> Me: > The odd thing is, I agree with you too. I know from the competitions I've > cited that I played in, for example, that a good team captain was _the_ > critical component to winning games. But, in the case of baseball, my > problem with the team chemistry argument is that it's analytically useless.
Bob: But that is the point. You may not be able to analyze it but you may be able to recognize it and know how to create it. In any organization, one of the most important skills of a leader is the ability to put together a good team. To recognize who the key players in establishing a good work attitude are. To recognize that Jeter or Bird or Jordan is someone who makes everyone better. Me: You might be able to, I suppose, but I'm not aware of any GMs who are able to do it consistently. The ones who have been the most consistently successful have done the opposite - they've ignored things like that in favor of empirical data. Gautam
