The Captain Class: The Hidden Force that Creates the World's Greatest Teams
- ISBN-10
- 0812997190
- ISBN-13
- 9780812997194
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 353
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017
- Author
- Sam Walker
Description
"The captain class" draws on a lifetime of sports spectatorship and two decades of sports reporting to tell the surprising story of what makes teams exceptional. Sam Walker had been searching for the sporting holy grail, a unifying theory of what makes teams win when he discovered certain similarities in cases of sustained greatness in teams across a number of sports. They were all lead by a certain type of captain, but not one with the characteristics you might expect. They were unorthodox outliers - disagreeable, marginally skilled, hot-headed, occasionally unhinged, athletically sub-par, poor verbal communicators, while off the field they were private loners who avoided the limelight
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- 2018-05-01
- 370 pages
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