by Craig Impelman | Jan 3, 2018 | Blog
A mentor is defined as someone who imparts wisdom to and shares knowledge with a less experienced colleague; a trusted counselor or guide. In his book A Game Plan for Life: The Power of Mentoring with Don Yaeger, Coach Wooden said this: “While I made my living as a...
by Craig Impelman | Nov 2, 2016 | Blog
Editor’s note: This article appears in the December issue of SUCCESS magazine featuring Coach John Wooden. Check it out on newsstands November 8. At the University of California-Los Angeles, John Wooden won a record 10 NCAA men’s basketball championships, but he...
by Craig Impelman | Sep 22, 2016 | Blog
“Some people go through their lives like they are walking slowly into a swimming pool — the water hardly ripples. John Wooden wasn’t one of those people,” Coach Mike Krzyzewski wrote in the forward of A Game Plan for Life: The Power of Mentoring by Don Yaeger about...
by Craig Impelman | Aug 26, 2010 | Blog
Fewer than two decades separate the birth of basketball in December 1891, when James Naismith nailed a peach basket to the wall in Springfield, Mass., and the birth of John Robert Wooden in October 1910. But his leadership, ethics and example would make him the game’s...
