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The founding editor ofThe Wall Street Journal'ssports section profiles the greatest teams in history and identifies the counterintuitive leadership qualities of the unconventional men and women who drove them to succeed. The secret to winning is not what you think it is. It's not the coach. It's not the star. It's not money. It's not a strategy. It's something else entirely. Several years ago, Sam Walker set out to answer one of the most hotly debated questions in sports: What are the greatest teams of all time He devised a formula, then applied it to thousands of teams from leagues all over the world, from the NBA to the English Premier League to Olympic field hockey. When he was done, he had a list of the sixteen most dominant teams in history. At that point, he became obsessed with another, more complicated question: What did these freak teams have in common As Walker dug into their stories, a pattern emerged: Each team had the same type of captain - a singular leader with an unconventional skill set who drove it to achieve sustained, historic greatness.
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Sam Walker is The Wall Street Journal's deputy editor for enterprise, the unit that oversees the paper's in-depth page-one features and investigative reporting projects. A former reporter, columnist, and sports editor, Walker founded the Journal's prizewinning daily sports coverage in 2009. He is the author of Fantasyland, a bestselling account of his attempt to win America's top fantasy baseball expert competition (of which he is a two-time champion) . Walker attended the University of Michigan. He lives in New York City with his wife and two children.
