Sublime

what made Ben and the crew into a team as opposed to a collection of individuals? How did they get from being a rubbish team in 1998 to a gold medal winning one in 2000? Their strategies all boil down to two fundamentals: 1.Have a common goal 2.Agree how to behave around each other.

After the disastrous ‘98 World Championships in Cologne, the crew’s sports psychologist encouraged the crew to agree some rules actively. How are we going to make progress to gold as smooth and easy as possible? What is acceptable behaviour and what isn’t? If ‘rules’ sounds dull or restrictive, then call them team behaviours; team do’s and don’ts;

What makes the story of the Endurance so remarkable, however, is not the expedition, it’s that throughout the whole ordeal no one died. There were no stories of people eating others and no mutiny. This was not luck. This was because Shackleton hired good fits. He found the right men for the job. When you fill an organization with good fits, those w

To build the perfect sprint team, first you’re going to need a Danny Ocean: someone with authority to make decisions. That person is the Decider, a role so important we went ahead and capitalized it. The Decider is the official decision-maker for the project.

The British 8 won gold at Sydney by a margin of 0.8 seconds. When the margin between success and failure is that narrow, it’s no wonder they thought long and hard about what they could control. Ben: “You have to do everything because you don’t know what will make the difference.”