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The Art of Winning: Lessons learned by one of the world’s top sportsmen
Dan Carter is a widely hailed as one of the most elite and successful professional rugby players in the world. After retiring from a sport he played for 32 years, he set out to inspire the next generation of leaders to create purposeful impact, joining the Oxford Foundry - Oxford University's Entrepreneurial Institute, founded by LinkedIn co-found Reid Hoffman - as its first ever Leader in Practice. Now, in a follow-up to his bestselling 2015 autobiography, he answers timeless questions for aspiring leaders everywhere. Why is the team more important than the individual? How do you navigate the transition from player to leader? How should we respond when confidence is eclipsed by doubt, when circumstances get the better of us, when setbacks derail us? How can we remain humble and grounded when we're winning - and how can we keep on winning, even when a loss may be just around the corner?
320 pages, Hardcover
Published October 15, 2023
About the author
Dan Carter
26 books2 followersDaniel William Carter is a New Zealand rugby union player.
Carter plays for Kobelco Steelers in Japan and played for New Zealand's national team, the All Blacks. He is the highest point scorer in test match rugby, and is considered by many experts as the greatest ever first five-eighth (fly-half) in the history of the game. He was named the International Rugby Board Player of the Year in 2005, 2012 and 2015 (equaling the record three awards of Richie McCaw) and has won three Super Rugby titles with the Crusaders, and nine Tri-Nations and Rugby Championships with the All Blacks.
Carter injured himself during the 2011 Rugby World Cup but was a key member of the 2015 Rugby World Cup-winning teams, becoming one of 20 players to have won multiple Rugby World Cups. In the 2015 Rugby World Cup Final against Australia, he kicked four penalties, two conversions and a drop goal, and was named the man of the match.
Carter plays for Kobelco Steelers in Japan and played for New Zealand's national team, the All Blacks. He is the highest point scorer in test match rugby, and is considered by many experts as the greatest ever first five-eighth (fly-half) in the history of the game. He was named the International Rugby Board Player of the Year in 2005, 2012 and 2015 (equaling the record three awards of Richie McCaw) and has won three Super Rugby titles with the Crusaders, and nine Tri-Nations and Rugby Championships with the All Blacks.
Carter injured himself during the 2011 Rugby World Cup but was a key member of the 2015 Rugby World Cup-winning teams, becoming one of 20 players to have won multiple Rugby World Cups. In the 2015 Rugby World Cup Final against Australia, he kicked four penalties, two conversions and a drop goal, and was named the man of the match.
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July 31, 2023
One of the greatest rugby players of all time and All Black, shares the leadership lessons that took him and the team to the pinnacle of their sport. If you’ve read the book Legacy, it certainly builds on some of the points raised in that book. Is it revolutionary thinking? Probably not, but what you do get here is the insight of how Dan Carter applied it and in some parts of the book, he really does open himself up and you learn something new about him.
August 29, 2023
This is a very interesting read. The lessons and antidotes Carter includes are great. He truly delivers a book full of hints and tip of how to grow your leadership skills and the importance to being part of a team. It may not be groundbreaking and new approach to leadership but Carter gives you a solid view on how to apply it and how it helped to become the best fly-half rugby player of all time.
There is a lot of vulnerability and shows how even with success, failure or disappointment is always there. It takes guts to admit that despite being one of the best rugby players and one of the best leaders in the game of rugby for 18 years, he still felt like he was an impostor and doesn’t have the right to be able to talk about leadership.
This books build further on from his Dan Carter: My Story book from a few years back and delves away from the personal and physical side to focus on teamwork in this book.
There is a lot of vulnerability and shows how even with success, failure or disappointment is always there. It takes guts to admit that despite being one of the best rugby players and one of the best leaders in the game of rugby for 18 years, he still felt like he was an impostor and doesn’t have the right to be able to talk about leadership.
This books build further on from his Dan Carter: My Story book from a few years back and delves away from the personal and physical side to focus on teamwork in this book.
January 18, 2024
Some useful lessons to take away and very interesting to know what was going on in his mind when competing
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