Fans move on but high-performing teams don’t. The off-season is where championships are shaped. Not by playing more games, but by deciding what carries forward and what gets left behind. It’s a deliberate pause to reflect, adapt, and evolve before the next season begins. For delivery teams, December plays the same role. It’s a chance to convert lessons into lasting habits, strengthen resilience, and enter the new year with intention instead of momentum hangover. I’m especially grateful I got to witness part of this story in person. I was in the stadium for the Blue Jays’ final game against the New York Yankees as they closed out the American League Division Series and advanced. Being there, you could feel it: the trust, the composure, the belief. Not just from the players, but from the entire organization.  It wasn’t just a win. It was a statement. And it reinforced something I’ve been writing about throughout this series, high-performing teams don’t rise to the moment, they rely ...

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...