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(MoneyWatch) We learned this week that Phil Jackson’s new book, Eleven Rings, summarizes Tribal Leadership in the first chapter and refers to it throughout his book. You can see his references to “Tribal Leadership,” which I co-authored with others, here.

This post will focus on the three things that made Jackson’s leadership unusual, and unusually effective. We can all learn from them.

[Here’s the first.]

1. Reject the “one way to leadership” myth. There are many who simply stumble on a leadership process that seems to work and proclaim it the only way to go. But leadership is an endless journey of discovery. The best leaders never stop their quest. I’ve written about “Leadership Tourette Syndrome,” where authors refer not to leadership but to something else — religion, psychology, anthropology. They stick in the L-word wherever they can and sell more books.

Jackson cites Lao Tzu, Stephen Covey, the Lakota Indians, Buddhism and many other sources. Credit for this mix must also be given to his Eleven Rings co-author, Hugh Delehanty. The New York Times criticized the two for creating an unwieldy conglomeration from such diverse sources (including Tribal Leadership). I would counter that leadership does emerge from a search for the “one way,” but that great leaders never stop there. Those who are truly successful — who win 13 NBA championship rings, two as a player and 11 as a coach — synthesize many approaches draw upon many different — and seemingly discordant — sources.

In his book, Jackson acknowledges these and takes us along on a journey through which he gets them to work together. He recognizes that settling on any single approach, method, process or framework will threaten his capacity to lead.

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Dave Logan is a USC faculty member, management consultant, and the best-selling author of four books including Tribal Leadership and The Three Laws of Performance. He is also Senior Partner of CultureSync, a management consulting firm, which he co-founded in 1997. To check out all of his articles, please click here.