Daniel Coyle

The Talent Code went looking for where talent clusters and found tennis in one Moscow court, music in one Dallas school, football on particular Brazilian pitches, and asked what those places share.

His answer is deep practice at the edge of ability, a coach who intervenes precisely, and myelin thickening around heavily used circuits. The neuroscience is the shakiest part and has been questioned.

The Culture Code, later, is the better book, on how groups build safety and shared purpose, and the chapter on how the best teams handle bad news is the one people quote.