Everyone in sport (or business, for that matter) wants to win, right? But most people insist on "finding their own way" to the top. What if we instead looked to the great coaches who, time and again, walked away with a trophy at the end of the season?

We pay too much attention to the hot coach of the moment - the coach who's recently set a record or won the last championship. We're excited by the flash in the pan, even though slow cooking and turning out something delicious is much harder (perhaps a reach on the metaphor there, but you get the idea).

Yet, if we look hard enough, we can find evidence-backed methods for becoming a serial winner (see Lara-Bercial & Mallett, 2016). Though not a precise formula, there's a framework that requires three essential elements to at least give yourself a chance at sustained success:

• Vision

• People

• Environment