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Sunday, November 17, 2013

Eleven Rings

Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success
Phil Jackson (and Hugh Delehanty)
334 Pages












Phil Jackson, arguably the best basketball coach the world has ever seen, has many different conflicts in his book Eleven Rings. Phil talks about the struggles of managing ego's, learning to be a leader, working as a team, and more, to win the ultimate prize, an NBA championship. Phil is an 11 time champion, winning 6 titles with arguably the best basketball player that ever lived, Michael 'MJ, His Airness, Black Cat, Money, Air Jordan' Jordan (and the Chicago Bulls), and 5 with arguably the second best basketball who ever lived, Kobe 'The Black Mamba, The Dagger, Izzo, Kob-Me, Mr. 81, KB-24, The 8th Wonder Of The World, Kobe Wan Kenobi, Neo, Lord Of The Rings' Bryant, and arguably the best center who ever lived, Shaquille 'The Big Aristotle, The Big Daddy, The Big Shaqtus, Shaq, The Big Cactus, The Big Banana, MayorMcShaq, The Real Deal, The Big Agave, The Big Shamrock, Big Shamrock, Shaq Daddy, Manny Shaq-iaou, Hobo Master, The Big eQuotatious, Superman, The Big Galactus, The Big Felon, The Big Field General, The Big Maravich, The Big Conductor, Diesel, Shaq Fu, The Big IPO, The Big Baryshnikov, Wilt Chamberneezy, The Big Leprechaun, Dr. Shaq, Shaqovic, The Big Twitterer, Witness Protection, L.C.L, Osama Bin Shaq, MDE, The Diesel, The Big Cordially' O'Neal (and the Lakers).
Phil, being arguably the best basketball coach ever, tried many different approaches to managing his players, and as he gained more experience he learned that when you give every player a 'leadership' role, not only will they mature, but they will respect you. Another thing he learned about respect is that if you speak from the heart, while giving the players the freedom of expressing themselves without surrendering final authority, not only will you have the final call and the 'teams vision', but you will have your players respect too.

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