Be Quick – But Don’t Hurry: Finding Success in the Teachings of a Lifetime Audiobook (Free)
- Andrew Hill
- 4 h 30 min
- Simon & Schuster Audio
- 2001-03-01
Summary:
STOP WASTING TIME, But Don’t Hurry presents the team-building management secrets of the best coach from the twentieth hundred years, cloaked in the heartwarming story of the hesitant protege who learned those secrets regardless of himself.
Perhaps the least controversial sports honor in living memory was the selection of John Wooden simply because ‘Coach from the Century’ by ESPN, honoring his ten NCAA basketball championships within a twelve-year stretch. His UCLA groups received with great centers and with small lineups, with about Be Quick – But Don’t Hurry: Finding Achievement in the Teachings of a Lifetime superstars and with team effort, constantly with quickness, usually with course. Wooden was a instructor first and foremost, and his lessons — taught on the basketball court, but applicable throughout one’s lifestyle — are summarized in his famed Pyramid of Achievement.
Andrew Hill was among the lucky young men who got to study from Wooden in his favored class room — though that’s hardly how Hill could have described it at that time. An all-city high school player in LA, Hill performed — just a little — on three national champions, from 1970 to 1972. Hill was remaining embittered by his encounter at UCLA; he was annoyed at how unequally Wooden treated his starting players and his substitutes.
Hill continued to an effective career in television, rising to the presidency of CBS Productions, where he was in charge of the success of such popular series mainly because Touched by an Angel and Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. Hill’s job required him to manage many creative people, using the egos and insecurities that usually go along with such talents. And 1 day, some twenty-five years after he graduated, he was hit with the realization that everything he knew about obtaining the greatest out of individuals he had learned directly from Trainer John Wooden.
With no small trepidation, Hill picked up the telephone to contact and thank his old coach and unexpected coach. To his surprise, Wooden greeted him warmly and enthusiastically. A solid friendship, covered in frequent visits and conversations, ensued, and endures.
STOP WASTING TIME — But Don’t Be quick! tells the storyplot of that a friendly relationship. But it also stocks the lessons and secrets that Hill learned from Coach Wooden, which contain the crucial to managing artistically in the idea-driven economy of the twenty-first century. Among those lessons are:
-The team with the best players more often than not wins
-Be quick, but don’t hurry: there is never enough time to be sure (and if you’re sure, you’re probably too late), nevertheless, you should always keep your balance
-Failing to get ready is getting ready to fail
-The team that makes the most errors…wins!
Full of audio information and warm reminiscence, Be Quick — But Don’t Hurry! is the administration book of a lifetime.
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