Recent leaders of IBM: Thomas Watson, Sr Thomas Watson, Jr T. Vincent Learson Frank T. Cary John R. Opel John F. Akers Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Samuel J. Palmisano When and in what capacity did Jack Welch serve as a key executive for IBM?
definitely overrated I'd like to see him coach a team where talent didn't GIVE him the championship phil jackson in the bulls era simply called plays, he didn't win championships for them foolish jordon and tiny kerr won them!
Hmm if you take the 91-93, 96-98 Bulls coached by jackson agains the Lakers of 00-02 coached by Jackson who would win?
I think you meant GE, not IBM. Welch didn't make GE #1 by himself, and crediting the CEO with all the success of a large corporation which is ( debatable ) is not a good analogy.
I think Phil would've had the skill and credibility to take Portland to the championship during the 2000 season. The Lakers had a much better team during Kobe's second season with Eddie Jones, Van Exel, Campbell playing backup center, but they failed to win it because they were under-coached or they didn't want to follow under a system. If he wins his 10th this year, then he will be the most successful coach in NBA history. That is an accomplishment of itself.
That's not an analogy. That's a comparison of two coaches in different sports. A football coach has a lot more to do with the team's result than a basketball coach because football is not a continuous playing sport. You prepare for the whole week for one game. You huddle, get the play from the coach before executing each play. In basketball, you don't have time to practice all week (for back-to-back games you don't have any at all) to prepare for an opponent. In games, the players have to make on the spot decisions. In basketball, it's always the players who win games. More precisely, it's always the best players on the team who control the flow and ultimately the outcome of the game. My short-yardage analogy is just an illustration that a coach that is good at pushing a tremendously talented team over the hump is not necessarily the greatest coach on earth. That is just one facet of coaching. And Phil Jackson has never shown he could do other facets of the profession well enough to deserve the "best ever" status.
