideas that can be successfully incorporated
into your own approach to building a winning organization—a
team that knows how to succeed in a competitive environment.
A good leader never stops learning. A great leader never stops
teaching. When you’ve finished reading this book, I sincerely hope
you’ll have found information that will help you become an even
better teacher and leader, one capable of building an organization
characterized by Competitive Greatness.
What follows are some relevant pages and notes I kept to help
me achieve that goal with the UCLA Bruins basketball team.
DIAGRAMS DON’T WIN CHAMPIONSHIPS
In sports it is easy to become consumed with diagrams of plays, Xs
and Os, patterns, and systems of offense and defense. To a large de-
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