A Bit of Optimism · 2026-06-02 · 57 min · 10,759 words

What Happens When You Stop Optimizing and Start Committing with Former LA Lakers President Tim Harris

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When you have these kind of positions like I have with the Lakers is you're around these like amazing human beings. You're around people like Phil Jackson. And here's the the one thing that great leaders, great coaches, it's human first. Phil Jackson, he cared about the human being. Yeah.

You have to love them in order to win. You don't need to win in order to be loved. You have to love them in order to win. You don't need to win in order to be loved. That is that is about as good as it gets.

Most of us have had more than one job, probably even more than a few. We pivot, we hustle, we optimize. Why? Because we live in a world where loyalty to one company, quite frankly, has become a relic of the past and flexibility has become a professional necessity.

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