If your team is winning, you may not be analyzing so much why. However, you can be assured the coaches/ leaders have put plenty of thought, time, and effort into the needed ingredients to be really successful . Coaches, the really great ones, have a unique approach to being successful that many fellow coaches only pay lip service to. The really great CEO’s or leaders of any successful team organization all have this leadership quality and understanding. What is this success secret of successful team organizations or successful leaders or coaches?

Everyone will say the best team has the best players and or the best scheme/plan and maybe even the best coach/leader. In college that means whoever recruits the best and isn’t a complete idiot with the x’s and o’s will always be at the top. Now we know that isn’t really the case. In the pro’s the team that drafts or pays the most for the best athletes should always be at the top, but again we know quite often that does not happen. Why is that? What do the consistently successful great coaches, consistently successful team organizations, or outstanding business teams have that others do not?
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Yes, they will have a fair share of athletes, big enough, strong enough, and fast enough. Most business teams have a fair amount of intellectual talent. But now days almost everybody has that in business, college teams, or the professional sports teams. The margin of difference is very small in modern day business and athletics. So what do these special leaders or coaches do or have or know that the others do not?

The great ones in any really consistently successful team organization understand and then model, teach, and demand of themselves and others that the goals of the team or organization are far more important than the individual’s goals. Since it takes more than one person to achieve anything of substance in all team endeavors, then this believing in the team goal or team goals more than the individual goal is vitally important to successfully achieve great things. What makes this so hard ? Our society has been moving more and more towards individualism and what is good for the individual is all that counts. If you are an NFL fan, are you thinking about the Dallas Cowboys about now or the New York Yankees in major league baseball? The other secret ,which is huge, is these special leaders know they must get the group of individuals that make up their teams to really care about each other. Some would even say love each other.

Great football teams, great business organizations, and great military teams all have these two critical elements permeate throughout their group. Yes, ability, but more than that, a strong belief in the goals of the team and a genuine caring for each other to the point of never wanting to be the one to let the other team members down. Yes, truly successful team organizations accomplish these two tasks consistently in the culture of their day to day operations. They live the team goals, walk them, talk them, and execute them. Business and sports organizations that are great on a regular basis have a team full of talent that has been screened for their capacity to care for or love others and great success under that climate is certainly then within reach.

Does your team have these critically important success qualities?

Does your leader have this unique understanding of what it takes to be above average?

Who are some of these great coaches or leaders and can you learn from them?

Let us know who you believe to be great leaders who have consistently been a part of successful organizations either in business or in sports.