Synopsis

October 12th, 2009
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Book Description

From the legendary basketball coach who inspired generations of athletes and businesspeople, an inspiring book about the power of mentoring and being mentored.

After eight books, many of them bestsellers, A Game Plan for Life is the one closest to John Wooden’s heart: a moving and inspirational guide to the power of mentorship. The first half focuses on the people who helped foster the values that carried Wooden through an incredibly successful and famously principled career, including his college coach, his wife, Abraham Lincoln, and Mother Teresa. The second half is built around interviews with some of the many people he mentored over the years, including Kareem Abdul- Jabbar, Bill Walton, fellow coaches, family members, and even a middle school coach in Canada. Their testimony takes readers inside the lessons Wooden taught to generations of players, bringing out the very best in them not just as athletes but as human beings. In all, it’s an inspiring primer on how to achieve success without sacrificing principles, and on how to build one of the most productive and rewarding relationships available to any athlete, businessperson, teacher, or parent: that of mentor and protégé.

Publicity Info

CONTACT: Peter Miller
Director of Publicity
Bloomsbury
646-307-5579
peter.miller@bloomsburyusa.com

Excerpt

A Game Plan for Life

Contents

Foreword by John C. Maxwell ix

Part I: The Seven Mentors in My Life

1. What Is a Mentor?

2. Joshua Wooden

3. Earl Warriner

4. Glenn Curtis

5. Piggy Lambert

6. Mother Teresa

7. Abraham Lincoln

8. My Beloved Nellie

Part II: Seven People to Whom I Have  Been a Mentor

9. Pay It Forward

10. Kareem Abdul- Jabbar

11. Bill Walton

12. Andy Hill

13. Roy Williams

14. Dale Brown

15. Bob Vigars

16. Cori Nicholson

17. Closing Thoughts

Acknowledgments

Index

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