5/15/2023 0 Comments The captain classWalker could not point at either of them as the linking pin between all teams in Tier 1 (called the Alpha Lions). The quality of upper management \ institutional excellence.The level of overall talent in the team.The presence of a superstar in the team.He researched all probable causes that could have made these teams so successful: Once the most successful teams were identified, Walker started looking for a success-formula. Walker’s research exposes some very interesting lessons about leadership and creating successful teams. All teams that dominated for at least 4 consecutive seasons, winning every worldwide recognized competition. On this Tier 1-list are teams like the New Zealand All Blacks, the New York Yankees, Barcelona’s football team and the Soviet Unions ice hockey team. He ended up with no more than 16 teams (which he called the Tier 1 teams), marked worldwide as the best sports teams that ever existed. Measuring the success of these teams is almost impossible, since in most cases my data is lacking, incomplete or the teams no longer exist.įinding a pattern or formula is even more difficult without this measurement.Ī little frustrated by this dilemma, I started looking for different ways to answer them.Ī few months ago I was reading ‘The Captain Class’ by Sam Walker and I got really excited about his discovery!Īs the founding editor of The Wall Street Journal’s sports section, Walker had access to a large amount of data on the most dominant sports teams in history.įrom thousands of teams that ever won a title, he systematically eliminated those with some or incidental successes. I felt a growing desire to answer two questions: “Can I measure how successful these teams are?” and “Can I find a pattern or magic formula that explains this success?” My gut feeling tells me that only 5% of these teams can be classified as extremely successful. However, most of them never get to taste this kind of success. Every now and then these teams are awesome, highly energized and delivering high value products to their customers. In the last 18 years I worked with many software and leadership teams. It is based on research that Sam Walker (founding editor of the The Wall Street Journal’s sports section) published in 2017 in his book: ‘The Captain Class’. In this blog I will share a number of Leadership lessons from the World’s Greatest Sports Teams.
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