Captain Class

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1. roguecoderSep 2025
   For an alternative perspective, I recommend the business book The Captain Class.

   If you aren't making your teammates better, and they aren't making you better, you will never be able to be as good as a team that is greater than the sum of its parts. Individual genius is consistently beat by professional collaboration.

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2. dtjohnnybSep 2022
   "The Captain Class" is a great book that glorifies the "water carriers" of a bunch of successful sporting dynasties.

   It certainly gave me a lot of encouragement to try to develop more of the traits shown by those great captains.

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3. gbersacDec 2019
   The best definition of what's a good leader is found in the book "the captain class" : https://www.amazon.com/Captain-Class-Hidden-Behind-Greatest/...

   What's interesting is that the author have a data oriented strategy to find a good definition of a leader: he processed a lot of data to find which teams had really exceptionnal success IN THE HISTORY OF ALL SPORTS.

   When he found the 8 teams with the most exceptionnal success, he looked for what they share. He found that all of those exceptionnal team success coincide with the arrival and departure of a captain.

   Then he looked for shared trait between all those captain. What he found is the best definition of a leader.

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