Suzuki teaches to meditate sitting with a straight spine, relaxed shoulder and chin pulled in as if you wanted to support the sky with your head.

Rodman and Jordan proved this by working together when it mattered. Phil says that during this season Kobe transformed from a selfish player into a leader that, finally, teammates wanted to follow.

When he let Jordan solve the problems and answer the questions by himself, he’d be more likely to buy into the solution (the “rule of involvement” as explained by Kurt Mortensen in Maximum Influence.

He became calmer and more patient, qualities that helped him immensely as a coach. My Note: This was a strategy later also used by football coach Jose Marino, albeit the guy after starting with a bang later slipped into anonymity. Just as a note, this does not mean being a pushover. I particularly liked the behind the scene and the focus on Phil’s own personal growth via philosophy and meditation. In the late 1990s, few NBA players seemed more uniquely qualified to enter a pro-wrestling ring than Dennis Rodman.On the court, Rodman wasn't just a Chicago Bull; he was a pit bull, and a very bad boy at that. It’s well-documented that Jordan wasn’t the easiest teammate to be around, and Rodman had his history of eccentricities.

Phil sees the triangle as a system that develops as the game unfolds, “in the moment”. We’re not calling each other every day and hanging out, but when we see each other, we share the love.”.

My Note: This highlighted the psychological need of some people to stand up to authority just for the sake of not following orders.

He knew how to get Rodman to do what was best for the team.

Phil used meditation both in his life and with his teams. Including tough ones. And he started trusting him on the court more as well. And he encouraged players to find themselves and find their own specific qualities (read The Gifts of Imperfection). And once Dennis realized nobody was interested in his little push backs, he stopped. Give them lots of room instead, even encourage them to be mischievous and then watch them. He was looking for a middle way between systems and space for personal creativity. He then didn’t let the situation pan out without injecting his ego an escalating. Phil Jackson made it a point to get to know his players, the “rule of involvement” as explained by Kurt Mortensen in. I wished here he gave more practical examples and more factual stories. Phil says that his approach with Kobe was to be as direct as possible and doing so in front of everyone. He wanted an environment in which everyone had a leadership role, however small that could be (also read Principles: Life and Work). He says the beauty of the system is that every players counts and you can’t simply rely on the superstar to do something. Similarly, to control people, the biggest mistake is to try to control them directly.

When Kobe said he’d like to be captain as soon as possible, Phil replied that you can’t be a captain if nobody follows you. Read here on how to get a growth mindset. The “Jordan Rules” is how the Pistons stopped Michael Jordan.

Over the course of the book, Phil talks about the sacred he created to infuse practices and games with a sense of the sacred. Sometimes Phil would make a joke, giving him a small fine or simply ignore it.

Phil quotes Dave Logan, John King, and Halee Fischer-Wright in their five stages of tribal development, which are: Phil Jackson says that the principles of leadership he used are quite simple: Some coaches look at what try new hip techniques to gain an edge. It gives everyone enough freedom to express themselves within a well defined structure.

It’s a far cry from the way teams work today, but perhaps that’s why there’s never been a team quite like the Bulls.

Many other factors matter says Phil, like for example talent, intelligence, toughness and even luck. Then focus on your breath in and out. He was playing the bad cop and then use one of his coaches to mellow the player later on. I would say the most important takeaways are: A few more specific example of players rebellions and how he handled in the specific situations would have been nice (The Power Moves is all about specific situations and example, which I believe are the best way to learn).

And he learned to lead his two daughters as well.

And especially good for leaders leading highly driven and talented individuals. The key, says Phil, was to learn that to get from his teammates, Kobe had to learn to give.

A great team spirit is the key to the scoreboard, not the other way around.

The tendency for some of us might be to have weak people around us so that we can feel superior and in power.

He’d ask how that strategy could improve the team, what would Scottie or Horace feels about it.

A place where they could get a sense of oneness  and team spirit. Phil says that it took him years of practice, but eventually the more aware he started to be about what was going on within him, the more he became connected to the world outside. Kobe was possibly more difficult to coach though, because his goal was becoming the greatest of all time.

Fate couldn't have written a better script. The triangle was hard to play against and to prepare against because, well.. Not even the players themselves knew what was going to happen. Jordan didn’t measure his relationship with teammates based on their off-court friendships. Phil stayed focused in the moment and looked for another player to take the shot instead of Pippen. With three rings and a team still lauded by many as the greatest ever assembled, the relationship worked as well as people would want it to. Scottie was more human than Michael, better at relating with other players.

What matters is playing the right way and growing, as human beings and as players. Jackson would later understand that Kobe took his laissez faire approach as indifference. But the more he tried to exercise power in a direct way, the less effective and powerful he was. But when he realized Phil wasn’t going to back down, he started looking for ways to make the system work to make him win. Once you ignore, the issue often goes away as they don’t feel pressured anymore. Bill wasn’t afraid to stand up to Jordan. That kind of bond, of being willing to take a hit for a comrade, is critical to success. In 2011, Rodman sat down with ESPN’s Graham Bensinger to discuss his time with the Bulls and what it was like behind the scenes. Phil often reminded the team to focus on the journey rather than on the end destination. Lastly, Phil says that the main message he wants to share with Eleven Rings is to see yourself as something bigger than yourself. Jackson understood the whipping boy stratagem was a losing one and constructive criticism, respect and compassion were the way to go.

To him it means reaching that stage of deep camaraderie arising when a group commits to something greater than themselves, no matter the risks standing in the way. Each game had to be meaningful for them in light of what they were trying to do as a team. By allowing Kobe to run slipshod, Jackson was showing weakness. “Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success” is a great book. He says that in every successful team he’s coached, players had a clear idea of their role in the team. My Note: Simon Sinek similarly says that when there’s internal accord and a supportive leadership than the tribe can focus on beating the external enemies (Leaders Eat Last). © Copyright 2020 Endgame360 Inc. All Rights Reserved. Chapter 18 starts with a quote from the Buddah: Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. The team needed someone else to balance Jordan’s perfectionism, so Phil named Bill Cartwright as cocaptain.

And on the day of the hotly anticipated match, both athletes performed admirably. They were playing to enjoy the game itself and they were in a competition with themselves only. But I felt like Jackson had made a leadership mistake here.

However, Michael had to win at everything, while Kobe seemed to compete with himself first and foremost.

Phil says you can’t force people to change, but you have to inspire them to want to change. Something going beyond the confines of your ego and embrace instead something that “includes everything”. He would treat him as a partner and ask him questions to switch his point of view.

Which is just another way of repeating a key tenet in Eleven Rings: focus on the task at hand, don’t get lost in the past and don’t worry about the future. Kevin Nash had high praise for the NBA legend, telling an interviewer that Rodman "could make the transition" to pro wrestling. It involves covering teammates’ mistakes and weaknesses and even fouling when necessary to protect a friend. Having a clear structure helps reduce the players’ anxiety and stress because there’s no need jostle around for power and positions. His approach of focusing on creating the conditions for success and then letting go of the outcome is also particularly inspiring (as opposed to a more “the result is all that matter” approach as in Extreme Ownership). Phil says that the most common type of coaching in the NBA are domineering or pandering to their stars and treating them like friends. Let your thoughts come and go naturally.

Chapter 22: THIS GAME’S IN THE REFRIGERATOR, Love -the bond of brotherhood- is what makes winning possible, Distributing leadership is what makes you a great leader, Not intervening is sometimes the very best you can do, stay balanced during big wins and big losses.

It says it means “coming back to the present moment”, an act which is not only limited to meditation itself, but should take place all day long. Rodman had a perfect persona for pro wrestling: outspoken, rebellious, and aggressively flamboyant. Phil Jackson describes here the emotional last dance with the Bulls. Rogers helped his clients more on growing personally than on solving their specific problems. Phil says Dennis tried to buck the system, sometimes in small and childish ways, like showing up with an untied shoe or hiding some jewelry. Then the final win takes care of itself (also read sometimes you win sometimes you learn). Here’s a video: The author says he was looking for a system that had the ball move around in a selfless fashion, and ended up using the triangle offense to reach that goal. Of course, the author clarifies, it’s not about romantic love, and not even brotherly love. Jackson let it play out until it solved itself.

It allows coaches to criticize the play, not the players. “Me and Mike and Scottie revolutionized the game,” Rodman said.

That year, Rodman and Malone would collide at the NBA Finals, which were scheduled to end the month before their clash at the Bash at the Beach pay-per-view, where Rodman would team with Hulk Hogan to face Malone and Page. He quotes Casey Stengen: “the secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided. This might make sense to those who know Jordan. Phil Jackson thought Jordan didn’t really have the magnetic personalities of Larry Bird or Magic Johnson. He’d ask questions such as “what’s your greatest aspiration”, “whose influence you the most” or “what’s something people don’t know about you”. Phil Jackson wanted to give the Bulls a safe environment away from the spotlights. To learn how to get, you need to learn how to give.

Let the thoughts come and go, and they will be under your control.

Exactly what Phil wanted.

But if Rodman is to be believed, this was never the case.



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