LOS ANGELES —cheap jordans online Mad geniuses of all varieties—Michael Jordan,Kobe Bryant, Dennis Rodman, Tex Winter—have been brought into their best focus with Phil Jackson's support. He has taught teams overly controlled to tap into their abandon, teams too reckless to harness their power.
Jackson's gift, which he brings to the New York Knicks beginning this week, is taking what is around him and leading it toward balance. If you were to boil down his business plan, long before it is to win, it is to make sense of and bring stability to all that is around him.
So if you happen to be around him, even if you're not as ferocious as Bryant or as awkward as Rodman, even when you don't get a ring if the last game is won, you learn about balance.
Wherever you work, you pick up on things your co-workers know and believe. My office has, for much of my journalism career, cheap jordans onlineessentially featured Jackson in a nearby cubicle. And my job has been to understand and explain everything Jackson is doing.
Jackson has never been my coach—yet in a sense, he absolutely has.
Same as Derek Fisher or Brian Shaw, I learned you're a fool if you really try to treat everyone the same. Same as Lamar Odom or Andrew Bynum, I came to understand how important it is to quiet your mind to find focus in the moment. Same as Rick Fox or Luke Walton, I even breathe differently because of Jackson.
More than anything elsecheap jordan shoes, I learned that control is a fleeting concept.
My own father is a hard-driving authority figure who didn't want to hear explanations for not being the best in anything. In part from watching so much of Jackson's direction with his teams,cheap jordan shoesI've shifted away from the heavy hand, including in my own parenting. So often I've confirmed how much better it is to let people go ahead and events play out, in order for everyone's lessons to spring forth organically.
Jackson's whole concept of not calling timeout epitomizes the spirit: Push, don't pull. Err on the side of encouraging experience and self-examination. The greatest leader is the invisible leader.
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