If we are talking on sportswriters there is one person who i always love for his honest opinion and straight from heart approach and for his Slapstick and sarcastic humor. It's none other than Bill Simmons. One of the top sports writers in USA.
A specific area of his writing which i was admired was his creation of the "Patrick Ewing theory"
On the outlay it looks it makes absolute no sense as it talks about the team morale after losing a star most of them should go down and depressed but it rather points out at how teams often perform better because there is no burden of a star and having to play with the star.
Its more so often when you have a star the team depends on him to perform and everyone may not come up with their true skills and may not perform to their max. potential but without a recognized star the following things can happen
1) All the players can consider themselves integral and have to step up their effort
2) There is a huge strength when playing without a Star as he he/she can draw the major spotlight and thus if the team feels dependent on one individual they can go down but here everyone play out of their skin thus it may not be easy to identify who will step up for the day
3) The team is motivated to fight as everyone has written them off
4) The fearlessness of every individual will make the team better on most of the occasions
I think the easiest example for us people to relate would be the T-20 world cup in South Africa where the team won the World Cup without it’s so called big stars led by a rookie captain and players who were on the fringes of the squad and people who were making comeback a package which proved unstoppable on its day.
The best part about this theory is that it speaks volume on how a team needs to be. In today's context when organizations prefer teams working on key projects this rule could shape up things.
There have been organizations which i know have tried to implement the normal grading system inside a team. In a hypothetical world this theory could put normal grading even in a team to find out the high performers and the non performers but if there is a team which is working on this level then there is a problem. The high performer of a team could be a relative high performer among other while if we compare the other high performers they may not be of that level. Thus this creates controversy for high performing teams
It’s a great topic for discussion!! And am waiting for eager responses for or against it :)
Cheers
Arvind !!
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