Even as an adult, I’ve been known to act out on occasion. Once, after a particularly embarrassing loss to Orlando in the playoffs, I shaved off most of my hair and stomped around the room for nearly an hour until the anger subsided. As a boy I used to marvel at the way my parents created community, transforming the hardscrabble life on the plains of Montana and North Dakota into a sacred experience.

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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.He was communicating he wasn’t strong enough to stand up to Kobe, and people don’t like weak leaders. Don’t Hide Anger

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Once when the Bulls were getting on the team bus after a close come-from-behind win, my trainer Chip Schaefer said he wished we could bottle that late-game energy like a magic potion so we could bring it out whenever we needed it. That’s a nice idea, but what I’ve learned is that the forces that join people harmoniously aren’t that clear-cut. They can’t be manufactured at will, though you can do your best to create the conditions that will promote that sort of transformation—very similar to what my parents tried to do every Sunday in church. That’s the essence of what it means to bring individuals together and connect them to something greater than themselves. I heard that hymn thousands of times when I was growing up, and I witnessed what happens when the spirit touches people and unites them. The rituals had a profound effect on me—and on my approach to leadership—even though later I drifted away from the Pentecostal faith and found a new direction spiritually. Suzuki teaches us to meditate by sitting with a straight spine, relaxed shoulder, and chin pulled in as if we wanted to support the sky with our head.As a leader your job is to do everything in your power to create the perfect conditions for success by benching your ego and inspiring your team to play the game the right way. But at some point, you need to let go and turn yourself over to the basketball gods. The soul of success is surrendering to what is.” Phil says the circle of love is the secret sauce that takes teams from a bunch of individuals to a cohesive winning teams. Phil says that his approach with Kobe was to be as direct as possible and do so in front of everyone. The finale of Rings of Power’s first season dramatizes the forging of the three elven Rings of Power in succinct fashion. A bit of mithril, a bit of Valnorian gold and silver, a few gems, and boom: You’ve got Vilya, Nenya, and Narya, the legendary artifacts themselves. Of course Phil is called The Zen Master. And Buddhism plays a huge role in this book. He quotes a lot of people, and he explains how he used certain techniques to bring together a group of talented individuals and make them a winning team. That's the main thing he tried to teach the players. How I becomes we. As a result the book reads like a cross between a self-help book, an autobiography and an historic account of two (or actually four) extended championship runs. Frankly, I didn't mind.

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The book makes me want to know way more about him though. I'm pretty fascinated with what seems like a deep want to go inward and be very sage/monk-ish vs what continued to drive him to coach and to be open to coach even that last time it didn't work out with the Lakers. I'm interested to see how his children are, what his relationships with ex-wives are like. I'm nosy. Lol. Letting them develop and explore at their own pace without forcing anything on them, but nurturing and guiding them along. Chapter 22: THIS GAME’S IN THE REFRIGERATOR He says the day Michael Jordan realized he needed to get to know his teammate was also the day he became a compassionate leader, which in turn helped him take the Bulls to where they got. He tells you at different times to see beyond what is seen and to hear the unheard…applicable to groups in any walk of life.”— The Bleacher Report About the AuthorHowever, Michael had to win at everything, while Kobe seemed to compete with himself first and foremost. The tendency for some of us might be to have weak people around us so that we can feel superior and in power. STAGE 4—dedicated to tribal pride and the overriding conviction that “we’re great (and they’re not).” This kind of team requires a strong adversary, and the bigger the foe, the more powerful the tribe.

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The “whipping boy” technique uses a single player for most of the criticism to motivate the rest of the team to bond together. Most coaches I know spend a lot of time focusing on X’s and O’s. I must admit that at times I’ve fallen in that trap myself. But what fascinates most people about sports is not the endless chatter about strategy that fills the airwaves. It’s what I like to call the spiritual nature of the game.

At the start of training camp, for instance, we used to perform a ritual that I borrowed from football great Vince Lombardi. As the players formed a row on the baseline, I’d ask them to commit to being coached that season, saying, “God has ordained me to coach you young men, and I embrace the role I’ve been given. If you wish to accept the game I embrace and follow my coaching, as a sign of your commitment, step across that line.” Wonder of wonders, they always did it. In their groundbreaking book, Tribal Leadership, management consultants Dave Logan, John King, and Halee Fischer-Wright lay out the five stages of tribal development, which they formulated after conducting extensive research on small to midsize organizations. Although basketball teams are not officially tribes, they share many of the same characteristics and develop along much the same lines: Lessons in Leadership from Above the Line by Urban Meyer. Three-time national college football champion Urban Meyer distills his system for building exceptional leaders. A great challenge for coaches is to stop the players who dislike them from corrupting the rest and undermining the team’s chemistry.