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The Last, Last Dance: How to Motivate Isolated Athletes
The legendary coach of the Michael Jordan-led Chicago Bulls, Phil Jackson, would choose a theme for every basketball season, perhaps to help the team focus on particular efforts or nuances for each unique composition of players and challenges. The behaviors, actions, and messages from coaches create enduring impressions on their team’s culture and environment, and can ultimately affect the team’s overall performance [1]. Jackson’s theme for the 97-98 season, “The Last Dance”, now a wildly popular biopic focusing on Michael Jordan, is the golden exemplar of thematic success — maybe there’s something to these themes?
