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Never forgetting where you came from is about staying true to your key values, who you are deep down,” he says. As the 2023 Rugby World Cup goes into the finals, it's worth pausing to think about what happens to rugby players when they hang up their boots. Alongside this purpose, I had everything structured: training, meetings, nutrition, exercise, travel, doctors and health and wellbeing staff from across the spectrum, all laid on for me. 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. Through this process of repurposing, firstly through Kevin’s help and then with that of others and on my own, I have tried to establish my own set of beliefs and values, looking back through my life so far and finding what really resonated with me.
Plus, get an EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT until December 15, 2023 to ADAM GRANT LIVE on his new book Hidden Potential , and topics around work-life and work culture. So, instead of “retiring” he began a process of repurposing – where he established his own set of values and beliefs. 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?My confidence grew when organisations like AstraZeneca, who were trying to develop a Covid vaccine at the time, and a team at the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, part of the University of Oxford, wanted to hear my thoughts on managing pressure. During his 20-year career he broke several world records and scored the winning points in the 2015 Rugby World Cup final, earning him his third World Rugby Player of the Year Award and a second consecutive World Cup win for New Zealand. But it is still a huge social adjustment to make to my perceived “normal” life - similar to what I imagine those in the armed forces make when they retire from service. Ten timeless truths on leadership, purpose and potential - from the unique culture of the All Blacks, and the mind of a living legend. Dan's red-head response is to freeze, and in rugby games he would slap himself on the leg to remind himself to keep a blue head.
He also learned to demand excellence from others, and have the uncomfortable conversations that this entails. Having Growth Faculty membership grants your employees 12 months of unlimited access to masterclasses and interviews with world-class coaches and thought leaders, engaging events, networking opportunities and an on-demand library of leadership resources. We're continually sourcing the world's greatest minds for your business success, so subscribe today for event updates, business ideas, leadership tips and tools for growth. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). The Art of Winning" is more than just a sports memoir—it's a masterclass in perseverance, strategic thinking, and relentless pursuit of success.
I found the decision to retire so difficult, despite all my success, that it took an unprecedented set of global circumstances and the unvarnished truth from a 5-year-old boy to make me see that I was finding any excuse to keep playing to avoid retirement. From a spectacular career spanning almost three decades, these stories have become modern classics and are now for the first time collected in one volume. Dan says it is a powerful task for any organisation with a history to look back and examine what the past may teach or inspire its people into the future.
The Penguin-published book "The Art of Winning" is jam-packed with insights and experiences that can positively impact businesses, leaders, and people going through a change in their life or seeking self-improvement. Somehow, he has managed to satisfy multiple audiences and provided a book that could be a manual for both personal development and team development in a business environment, simultaneously providing a fascinating insight into the development of excellence by identifying how the All Blacks approached it over the last 20 years. Hearing this from my son, a 5-year-old whose only take is that he gets to have his dad around again, crystallised the thoughts that had been swirling around my head for years now. By now I knew the inevitable was just around the corner, and it was all about finishing on my terms. In the words of Mark Twain, many of us might say "I'm writing a novel" to which his sharp reply was "Neither am I".
Dan says that if “The Art of Winning” is about anything, it’s about being able to win those battles with your mind.
By breaking down his purpose into manageable pieces he would strive towards achieving certain goals every single day. 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. I never went to university, and a part of me had always thought, “I don’t deserve to be in these important business meetings.The me that opened it certainly wanted to, while the me that closed it recognised that that would be a folly. Reading this book left me in an interesting place, not least because I closed it realising that I had almost no cutting insights to offer. Please Note: By their very nature, all signed books will have been handled several times before they get to you. Luminous, elegant, haunting - I read it straight through' Philippe Sands, author of East West Street. Like anyone who devotes themselves completely to a discipline and becomes hooked on the buzz that success brings, I couldn’t imagine a life without rugby, and I had other things I wanted to achieve in the game.
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