Tag: Teamwork

The Myth of the Superhero

In looking back at the past week, I was reminded of these excerpts from Phil Jackson‘s book, Sacred Hoops: Basketball is a sport that involves the subtle interweaving of players at full speed to the point where they are thinking and moving as one. To do that successfully, they need to trust each other on …

The Science of Motivation

Dan Pink, in this TED Talk on the science of motivation, does a great job of ‘making a case’ that what businesses do is contradicting what science has proven to be true. There are many take-aways in this one. And, if you have 18mins to stick sit through it, it think you find it insightful. If …

The No Stat All-Star

Big thanks to Coach Jimmy Johnson for sharing this article with me on NYTimes.com: Money(basket)ball: The No Stat All-Star. “The five players on any basketball team are far more than the sum of their parts; the Rockets devote a lot of energy to untangling subtle interactions among the team’s elements. To get at this they …