Pyramid of Success

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Pyramid of Success

• Coach John Wooden's last twelve years as
  coach, UCLA won ten National Collegiate Athletic
  Association (NCAA) championships.

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Industriousness

• The work that you have to do, there is no
  substitute for hard work.

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Friendship

• Two characteristics for a leader to possess
  and instill in team members are respect and
  camaraderie. These are noteworthy in true
  friendship as it pertains to Leadership.

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Loyalty

• You must have the courage to be loyal to those
  who you lead. It starts by being loyal to
  yourself, your standards, your system, your
  values. Compromising them is especially under
  the banner of expediency is disloyalty personal
  betrayal of yourself.

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Cooperation

• Cooperation the sharing of ideas, information,
  creativity, responsibilities and tasks is a
  priority of good leadership.

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Enthusiasm

• You must love what you do your heart must be
  in it. Without enthusiasm you cannot work to your
  fullest ability and potential. You must have
  enthusiasm if youre a leader or wish to become
  a leader.

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Self Control

• Getting to the top even once is arduous.
  Staying there, many say, is even more difficult.
  To do either requires self-control. For every
  contrived peak you create, there is a subsequent
  valley.

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Alertness

• As you strive to achieve your personal best,
  Alertness will make your tasks much easier. You
  will see it coming before the competitor does.
  Be observing quickly to spot a weakness and
  correct it Organizations whos leader does not
  exhibit alertness in saying I didnt see it
  coming.

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Initiative

• Truly believe that the failure to act lack
  of initiative is often the greatest failure of
  all. A mistake may occur, but if it is not
  because of carelessness or sloppiness.. or rash
  judgment it must be accepted as part of your
  journey to success.

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Intentness

• The ability to resist temptation and stay on
  the course, to concentrate on your objective with
  determination and resolve. Impatience is wanting
  too much too soon. Intentness doesnt involve
  wanting something. It involves doing something
  for a very long time.

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Condition

• You cant attain proper physical condition
  unless it is preceded by mental and moral
  condition. How does one attain moral condition?
  ..Practice moderation and balance in all that you
  do.

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Skill

• Skill means being able to execute all of your
  job not just part of it. It is my opinion that
  the greatest leaders are life long learners The
  most effective leaders are those who realize its
  what you learn after you know its all that
  counts most.

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Team Spirit

• Team spirit means you are willing to sacrifice
  personal considerations for the welfare of
  allindividual effort is made to contribute to
  the improvement of the team what ever your team
  is sports, business, family or community.

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Poise

• ..Not being thrown off stride in how you
  behave or what you believe because of outside
  events. Poise is a gift you give yourself when
  you acquire the blocks of the pyramid- those in
  the preceding three tiers.

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Confidence

• .. Confidence requires respect and not fearing
  the person who has authority. Confidence must be
  monitored so it does spoil or rot and turn into
  arrogance.

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Competitive Greatness

• If your in a position of leadership, you must
  teach your team to love the struggle only then
  will you, and they find great competitive
  greatness the only thing to fear is the
  unwillingness to give that 100 percent of the
  highest level of your ability.

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Bibliography

• http//www.coachjohnwooden.com
• Be Quick But Don't Hurry (Hardcover) authors
  Andrew Hill and John Wooden