PART IORIGINS OF LEADERSHIPA COMPASS FOR CORE VALUES
THE ORIGIN OF MY LEADERSHIP
The best man I’ve ever known is my father, Joshua Hugh Wooden. He was also my greatest teacher. What Dad taught me, and how he taught it, had a most profound impact on what I did professionally.
In style and substance, much of what I taught in 40 years as a leader and coach can be traced back in some manner to his own teaching, his own example back on our farm in Centerton, Indiana.
My father had a commonsense kind of wisdom. A man of few words, when Joshua Hugh Wooden said something, he really said something.
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