Tips to make your team a contender?

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Originally Posted by RoboChair

Work hard. Then work even harder.

Work until there is nothing left to work on, then work more.

Good start!

Work smarter as well as harder. Don't spend four hours building a system when fifteen minutes of number crunching might clue you in that it won't work. And don't spend four hours of number crunching when fifteen minutes of shop and practice time will give you an empirical answer. The smartest work is done when you know your team's capabilities well enough to quickly figure out the quickest way to do something.

Practice, practice, practice. This will make your work both better and faster.