1: That they are happy, lighthearted places.

Highly successful workplace cultures “are energized and engaged, but at their core their members are oriented less around achieving happiness than around solving hard problems together,” Daniel Coyle writes in The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups.

High-performing teams embrace “many moments of high-candor feedback” and “uncomfortable truth-telling,” Daniel writes. 

Exhibit one: The San Antonio Spurs and their Head Coach … continue reading

1: The San Antonio Spurs are the most successful team in American sports in the past 25 years, Daniel Coyle writes in The Culture Code.

They’ve won “five championships and a higher percentage of games than the New England Patriots, the St. Louis Cardinals, or any other storied franchise,” he notes.

When asked what was the greatest moment of team cohesion, Spurs players and coaches all agree on one … continue reading

1: That was all writer Neil Paine could think of to say.

Neil’s a numbers guy. He had formulated an algorithm to determine who was the best NBA coach ever, analyzing “player performance metrics to predict how many games a team should win,” Daniel Coyle writes in The Culture Code.

“The vast majority of NBA coaches win roughly the number of games they should win, given their players’ abilities,” … continue reading