A successful team is built through shared goals, open collaboration between management and coaching, and a collective understanding of what kind of players fit the team's culture.

“it's not that's not brain surgery you got to work together it's hard enough and and but those you know things like that that Mahomes lost I mean it makes you go back and say okay we got to get better as good as that team wants we've got to find a way to get better”

Empowering team members with ownership of their own destiny is more effective for performance than a dictatorial coaching style.

“we were human will perform better and respond better with a little bit of ownership over what they're doing so you know sport was very much a dictate and control kind of coaching model really and management model”

Building a team with shared goals and a network of community support is essential for safely attempting big wave surfing projects.

“I mean what I took from it was that you really invested like you're like the only way this is ever going to work is if I build a team and a network and generate community and consensus around this massive goal that I have”

The quality of life and business performance is directly tied to the strength of interpersonal relationships, which require conscious effort and space to maintain.

“The reason I focus on interpersonal dynamics is because the quality of our relationships determines the quality of our life. I really believe that. And if you cannot have conflict, you can't have healthy relationships.”

Success in team building relies on acquiring players who fit well together, prioritize the team over individual metrics, and have the right character.

“my only background is in coaching and how teams function together so we try to make it as as easy for a team to to complement one another to bring out the best to one another and for you know the coaches to you know have a group that you can easily create roles and role definition around”

He asserts that successful teams require individuals to move beyond ego and prioritize the collective unit over their own personal status.

“And that's what rowing does is you're choosing to give up that. And that's not an easy thing to do for type a personalities and highly competitive people.”

A team can only achieve success if individual players prioritize the team's needs over personal accomplishments or ego.

“what you realize is that when you're playing on a team and you're in a team format nothing is about you as an individual it's all about what's best for the team and your time is not your own it's a team's time and you have to be respectful of that”