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The Captain Class : the Hidden Force That Creates the World's Greatest Teams by Sam Walker, (Newspaper editor) is a business book available to read on EtoBox.

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**The founding editor of __The Wall Street Journal__’s sports section profiles the greatest teams in history and identifies the counterintuitive leadership qualities of the unconventional men and women who drove them to succeed.**__The secret to winning 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.__ Several years ago, Sam Walker set out to answer one of the most hotly debated questions in sports: What are the greatest teams of all time? He devised a formula, then applied it to thousands of teams from leagues all over the world, from the NBA to the English Premier League to Olympic field hockey. When he was done, he had a list of the sixteen most dominant teams in history. At that point, he became obsessed with another, more complicated question: What did these freak teams have in __common__? As Walker dug into their stories, a pattern emerged: Each team had the same type of captain—a singular leader with an unconventional skill set who drove it to achieve sustained, historic greatness. Fueled by a lifetime of sports spectating, twenty years of reporting, and a decade of painstaking re

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It is typically read by working professionals who need an authoritative practice reference.

Common subject areas: medicine, law, business, engineering.

Author
Sam Walker, (Newspaper editor)
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Published
2017
Language
EN
ISBN
9780399591198
Category
business
Subjects
Business, Anthropology, Psychology
Rating
4.02 / 5 (299 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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