Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success (39 page)

Talking Heads, 66

Tao of Leadership, The
(Heider), 121

Tao Te Ching
(Lao-tzu), 18–19, 238

Taylor, Fred, 87

Teasdale, Wayne, 125

Telander, Rick, 243

Terry, Jason, 328, 331

Theokas, Charlie, 60

“think power,” 13

Thomas, Isiah

in 1990–91 season, 107

Pistons and, 63–64, 75, 106

wrist injury of, 104

Threatt, Sedale, 75

Thurman, Robert, 269

Tolle, Eckhart, 244

Tomjanovich, Rudy, 116, 278

Tonight Show, The,
175

Toronto Raptors, 283

Trail Blazers.
See
Portland Trail Blazers

transparency between coach and players, 92–93

Travolta, John, 164

triangle offense system, 14–15, 68–71

backup players and, 93

Bulls’ use of, 14–15, 68–69, 81–83, 158

challenge of, 71

as exposing each player’s mind-set, 232

Fitch and, 25

Jordan and, 81–83

Lakers’ use of, 14–15, 207, 208, 209–10, 215, 217

misconceptions about, 69–70

Rodman’s reaction to, 152

Tribal Leadership
(Logan, King, and Fischer-Wright), 7–8, 81

triple-post offense.
See
triangle offense system

Turkoglu, Hedo, 258

unconscious mind, 23

University of North Dakota, 25, 48

Utah Jazz, 7, 60

in 1996–97 season, 179–81

in 1997–98 season, 191, 196–98

in 2007–08 season, 298

in 2008–09 season, 304

in 2009–10 season, 318

Van Arsdale, Dick, 29, 34

Van Damme, Jean-Claude, 170

Varieties of Religious Experience, The
(James), 49

Vedder, Eddie, 176

Vincent, Sam, 75

Vitti, Gary, 325

Vujacic, Sasha

in 2005–06 season, 281, 283

in 2007–08 season, 293

in 2010–11 season, 322, 323

D’Antoni’s criticism of, 288

Waits, Tom, 110

Walker, Samaki, 250, 255

Wallace, Ben, 275, 313

Wallace, Chris, 163

Wallace, Rasheed, 223, 275, 312, 320

Walton, Bill, 302

Walton, Luke

in 2005–06 season, 281

in 2006–07 season, 288

in 2007–08 season, 293

in 2008–09 season, 9, 302

in 2009–10 season, 317

evolution as a player, 302–3

on Fisher, 295

Jackson’s mind games with, 22

on Kobe, 303, 304

War
(Junger), 4

Warren, John, 36

Washington, Kermit, 116

Webber, Chris, 221, 222, 257, 258

Weiss, Jeff, 1

Wells, Bonzi, 223, 314

Wennington, Bill, 135, 139, 160

West, Jerry, 38, 204, 216, 235, 311

Westbrook, Russell, 318

Whelan, Danny, 32

Wherever You Go, There You Are
(Kabat-Zinn), 137

White, Jo Jo, 55, 56

White Sox, 145

Whitelaw, Ginny, 244

Whitman, Walt, 163

Wilbon, Michael, 312

Williams, Brian, 177, 178, 181, 193

Williams, Scott, 139, 143, 144

winning, fixating on, 23–24

Winter, Tex, 149

background of, 68

as Bulls’ assistant coach, 68, 70, 76, 82–83, 87

coaching style of, 64, 68, 70–71, 86, 220

Collins and, 75

on Fox’s tirade, 224

on Jackson as “luckiest coach in world,” 102

on Jordan, 118

as Lakers’ assistant coach, 209, 235, 240

on Lakers’ successful championship runs, 319

on Luc’s remark about critics, 190

triangle offense system and, 14, 25, 68, 82–83, 93, 131

Wooden, John, 110

Worthy, James, 108

Yellowbank, James, 125

zazen,
51

Zen Buddhism, 14, 51, 52–54

See also
Buddhism

Zen Leader, The
(Whitelaw), 244

Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind
(Suzuki), 51

Ziegler, Mark, 314

zikers,
51

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“Moving Water”, found
here
, from
The Soul of Rumi: A New Collection of Ecstatic Poems,
translated by Coleman Barks. Copyright © 2001 by Coleman Barks. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.

Excerpt, found
here
, from “Danny’s All-Star Joint” by Rickie Lee Jones. Used by permission of Rickie Lee Jones.

Excerpts, found
here
,
here
, and
here
, from
Tao Te Ching
by Stephen Mitchell. Brief excerpts from Foreword, from
Tao Te Ching, a New English Version with Foreword and Notes
by Stephen Mitchell. Translation copyright © 1988 by Stephen Mitchell. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.

Quotation, found
here
, from
A Joseph Campbell Companion, Reflections on the Art of Living,
1991, reprinted by permission of the Joseph Campbell Foundation (jcf.org).

Words to “Ripple”, found
here
, by Robert Hunter, copyright © Ice Nine publishing company. Used with permission.

Quotation, found
here
, from
Words of Wisdom: More Good Advice,
compiled and edited by William Safire and Leonard Safire. Copyright 1989 by Cobbett Corporation.

Quotation, found
here
, from
Miyamoto Musashi: His Life and Writings,
by Kenji Tokitsu, translated by Sherab Chodzin Kohn. Originally published as
Miyamoto Musashi: Maître de Sabre japonais du XVIIe siècle,
© Éditions Désiris, 2000. English translation © 2004 by Shambhala Publications, Inc. Reprinted by arrangement with Shambhala Publications, Inc., Boston, MA. www.shambhala.com.

Excerpt, found
here
, reprinted by permission from
Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux. The Premier Edition
by John G. Neihardt, the State University of New York Press, copyright © 2008, State University of New York. All rights reserved.

The Parables,
here
, and
here
, from
Harvard Business Review.
An excerpt from “Parables of Leadership” by W. Chang Kim and Renee A. Mauborgne, July/August 1992 (pp. 149–151).

Quotation, found
here
, by permission of Tom Waits.

Excerpt, found
here
, reprinted with permission from
The Tao of Leadership
, by John Heider (Humanics Limited, 1985). Copyright © 1985 by Humanics Ltd.

Quote, found
here
, by Tuli Kupferberg, courtesy of the Tuli Kupferberg Estate.

Quote, found
here
, reprinted from
Present Moment Wonderful Moment: Mindfulness Verses for Daily Living
(1990, 2007 rev. ed.) by Thich Nhat Hanh with permission of Parallax Press, Berkeley, CA. www.parallax.org.

Quote, found
here
, reprinted by arrangement with The Heirs of the Estate of Martin Luther King, Jr. c/o Writers House as agent for the proprietor, New York, NY. Copyright © 1961 by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; copyright renewed 1991 by Coretta Scott King.

Quotation, found
here
, used with permission of Brené Brown.

Excerpt, found
here
, used with permission of the San Francisco Zen Center.