All Blacks: A Case Study of a High Performance Team

The purpose of this paper is to identify the factors facilitating the functioning of a High Performance Team with the help of a real life secondary research (in the form of a case study) on the New Zealand National rugby union team also called the All Blacks. We will understand the concept of High Performance Teams (HPTs) and how certain factors differentiate from other teams and groups. We will then try to understand how the All Blacks rate on these factors based on the information available on the internet like interviews, books etc, and discuss what makes them a high performance team. This study can be useful for managers and employees, who aim to lead and be a part of high performance teams and impart insights about how to make a team an HPT.