 | Wooden treats winning organisations as character under load — industriousness, enthusiasm, and peak effort when it counts — not talent catalogues. The Pyramid of Success stacks personal traits before competitive outcomes. Wooden First published 2005 - Edition (2005) · McGraw-Hill · ISBN 9780071453394 |
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Core science
Practitioner leadership text from coaching tradition — not a laboratory methods paper. Use as operational vocabulary for character and effort; pair Club doctrine with effort/adversity concepts when you need lab spines.
Application
Open when a session installs character-and-effort over talent, or when a member hides behind skill acquisition while fleeing exposure. Pair with Wooden’s rule for the Club one-liner and Player / Deliberate Practice for the training ring.