Phil Jackson
Hall of Fame Speech
One-on-One Interview
One-on-One Interview
One-on-One Interview
One-on-One Interview
Zen and the Art of Winning: Phil Jackson’s Team Leadership
Phil Jackson won 11 NBA Championship rings as a coach—6 with the Chicago Bulls and 5 with the LA Lakers. He’s the most winningest, successful coach not only in NBA history, but in the history of professional sports the world over. A maestro of managing egos, Jackson got people like Kobe Bryant, Shaq, Scottie Pippen…
The Distillation of Phil Jackson
Phil Jackson is a champion, nonconformist, lifelong learner, maverick, cultivator of talent, leader, and explorer of the unknown. In this Distillation, I’ll go into the mindsets, leadership lessons, and against-the-grain strategies Phil Jackson has used to become one of the greatest coaches in all of the sports…
Phil Jackson: The Zen Master of the NBA
The Last Dance, ESPN’s docuseries that chronicled Michael Jordan’s last season with the Chicago Bulls, is fascinating in every aspect. People who surrounded Michael Jordan are also fascinating, and one of the most impressive people is obviously coach Phil Jackson, who seemed to have…
The Soul of Teamwork
Los Angeles Lakers coach Phil Jackson—by percentage (.738) the winningest coach in NBA history—is renowned for his ability to turn megastars into team players. And his secret is spiritual. “The most effective way to forge a winning team,” he writes in Sacred Hoops: Spiritual Lessons of a Hardwood Warrior, “is to call on the players’ need…
How Phil Jackson is influencing today's NBA coaches
Three days had passed since Doc Rivers watched the first two episodes of “The Last Dance,” and he couldn’t get the predicament former Chicago Bulls coach Phil Jackson faced during that 1997-98 season out of his head. “Can you imagine?” Rivers asked on the twice-weekly Zoom call he has…
