ByGeorge Bradt,
Senior Contributor.
Jimmy Spithill’s leadership lessons from the America’s Cup and SailGP show how no-blame, high-accountability cultures accelerate performance under pressure on water or in business.
Spithill, one of the world’s top sailors, has skippered two America’s Cup champions and now leads the RedBull Italy SailGP Team as CEO. His “performance-first, straight-talking, hands-on” leadership formula turns extreme complexity into speed, clarity, and results.
SailGP is to sailing what Formula 1 is to cars: condensed, high-stakes, and relentlessly fast. The 12 foiling catamarans in the league travel for weekends of racing at cities across the globe and fly over the water at 100 km/hour, with races lasting 10-15 minutes. Each six-person crew operates as one:
