Issue No. 75 of Your Weekly Staff Meeting features old guys wisdom and Bucket #4 (The Drucker Bucket) in my forthcoming book. As Peter Drucker was to management, John Wooden was to coaching. A master at mentoring his teams during his 40-year coaching career from 1948 to 1975, Wooden’s UCLA basketball teams won 10 NCAA national championships, including seven in a row! ESPN named him the Greatest Coach of the 20th Century. He preached team spirit. “The star of the team is the team. ‘We’ supercedes ‘me’.” And this reminder: to review the 75 books I’ve recommended in back issues, visit the archives here.
Coach John Wooden on Leadership
OK. Football season is officially over, but winter isn’t—so don’t vacate the couch yet. Basketball is heating up big-time. This past week, Shaq left Miami for Phoenix. Bobby Knight threw in the towel (not the chair). And the Final Four is just 54 days away in San Antonio.
Recently the Los Angeles Times asked sports readers, “If you could have dinner with a local sports personality, whom would you choose?” Tiger Woods, Kobe Bryant, Tom Lasorda, USC football coach Peter Carroll, Serena and Venus Williams, David Beckham and Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully all made the Top 10 list. But it was former UCLA basketball coach John Wooden, now 97, who received the most votes!
To glean the wisdom of the ages from Coach Wooden, enjoy reading Coach Wooden One-on-One. Co-authored by Wooden and Jay Carty (read Jay’s hilarious account of his brief Lakers career), the book includes 60 one-page insights from the Coach, with 60 one-page color commentaries by Carty.
It’s the perfect book for leaders-on-the-run, who need just the right snippet for a staff meeting, motivational talk or article. Topics include: First Things First, Powerful Principles, Overcoming Adversity, Everyone’s a Teacher, Buts and Promises, Going Beyond Good Intentions, After You’ve Learned It All, Avoiding Burnout, and Making the Right Mistakes. The book includes Wooden’s famed Pyramid of Success chart. You can also download the chart and his “12 Lessons in Leadership” on the Coach’s website.
To order from Amazon, click on the title for Coach Wooden One-on-One: Inspiring Conversations on Purpose, Passion and the Pursuit of Success, by Coach John Wooden and Jay Carty.
Your Weekly Staff Meeting Questions:
#1. Coach Wooden says “Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.” Do you agree?
#2. Describe your physical exercise regimen. Now describe the mental exercise routine you use in your journey to become a life-long learner.
Bucket #4 of 20: The Drucker Bucket - Insights from Mastering the Management Buckets: 20 Critical Competencies for Leading Your Business or Nonprofit
For the next 20 weeks, I’m featuring one of the 20 buckets (core competencies) from my forthcoming book, Mastering the Management Buckets (pre-order now for April delivery). Here’s an insight from Bucket #4: The Drucker Bucket.
The Drucker Bucket honors Peter Drucker, the father of modern management, who was welcomed to his heavenly home in 2005, just a few days shy of his 96th birthday. His seminal book, Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices, runs 839 pages. Here’s the Drucker Bucket core competency:
“We are privileged to be leaders and managers and we steward that privilege by being lifelong learners and practitioners in the art of management. We don’t just give lip service to management—we are disciplined students of great leadership and management thinkers like Peter Drucker, Ken Blanchard and others.”
I encourage you to read at least one book by Peter Drucker every year. If you’re in management, why would you not want to learn from the management guru? To dip your toe in the Drucker Bucket, click on this book title and order from Amazon: The Daily Drucker: 366 Days of Insight and Motivation for Getting the Right Things Done.
Bob Buford, who graciously wrote the foreword to my forthcoming book, mentions Drucker in the foreword, “Peter always said, ‘The purpose of management is not to make the Church more businesslike, but more Church-like.”
Introduce your team members to the 20 critical core competencies every business and nonprofit must master. Attend our Management Buckets Workshop Experience. Here are some of our 2008 dates:
• Feb. 14-15, 2008 (Seattle) - Management Buckets Workshop Experience, hosted by Agros International (email John Pearson Associates for more info)
• April 21, 2008 (Dallas) – Mastering the Management Buckets all-day workshop at Christian Management Association’s annual conference
• May 27, 2008 (Dallas) – Mastering the Management Buckets, half-day workshop at the Association of Gospel Rescue Missions annual convention
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