Do you ever wonder why some sports teams do better than others, despite having the best talent from around the league?
In history, some of the sports teams that had high salary caps and brought on a lot of great superstars in an attempt to build a stacked lineup – did not always do well. Most of the time, they lost early in the playoffs, or at times didn’t even make the playoffs.
Superstar players don’t always result in a superstar team. One of the reasons may be that it’s one thing to have star power, but if the players don’t mesh well, it’s useless.
Despite this fact, many leaders in business or sports still continue to prioritize talent and experience over potential, chemistry, and system.
If you’re looking for the formula on how to build your team in a noisy world, then this episode is for you.
Del Leonard Jones
“You’ve got to have the star players and you reward them by paying more, but they need to be humble and expect them to be good team players and not prima donnas.”
Mr. Del Leonard Jones is a novelist and former reporter with a career spanning 18 years at USA Today. Mr. Jones wrote more than 300 cover stories at USA Today and received a Pulitzer Prize nomination for beat reporting.
He covered the corporate management money section, worked with thousands of CEOs, and wrote more cover stories than any other USA today reporter in any section – Selected twice as USA Today Enterprise All-Star reporter.
Recently Mr. Jones wrote two novels. “The Cremation of Sam McGee” and “At the Bat: The Strikeout that Shamed America”. The latter ranked #9 on Goodreads list of 112 greatest baseball novels of all time. You can find “At the Bat” on Amazon – just search “Strikeout” on Amazon.
He also officiates high school and collegiate sports in the Washington D.C. area.
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Also, watch his Sports to Business podcast series to understand how you can apply sports principles to business. In this series, Tanvir sits down with former athletes from CFL/NFL football players to Olympians, and share their business transformation stories with you
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