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What do the NHL’s Detroit Red Wings and Toyota have in common?

Much more than you may think.

Winning sporting teams and businesses share many traits, explains sports psychologist Saul Miller.

Whether you are manufacturing award-winning cars or pursuing the Stanley Cup, the bottom-line results are what matters most.

“You win or you lose, you’re in the black or the red,” Miller explains.

Miller, who has worked with clients ranging from the New York Mets and Los Angeles Rams to Sony and Telus, has recently published a book called Why Teams Win: Keys to Success in Business, Sport and Beyond.

The idea for the book came after Miller, a North Vancouver resident, had been at the rink working with the NHL’s Nashville Predators during a playoff-spot run and the US curling team as they prepared for Olympic qualification.

When he returned to Vancouver he was preparing for a business meeting with a financial company when he began jotting down a list of the underpinning qualities needed for success. The parallels between success in the business world and sports arena became instantly clear.

“There really are a lot of parallels. The status quo is never good enough,” explains Miller of achieving greatness, on the ice, or in the boardroom.

Toyota, for instance, uses a unique word “Kaizen” – which means “commitment to continuos improvement,” explained Miller.

And the same goes for the Detroit Red Wings and every other sports team: there’s a continuous push to improve results. And salespeople, just like top scorers, can’t rely on last year’s numbers.

Of course, as Wings GM Ken Holland notes in Miller’s book, you must “have good people.”

While Miller wrote his latest book he continued his hectic schedule coaching teams and business people from China to Medicine Hat. As he noted recently during an interview in North Vancouver “it was a dynamic laboratory,” which allowed him to glean the shared traits of success in the sports and business worlds. In his book, Miller outlines the nine qualities of winning teams: a sense of purpose; a meaningful goal; talent; leadership; strategic plan; commitment; feedback; confidence; chemistry; and identity.

And whether you are a CEO, GM or salesperson or left-winger, the keys to success are the same.

“It’s a blueprint for success,” says Miller of the book.