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Lead Any Team to Win

Master the Essential Mindset to Motivate, Set Priorities, and Build Your Own Dynasty

Jason Selk, Tom Bartow and Matthew Rudy

Da Capo Press, 2018

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Whether you work for a giant corporation or own a company with a dozen workers, you’re part of a team. The question is, can your team achieve its goals? If it's hitting some roadblocks, authors Dr. Jason Selk and Tom Bartow (writing with journalist Matthew Rudy) can help. Selk is a performance coach for executives and professional athletes. Financial adviser Bartow is a former basketball coach. Together they offer information to help you better understand and manage the personalities on your team. The authors provide (along with great behind-the-scenes sports stories) a reliable nine-part strategy that – with work – will put your team on top.

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Consistently winning teams share nine specific practices.

You’ve heard it many times: A World Series MVP brags about his winning team, and so does the CEO whose company just had its best year. They all say, “It couldn’t have happened without the great team I have around me.” But how do these organizations routinely recruit, hire and develop the right people with diverse but complementary talents to form a consistently winning team?

The leaders of great teams also must manage big personalities despite their inevitable conflicts, secure high-level performances, and maintain the team’s momentum and quest for improvement even as people come and go. Such leaders consistently follow nine basic practices:

1. “Heed your channel capacity” – Set limits. Don’t overload your team.

Channel capacity is “the limited biological bandwidth of the human brain.” Recognizing your team’s capacity requires asking how much new information it can receive, absorb and transmit over time. Maintaining a reasonable team load includes not trying to change too much too fast. Overload is tempting: you see what...

About the Authors

Jason Selk is a performance coach for Fortune 500 executives and professional athletes in major league sports and NASCAR. Tom Bartow is a financial advisor and former college basketball coach. Golf Digest senior writer Matthew Rudy has authored or co-authored 23 golf, business and travel books.

Lead Any Team to Win

Master the Essential Mindset to Motivate, Set Priorities, and Build Your Own Dynasty

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Consistently winning teams share nine specific practices.

1. “Heed your channel capacity” – Set limits. Don’t overload your team.

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