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What the Blue Jays taught us about a high-performing team culture (Part 2 of 3)

It’s December now. The baseball season is over. The emotions have settled. This is the moment great teams use to reflect and not reset blindly.  Looking back on the Blue Jays’ World Series run, one truth stands out: talent got them far, but systems got them that far. What separated this team wasn’t star power, it was how effectively individual strengths were aligned, coordinated, and converted into execution. High-performing teams don’t rely on heroic effort. They build an environment that allow people to succeed together under pressure. In this second part of the series, we step back from the scoreboard and examine how the Jays transformed raw talent into cohesive performance and why this is where many delivery teams may unknowingly stall. High-performing teams shift from “Positions” to “Purpose” Baseball defines positions clearly, pitcher, catcher, shortstop but what elevates teams like the Jays is that every player understands their purpose within the inning, within the game...