Building Winning Teams Is Rocket Science

There are some very valuable takeaways in this article by Mathew Syed.

But read it from a different perspective than intended.

Read it from the perspective of professional sports backroom teams & the reductionist approach that supports the silo mentality.

"The problem was not technology; it was collaboration. Each country was working in isolation, in national cliques"

You can replace 'Edlo' with most sport backroom teams

“Each country sought to maximise its own economic advantages, which often meant withholding information.”

Sound familiar?

“Each country sought to maximise its own economic advantages, which often meant withholding information.”“Togetherness is not just a nice concept that you can take or leave according to taste. If you don’t have it, you are nothing. Selfishness, factionalism, cliquishness are all death to a football team.” - Alex Ferguson

Learn lessons from rocket scientists.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/if-england-are-to-succeed-southgate-must-root-out-cliques-within-his-squad-97dx2xnqs