He was one of a handful of players in college basketball history to be part of three national championship teams. After nearly three decades, and with considerable trepidation, Mr. Hill reintroduced himself to Mr. Wooden, who welcomed him with open arms. The coach's other precepts are much like the aphorisms loved by coaches everywhere. Failing to prepare is preparing to fail. Keep it simple.
Balance is everything.
Concentrate on what you can control, not on what you can't. Mr. Wooden, now 90, always credited his bedrock principle never compare yourself to anyone else to his father, an Indiana farmer in the early 1900's. What matters, the coach taught, is becoming the best you are capable of to follow your inner compass, to know that success is open to everyone. Mr. Hill takes a score of these precepts and relates each one to a telling episode in his business experience. Perhaps his most insightful observations have to do with ordinary mortals working in tandem with extraordinarily talented individuals, as was routinely his experience in television.