Doc Rivers | Conflict and Communication
The Jon Gordon Podcast
Jon Gordon
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🗓️ 3 June 2020
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to Jon Gordon's Positive University Podcast. On this episode Jon is joined by Doc Rivers.
Doc is an NBA Championship winning coach. He played 13 very successful seasons in the NBA before becoming the head coach of the Orlando Magic and then the Boston Celtics which he lead to a 2008 NBA Championship. He is currently the Head Coach of the Los Angeles Clippers.
Doc shares incredible insights about what's going on now right now in our society, the importance of communicating with your team, what he's learned from his parents and his core principles as a coach, and more.
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If you want to learn more about how to improve the communication on your team or have difficult conversations, grab a copy of Jon's bestselling book The Power of a Positive Team. It's available anywhere books are sold and at powerofapositiveteam.com
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to John Gordon's Positive University podcast. I'm Daniel Decker, the co-host of |
| 0:06.2 | Positive U and on this episode John is joined by Doc Rivers. Doc is an NBA championship |
| 0:11.7 | winning coach. |
| 0:12.7 | As a matter of fact, he's a legend. |
| 0:14.3 | He played 13 successful seasons in the NBA |
| 0:17.4 | before becoming the head coach of the Orlando Magic |
| 0:20.0 | and the Boston Celtics, which he led to a 2008 NBA championship. |
| 0:24.5 | He is currently the head coach of the LA Clippers. |
| 0:27.2 | Doc shares incredible insights about what's going on in our society right now, |
| 0:31.2 | the importance of communicating with your team, what he's learned from his |
| 0:34.1 | parents and his core principles as a coach. |
| 0:36.7 | Now if you enjoy this episode, be sure to share it with others. |
| 0:39.5 | And if you want to learn more about how to improve the communication on your team or have difficult |
| 0:43.9 | conversations grab a copy of John Gordon's best-selling book, The Power of a |
| 0:48.0 | positive team. It's available anywhere books are sold and at Power of a |
| 0:51.8 | positive team. |
| 0:52.8 | All right let's join John and Doc. |
| 0:54.8 | Hey this is John Gordon with the positive university and today my guest is |
| 1:00.3 | Doc Rivers Doc how you doing? |
| 1:02.3 | I'm doing great. I mean listen we're living in some difficult times John as you know we have the |
| 1:09.3 | virus and obviously the protests and it's just a tough time in all our lives and in this |
| 1:16.6 | country but we're all alive and we're kicking and so we got to keep doing that. |
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