ESPN docu-series The Last Dance has just finished.
It concluded after ten episodes run over a five-week period watched by an audience of 5.6 million. And as it did so, the media lit up with comment about it. Who would have thought that a television series about basketball would cause so many digital words to flow? But then again this series is about no ordinary team, and no ordinary leader(s) of a team.
In the 1990s the Chicago Bulls were THEbasketball team. During that decade the Bulls won six NBA Championships. They dominated their opponents; they dominated the game; but those basketball players moved from the basketball court into the mainstream as a team that showed how it could be done in life and in business as much as in sports. This focus on success and how to succeed in business without selling your soul is a recurring theme.
At the core of that success for the Chicago Bulls stood two men. One famous and one well known but perhaps not as famous, the former is Michael Jordan, the latter is Phil Jackson. Their leadership styles offer a master class in real leadership.