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Phil Jackson is an American former professional basketball coach who employed holistic practices such as mindfulness and meditation in building winning teams and encouraging selflessness and collaboration among his players. Jackson, who also played professional basketball before coaching, is the most successful coach in NBA history, guiding his teams to eleven championships.

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Zen and the Art of Winning: Phil Jackson’s Team Leadership

Phil Jackson’s Zen leadership style was wildly successful on the court. It provides no shortage of food for thought when it comes to work and real life too.

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Christopher Sirk
2020
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Williams: Phil Jackson Demonstrates Lakota Measure of Greatness

Jackson is not only the greatest NBA coach ever, he is Swift Eagle: an honorable and generous man whom all of the world can look up to.

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Richard B. Williams
2018
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No Doubt, a Spirit Runs Through Him

Swift Eagle, Ohnahkoh Wamblee to his Lakota Sioux pals, is Phil Jackson, who received his Sioux name because of his long arms that stretched like wings when he swooped down the basketball floor during a clinic with Bill “Tall Elk” Bradley at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota in 1973.

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Jim Hodges
1999
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Phil Jackson’s 11 Principles of Mindful Leadership

Phil Jackson’s principles support the idea that a leader’s job is to build leaders at all levels.

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LeadershipNow Staff
2013
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Phil Jackson Distributes ‘Mindfulness on the Go’ Book to Knicks, Filled with Meditation Exercises

The book—"Mindfulness on the Go"—follows Jackson's Zen philosophies, listing 25 meditation exercises meant to be easily incorporated in everyday life.

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Stefan Bondy
2016
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The Soul of Teamwork

Find out what does this remarkable head coach has to say in this interview about the heightened group consciousness that can awaken when teams come together beyond the divisive forces of the ego.

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Ross Robertson
2013
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Buddha and the Bulls

A Buddhist practitioner for twenty years, Phil Jackson revolutionized coaching by leading with a Zen approach to the sport that centers on awareness training, selfless teamwork, and “aggressiveness without anger.”

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Hugh Delehant
1994
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Coached by the Zen Master, the Knicks Try Mindfulness

Most players said they found the exercises useful, even if they were not quite sure what they were doing.

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Mike Vorkunov
2016
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