Better Humans, Better Performance: Driving Leadership, Teamwork, and Culture with Intentionality

TEAMWORK

It is the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) that those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.¹

—CHARLES DARWIN

This is a story about teamwork that involves two really different types of leaders, both of whom were devoted to high-performing teamwork: Navy SEAL instructors and professional baseball coaches. Between deployments, SEAL instructors train SEAL cadets. Professional baseball coaches have played the game at a high level and now coach minor and major league baseball players. In 2020, both teams came to the Cleveland Major League Baseball spring training in Goodyear, Arizona, to ...