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*
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