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Steve Jamison

Business & Careers | Biographies & Memoirs

Congratulations Coach Wooden and Steve Jamison. WOODEN ON LEADERSHIP (McGraw-Hill) voted among Top 25 Leadership Books of All Time! Steve Jamison is a best-selling author and America's foremost authority on the life and leadership of UCLA Coach John Wooden, often cited as the greatest coach of the 20th century (ten March Madness national championships). Together they wrote WOODEN ON LEADERSHIP (McGraw-Hill), a Wall Street Journal best-seller. They also collaborated on eight additional publications including WOODEN: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections; My Personal Best: Life Lessons From an All-American Journey; The Essential Wooden, and more. Their children's book, INCH and MILES: The Journey To Success (Perfection Learning), brings Coach Wooden's message of how to be the best you can be to kids of all ages. Mr. Jamison is also executive producer of the award-winning PBS presentation JOHN WOODEN: Values, Victory, and Peace of Mind, and a consultant to the UCLA/Anderson John Wooden Global Leadership Program. He has also collaborated with other coaching icons including Bill Walsh, former head coach of the San Francisco 49ers whose dynasty won 5 Super Bowl championships (THE SCORE TAKES CARE OF ITSELF: My Lessons in Leadership ); and tennis coaching legend and ESPN commentator Brad Gilbert with whom he wrote WINNING UGLY: Mental Warfare in Tennis, the most popular tennis instruction book of the 21st century and includes a special chapter by Andre Agassi. In addition to his publishing and producing career, Mr. Jamison is a popular speaker as well as Executive Producer of The John Wooden Leadership Course. He is currently writing a book about his years working with Coach Wooden and the lessons he learned from the legend.

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