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The ex - global activities editor of The Wall Street Journal profiles the best teams in history and identifies the counterintuitive control qualities of the unconventional women and men who drove them to succeed. The secret to being successful is not what you think it is. It's not the coach. It's not the star. It's not money. It's not a strategy. It's something else entirely. In the past Sam Walker set out to answer one of the very most hotly debated questions in activities: What exactly are the greatest clubs ever? He devised a formulation, then applied it to a large number of clubs from leagues all around the globe, from the NBA to the English Premier Group to Olympic field hockey. When he was done, he had a set of the 16 most dominant teams in history. At that point he became obsessed with another more complicated question: What did these freak clubs have in common? As Walker dug to their stories, a style emerged. Each team possessed the same kind of captain - one head with an unconventional expertise who drove it to accomplish sustained, traditional greatness. Fueled by a lifetime of activities spectating, twenty years of reporting, and ten years of painstaking research, The Captain School tells the surprising tale of why is teams exceptional. Drawing on original interviews with athletes from two dozen countries as well as general managers, coaches, professionals, and others skilled at building clubs, Walker identifies the seven central qualities of the Captain School - from extreme doggedness and psychological control to a knack for nonverbal communication to hostility and the courage to stand apart. Informed through riveting accounts of some of the most pressure-soaked moments in sports history - from Monthly bill Russell's renowned "Coleman Play" in the 1957 NBA Finals to Barcelona's "Figo Game" against Real Madrid in 2000 - The Captain School doesn't just bring these happenings alive; it presents a brand new, counterintuitive take on leadership that can be applied to a wide spectrum of competitive disciplines. The women and men who constitute the Captain School were never the most skilled athletes, nor were they gifted orators or paragons of sportsmanship. These were often role players who had been allergic to the limelight. In a nutshell, the seven attributes they shared issue your assumptions of what encouraged leadership appears like.
