CHAPTER FOUR TAKEAWAYS • One of the first lessons we learn as children is to respect authority. We imbue our parents, and our teachers, with special powers. We believe it’s up to them to mold us. Sports fans project the same idea onto coaches. The conventional wisdom is that the coach, rather than the athletes who compete, is the primary force behind a team’s success. On an elite team, therefore, the coach must be a special kind of genius. On the sixteen teams in Tier One, this was simply not the case. • That said, there are coaches who seem to possess some dollop of magic. They have shown the
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