NOBODY WINS ALONE – THE MAGIC OF TEAMWORK By PRAKASH IYER

What really makes a winning team?

We tend to celebrate success through individuals: the CEO who transformed a company, the entrepreneur who built a unicorn, the sportsperson who delivered the winning performance. But behind every visible winner is a network of people whose contribution rarely makes the headline. In Nobody Wins Alone: The Magic of Teamwork, bestselling author and leadership speaker Prakash Iyer turns the spotlight on these people and asks what actually separates a collection of talented individuals from a great team.

Drawing on three decades in corporate leadership, his experience with the Mumbai Indians during their title-winning 2015 IPL campaign, and his work with leadership teams, Iyer distils teamwork into eight essential principles: Trust, Engagement, Alignment, Mastery, Willingness, Openness, Resilience and Kaizen

Rather than approaching teamwork as management theory, Iyer tells 40 memorable stories from business, sport, science and everyday life. He looks at the unsung throwdown specialist behind India’s finest batters, how Mumbai Indians spotted a teenage Jasprit Bumrah, what Sir Alex Ferguson understood about making every employee feel valued, how Liverpool’s ball boy became part of a Champions League-winning moment, and what Pullela Gopichand’s journey reveals about creating champions rather than simply being one.

At a time when workplaces are grappling with silos, disengagement, difficult conversations, changing leadership styles and the challenge of getting talented people to work together, Nobody Wins Alone offers an accessible and highly relatable way to rethink leadership, workplace culture and what it means to be a great teammate.