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Accomplishment

How to Achieve Ambitious and Challenging Things

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Michael Barber has spent many years advising governments, businesses and major sporting teams around the world on how to achieve ambitious goals on time. In this book he applies the wisdom he has gained from dealing with large, complex organizations and elite athletes to help anyone tackle their most challenging goals.

Drawing on the stories of historic visionaries and modern heroes - from Galileo to Rosa Parks, Harold Macmillan to Paula Radcliffe - Barber uses personal anecdote and proven strategy to map the route to success and navigate the difficulties that arise along the way.

Whatever it is that you aspire to do - run a marathon, transform a school or provide a business of public service to millions - this book will inspire you to get going and to bridge the gap between hope and reality.

© Michael Barber 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

 Career Success Management & Leadership Personal Development Personal Success Project Management Business Inspiring Leadership Management

Critic reviews

Full of unexpected insights and personal anecdotes . . . Sir Michael is a quietly inspirational leader (John Rentoul)
An excellent analysis that reveals that high accomplishment has a signature pattern that reoccurs from sport to politics to business to government. Few people are better placed to describe this pattern than Michael Barber - who has stellar achievements in all these fields (Matthew Syed)
All stars
Most relevant
Hugely insightful at times but the recycling of the Sky/British cycling/marginal gains/Brailsford story feels very dated and has been told in too many similar books already.

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A must listen / read for anyone wanting to achieve anything of significance in their life.

One of the most important books you’ll ever listen to / read!

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This is a fantastic book for anybody who wishes to develop a blue print for achievement. A must read.

Brilliant

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