When there are too many stars on the team there are diminishing returns. There is no one to do the grunt work, everyone wants to take the winning shot.

The heat were not successful until Shane Battier came to the team and started doing the stuff LeBron, Dwayne and Bosh didn’t want to do.

3 ways to make the team better

1. Acknowledge your own weaknesses and improve on them
2. Appreciate others strengths, give credit where it’s due, and highlight the teams success over your own
3. Show openness to learning from others

Moral elevation is what we feel when we help someone. It is contagious and can spread throughout the team.

Emotion is contagious and spreads throughout a team and organization.

Make meetings short, make sure they start and end on time, make sure the right people are there, and make sure everyone is prepared.

Character and culture can compensate for lack of talent to a certain degree. Put the team above yourself.

Live outside the professional arena to stay humble and grounded. Humility is a vital character trait to success.