Sam Walker is deputy editor for enterprise at the Wall Street Journal. He was previously the global sports editor, having founded the sports desk in 2009, where he headed up a team that handled every sporting event there is. Under him, the desk won more than a dozen journalism prizes and received two Pulitzer Prize nominations. Sam is also the author of Fantasyland (2006) which was turned into a documentary. He lives in New York with his wife and two children.
A remarkable book, one that articulates much of what you feel about
great teams but have perhaps been afraid to express…
*The Sunday Times*
One of THE sports books that I think will soon be in every
manager’s office.
*Simon Mayo Show, BBC Radio 2*
A fascinating new body of research about greatness in a sports
team.
*Daily Telegraph*
In The Captain Class, Sam Walker gives us important and original
insights into the mysterious ingredients of transformative
leadership. A stunning mix of research and narrative.
*Susan Cain, No.1 New York Times bestselling author of Quiet*
Wonderfully strange and absorbing… Informative, persuasive and
great fun for anyone not only with a passing interest in sport but
in mankind.
*Irish Times*
Over the years, many books have promised to reveal the secret of
building successful teams. But now Sam Walker has actually gone and
done it. An idea-driven, myth-busting gem of a book.
*Dan Coyle, New York Times bestselling author of The Talent Code
and The Secret Race*
Sam Walker has unlocked one of sports’ greatest mysteries. The
Captain Class is one of the most surprising, best-written—and
fun—sports books published in recent years.
*Don Van Natta Jr, Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times
bestselling author*
The Captain Class is a brilliant hybrid: one part detective story
and one part leadership book, dedicated to a fascinating mystery:
What sets apart the greatest teams of all time? I couldn't put it
down.
*Dan Heath, co-author of the New York Times bestseller Made to
Stick*
Well-researched, wildly entertaining, and thought-provoking. In The
Captain Class, Sam Walker presents compelling narratives about the
secret ingredient to the greatest teams of all time – and quickly
has the reader reexamining long-held beliefs about leadership and
the glue that binds winning teams together.
*Theo Epstein, president of baseball operations for the Chicago
Cubs*
The examples in Walker's book are striking. There’s a temptation
for captains to conform to the accepted stereotype of what a heroic
leader should be. Walker’s book utterly—and rightly in my
view—dispels that notion. The leaders he analyses were the opposite
of what you might imagine a leader to be.
*Mike Atherton, former captain, England cricket team*
The most fabulous book on freakish sporting success and leadership
traits commonly shared across the greatest teams of all time. I
thoroughly recommend it.
*Rich Buchanan, Performance Director, Swansea City FC*
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