The top team must be ready to make people choices quickly and facilitate team-building.
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Staying the top team is an infinitely more difficult job than becoming one.
Meanwhile, you must be adept at the human, relational aspects of leading the top team and interacting with all stakeholders.
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In the East, the top team had 65% of those points and the bottom team had 44% of those points.
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Rask is 6-1-1 with a 1.97 goals-against average for Boston, the top team in the Eastern Conference as play began on Thursday.
Louis Gerstner Jr. took over an ailing IBM five years ago and axed 32, 000 jobs but kept in place most of the top team.
"It's can't get better than this - beating the top team in the world, " said Dhoni after the nine-run win in Brisbane that sealed the series victory.
The nation's oldest hockey program embraced the roll of underdog against the surging Bobcats, who have gone from Division III afterthought to the top team in the country in less than two decades.
The bottom four would play each other home and away in a relegation play-off pool, with the last-placed team after six rounds of matches switching divisions with the top team from the third tier, which would be renamed National Division One.
For the past 21 months India had been the top Test team in the world.
And Alan Pardew's team became only the fourth top-flight team since the formation of the Premier League to lose to fourth-tier opposition after Everton, West Ham and Fulham.
And QPR will take plenty of comfort from the fact that the team top of the second tier of English football going into January has won promotion to the top flight in all but two of the last 19 years.
There is no doubt that the top Argentina team on paper will be a match for any side in Korea and Japan.
So much so that Ian Chappel is wondering how India remained the top Test team so far, saying that that its feeble bowling attack made it a "squatter rather than an owner" of the crown.
Quinnipiac (29-7-5), the regular-season ECAC champions and the top-ranked team in the nation, takes on St.
In 2010, the Jayhawks were the top-ranked team in the nation when they fell in the second round to Northern Iowa.
After all, they are the top-seeded team in the Eastern Conference, and the Islanders barely qualified for their first postseason appearance in six years.
The Penguins, the top-seeded team in the Eastern Conference, were expected to beat the eighth-seeded Islanders, who were making their first playoff appearance in six years.
Now, the hockey-crazed country is left with only the seventh-seeded Senators going against one of the country's own, Sidney Crosby, and the Penguins, the top-seeded team in the East.
And Ohio State is the top-ranked team in the country, a relatively easy driving distance to Newark, and their fans will do anything right now to forget the troubles of the Buckeye football program.
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While the Big East champion Cardinals surged to the top of the 68-team bracket released Sunday, joined by fellow No. 1 seeds Kansas, Indiana and Gonzaga, the team that won it all a year ago was left out of the field.
The top three finishers advance to the World Cup in Brazil next June, while the fourth-place team faces the top finisher in Oceania's confederation, likely to be New Zealand.
Indiana is the latest top-ranked team from the preseason to fall short of the Final Four.
The student section was right on top of the visiting team's bench.
Davis, a 6-foot-10 power forward who led Kentucky to a NCAA national championship this year, is believed to be the top prospect for any team who wins the first pick in the NBA draft.
Germany's Bundesliga has two teams going up and down, with a play-off match between the third-bottom and third-top team from the first and second divisions.
The existing one automatic promotion place would be supplemented by play-offs between the ninth-placed team in the top tier and three teams in the second tier.
The BBC's top team will be in Cardiff to convey all the action and drama from this year's FA Cup final.
Notre Dame was the top selling college team on Fanatics.com on October 14 (the day after it beat Stanford).
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Should South Africa win at the Waca, they will usurp Australia at the top of the one-day team world rankings.
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