Team spirit : life and leadership on one of the world's toughest yacht races / Brendan Hall ; foreword by Robin Knox-Johnston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hall, Brendan.

Contributor:

Knox-Johnston, Robin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Yacht racing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (251 p.)

Place of Publication:

London : Adlard Coles Nautical, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Team Spirit is a gripping account of a race on the edge, and a young skipper's determined journey to victory. The Clipper Round the World Yacht Race is the ultimate long distance challenge - a 35,000-mile circumnavigation of the globe, contested by amateur crews in identical racing yachts - and the winners are those who keep their focus the longest. The 2010 winner was 28-year-old Brendan Hall and his crew in Spirit of Australia . Although Brendan was the youngest and least experienced skipper in the race, the win was no accident - it was the culmination of years of training, skilled navigatio

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Route map; Foreword; Preface; 1 LEADERSHIP: The only real training for leadership is leadership; 2 THE RACE: Every artist was first an amateur; 3 INSPIRATION: First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do; 4 PREPARATION: To be prepared is half the victory; 5 TEAM SPIRIT: If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself; 6 TRAINING: We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit; 7 RACING AT LAST: Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success

8 JUDGEMENT: A man should learn to sail in all winds9 ATTITUDE: Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference; 10 PERSISTENCE: No great achievement is possible without persistent work; 11 DANGER: He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea; 12 FULL CIRCLE: It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves; Epilogue; The crew of Spirit of Australia; Appendix: The entire text of my Team SPIRIT vision; Plate Section

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-280-69896-9

9786613675934

1-4081-5864-7

OCLC:

796384570