Larry Weidel uses Secretariat's 1973 Triple Crown win, including a 33-length Belmont victory, to show why elite performance requires a team of 13 people in defined roles. From grooms to veterinarians to the jockey, each person had to do their job so the star could perform.
Foreign Secretariat. Secretariat, greatest racehorse of all time. Won the triple crown by 33 lengths. Watch the movie. It's incredible. Won the last leg, the Belmont. That was the longest race, the one they had the biggest doubts about. Thought he wasn't going to be strong enough. Oh, he was strong enough. He won it by 33 lengths. But you hear the thing, teamwork. Nothing great in life happens without a team. You need a team to do anything great. This is a great little case study for teamwork and the structure of a team to do anything great. See what you have on the team. See, they said it took 13, even though he won it. It took 13 people to get him in the gate, to get him dressed, fed, ready to go, healthy, trained, get him to the gate. And then of course, he did take one one along with him for the ride. But I think most people think Secretariat could have probably done it without a lot of help from the jockey. So what are these 13 people? It's. It also shows you the dynamic. You have the grooms, you have the veterinarians, veterans, you have the farriers, which horse you guys, you have this miscellaneous grooms that work with them, that you know the lead amount. You have the practice writers. There's another word for that, but I've drawn a blank right now. The people who write them, the workout riders, you have the trainer, of course, you've got the owner, you have the jockey. Add those up, folks, and then you have the people that you know drive them to the track and all of those things. On his team, there was 13 people. But look at this. This is pretty much the way every successful team will go. There will be one star. You'll have one person or one animal in this case, that's a star. The leader, the CEO, the LeBron James, the Michael Jordan, the Tiger woods, the person in charge, that, who, the spotlight, the quarterback. The spotlight gets on the star. Then you'll have the supporting cast. Now, usually you'll have two to three people in that inside group. Most even, even revolutions that, where you run countries, the insider group will be two to three people because you just don't have time during the course of the day as things come up to check with 12 people. But you'll have like, you'll have one person of the center, you'll have the little core group. But then you'll have the extra circle around there and you add, you know, the people that get involved and do other things. But the decision makers, the key people, the people who hammer down when it's performance time, those are the ones. Everything here is geared towards helping them perform the right way at the right time and take pressure off their back. And so that's a support team around. But at the core, it's very simple. It's very. It comes down to a few people, but it's very clear. The roles are clear. Everything. Their jobs are well defined. They have. Everything they do comes into play if they drop the ball. So everything. Everybody's important, but everybody's important doing their job. We're not going to have success if the honor medals with a trainer and the jockey starts going in there and fooling with a groom and starts telling them how, what he thinks they need to be on feeding. And everybody interferes with the vet. Everybody's got to do their job. But then it all comes together and it's all a waste of time. If the star is not a star when it comes showtime, that star's got to deliver. But that doesn't make the star any more important really than everybody else. It just. Everything comes together around the star. And so at that moment, they're the most important. So, folks, that's the teamwork. And that's why it took 13 people to get Secretariat in the gate. Even though Secretariat won by 33 links without the trainer, without the support, without the owner and all of that, the right jockey, he doesn't win by 33 lengths. He might, might not even want at all. So think about that when you come to putting together your teams. Secretariat needed a team of 13 people to get in that gate and then he delivered lots of lessons about teamwork. There anything else you noticed that I missed? Put in the comment section. You have any questions or anything like that, let me know down there as well, join our subscriber list if you haven't and come visit us over on whitel on winning dot com. And do me a favor, do it big. We need you to be big, folks. The world needs you to be big. Sa.
