What Was John Wooden's Secret?
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The UCLA Bruins basketball team won an incredible ten NCAA championships in twelve years under legendary coach John Wooden. At one point, they assembled an astonishing sixty-one game winning streak!

But do you know how many years Wooden coached the Bruins before his very first NCAA Championship with them?

Fifteen.

Jim Collins, writing in Good to Great, notes that from 1948 to 1963, Wooden labored in obscurity before winning his first championship in 1964. Year by year, Coach Wooden built the underlying foundations, developing a recruiting system, implementing a consistent philosophy, and refining the full-court-press style of play. No one paid too much attention to the quiet, soft-spoken coach and his team until - wham! - they hit breakthrough and systematically crushed every serious competitor for more than a decade.

Like the Wooden dynasty, lasting transformations from good to great follow a general pattern of buildup followed by breakthrough. Many dentists keep looking for a magic bullet, when the real magic comes from a team that executes the basics day-in and day-out. Office Magic's 3-Day Practice Prosperity Retreat is all about that methodical buildup, so when the teams go home, they're ready to hit breakthrough.

Want to attend our Retreat? You can't. It sold out days after we announced it. We've already turned away more practices than we accepted. But if you're a good match, you may qualify to have Ginny Hegarty work as your accountability partner as early as the third quarter of 2005.

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