CHAPTER 16Losing Your Way
Be so good they can’t ignore you!
–STEVE MARTIN
NO MATTER where you live around the world, you can’t help but notice that it is considered a remarkable feat when your local professional sports club wins the league championship. No matter the sport, when the champ takes home the trophy, we know that it is quite an accomplishment. One question that has always bothered me though is why so few of the teams that win their sports’ highest award actually repeat that win the following year. There are very few back-to-back champions. When you look at the last 100+ years of sports competition, no matter what country you are from, there are very few teams that repeat as champions in their league. What makes it so difficult for ...
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