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It was praised as an amazing and intellectual exercise, initially intended to list the best sports dynasties but ultimately focusing on the characteristics of successful captains. The author's shift in focus during writing was noted.
That book's so good.
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It was praised as an amazing and intellectual exercise, initially intended to list the best sports dynasties but ultimately focusing on the characteristics of successful captains. The author's shift in focus during writing was noted.
That book's so good.
That's one of my favorites.
He wrote the book to list the best dynasties of all time in sports.
And so he changed it and he wrote about The Captain's Class.
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It was mentioned as a book (or article) about leadership, suggesting that the best leaders often don't want to lead and are reluctant to take on such roles.
did you read that books that the captain's class by sam no what's his name uh oh we see that Wall Street general guy yes yeah or was it the wall street general yeah he wrote a piece and i think he's working on a book about it where it's it's called like the Eisenhower paradox or something which is that basically the best leaders don't want to be leaders yeah and that they are called to it in some way and they wrestle with whether they should do it or not and that it's the people who want it very badly that tend to do very badly but also um are the ones you should kind of be suspicious of
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It was highly recommended for its insightful look into successful sports teams, including the US women's national team, which the speaker viewed differently after reading it.
I was on his podcast and he recommended this book, The Captains Class by Sam Walker, which I absolutely loved.
And for whatever reason it wasn't until I read, actually I know what reason women's sports tends to get the short end of the stick in American culture. But I hadn't really thought of the US women's national team as one of the great dynasties of sports all time. And it very clearly is, very clearly was it remains an institution that a ton of people could learn from and I have seen that team totally differently from reading that book.
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The podcast mentioned this book, which explores leadership in sports, noting that the best teams often have unexpected captains, and how this relates to the qualities of effective leaders. The speaker indicated they believed the listener would enjoy the book.
have you have you read the captain's class by Sam Walker I think you would like that book a lot but it's a it's a great book about how often like the most the best teams have a captain who it's not who you think it was like Michael Jordan wasn't the captain of the bulls it was Bill Cartwright and that's the reason that they were able to do what they did but anyways he wrote another book or I think he's writing a book about it but he wrote an article about it it's about it was talking about Eisenhower like Eisenhower doesn't want to be president he's drafted like sort of called to be president and his point was that often the best leaders are people who don't want to be leaders like like it's not like they were like no give me the ball like I deserve to be in charge I'm better than all of you it's more the person who's like quietly working on their own stuff over here that everyone senses is capable of more and could do a really good job and the team kind of goes like we need more from you that's right that's what you want to be
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The book's central idea--that great teams often succeed due to less-talented individuals who cultivate strong team culture--was discussed. The host recommended this book to Tyler Cowen.
Have you read the book The Capins Class by Sam Walker?
I think he would really like his point is that often great teams are more than the sum of their parts not because of a transcendent star like say Michael Jordan but because Michael Jordan is on a team with Bill Cartwright that the captain of great teams or businesses is often a less well-known individual a less talented individual but is the person that binds the culture together and allows what might ordinarily be a dysfunctional trio or a collection of individuals to come together as an organization and that person is credible with the star as with the case with Cartwright but is not always the case