Notes on Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success by Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty
Ch 1 the circle of love
Championship ring as symbol
Tribal leadership
Stage 5 culture
Buying into more team oriented approach instead of individual
Ch 2 the Jackson eleven
Mindful leadership
Lead from the inside out
Don't follow what others do
Ditch the ego
Don't try to exert power directly
Let others play leadership role
Let each player discover his own destiny
Let players think for themselves
Learn their individual characters
Road to freedom is a beautiful system
Triangle system strategy
Empowers players and gives creativity
Group problem solving in real time
Turn the mundane into the sacred
Bring individuals together
Unite spirits
Incorporate meditation into the practice
Invent own team rituals
One breath equals one mind
Quiet the chatter in their minds
Mindfulness meditation
Players sitting in silence breathing in sync
Emphasis on openness
The key to success is compassion
Teach simplicity patience and compassion
Keep your eye on the spirit not the scoreboard
Team strongest when stuck together
Sometimes u have to pull out the big stick
Hitting meditator when losing focus
Practice in silence
Scrimmage in darkness
When in doubt do nothing
Especially when involves media
Forget the ring
Don't obsess about outcome
Ch 3 red
Greatest carver does the least cutting
Playing the game the right way
Focus more on defense and ball awareness
Full court press
Pre game rituals
Strengthen spiritual connections before game
Ch 4 the quest
Journey of self discovery
Basketball allowed him to escape parents both ministers and churchm
Zen
Beginners mind
Giving up control. Give people room and just watch them.
Trusting the moment. Let go of thoughts of past and future
Living with compassion. Boundless love for all. Meditate in present moment.
Ch 5 dances with bulls
Thelonious monk, jazz
Collaboration and concrete roles
Everyone keeping time
Triangle system
Ch 6 warrior spirit
Needed to learn to work together as team more not just MJ
Gathering in circular formations before and after practice to discuss objectives
No outsiders allowed at practice
Native American rituals
Lakota warriors
Sioux
Drum in video room
Delegated parts of coaching to others in team
Morning meeting with sub coaches
Ch 7 hearing the unheard
Asking the right questions of team mates
Getting them to solve his problems
Psychological surveys
Taught mindfulness meditation
10 minute sit during practice
Practice in silence
Ch 8 a question of character
Ch 9 bittersweet victory
Self actualization
Maslow
Humanistic psychology
Assigned different book to each player to read during road trip
Brought in experts to teach yoga and tai chi
Guest speakers like nutritionist, undercover detective, and police warden
Ch 10 world in flux
Coaching is giving signal in some way to a player and having them acknowledge their mistake
Ch 11 basketball poetry
Stage 5 leadership team
Find the unique way to communicate with each different person: physical, emotional, verbal, example
Structured practices with clear agenda ahead of time
Daily 10am strength workout
Used videos of old movies inter spliced with game footage to teach lessons and pump up team
Fly in to games night before to let players have more time to rest and adjust
Ch 12 as the world turns
Zen: Everything changes, accept life
Ch 13 the last dance
Enemies and conflict give us gift of testing our strength
Ritual of writing down and sharing what the experience together as team had meant
Ch 14 one breath one mind
To bond lakers players together
Ch 15 the eightfold offense
Taught Kobe to be more team player
Right view
Right thinking
Right speech to self and others
Right action
Right livelihood
Right effort
Right mindfulness
Right concentration
Ch 16 the joy of doing nothing
Tao non action
Effortless
Without interference from conscience
Annual road trip and book giving
Players had to turn in book reports
Chop wood carry water attitude
Be calm no matter what
Ch 17 123 lakers
Three peat
Team trusting each other
Ch 18 the wisdom of anger
Anger focuses the mind and helps to bring about change
Sitting with your anger
Competition between Kobe and shaq worsening team performance
Got fired as lakers coach
Took 7 week trip to clear mind
Ch 19 chop wood carry water
Sabbatical in Australia
Ch 20 destiny's children
Leadership about letting go
Ch 21 deliverance
Ch 22 this game is in the refrigerator
Last game lost
How to deal with loss
Become an active participant in dealing with loss
Meditation
Let go
Surrender to what is
Books he recommends
Tao of leadership
Maslow, the farther reaches of human nature
Zen mind beginners mind (Armstrong)
A monk in the world
Song of Solomon
Things fall apart
Ways of white folks
Joshua a parable for today
Way of the Peaceful warrior
On the road
Beavis and butthead this book sucks
Kabot zinn wherever u go there u are
Shunruki not always so
Siddhartha
Corelli's mandolin
The zen leader
His books
sacred hoops
The last season