Staying the Distance

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Product details

  • ISBN 9781399405850
  • Weight: 440g
  • Dimensions: 158 x 250mm
  • Publication Date: 30 Mar 2023
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Staying the Distance showcases the much-needed leadership lessons that sport can teach us: how to improve, perform and achieve, in ways that are effective and sustainable.

Leadership can be hard. It can certainly be relentless. The pandemic has wreaked havoc on the well-being, health and sustained performance of many senior leaders, and yet strong leadership remains central to the performance of every single organization.

Business leaders are very familiar with drawing lessons from elite sport, particularly around teams, leadership and high performance. But we have all been missing a trick. Day in, day out, sport has been showing us not only how to improve, perform and achieve, but how to do so on a sustained basis, consistently delivering results when it matters. This book shines a light on these unseen lessons, and provides a clear and practical roadmap for how to deploy them in the reader's own leadership practices.

With Catherine Baker’s unique view into world-class sport and top-level business, and with insights from top performers in both worlds, this book provides a fresh and dynamic take on how - consistently and over the long term - to bring out the best in yourself, and in those you lead.

Founder and Director at Sport and Beyond, Catherine Baker is sought after as a keynote speaker - by organizations such as the Bank of England and HSBC - due to her unique blend of professional background and deep insight into the world of elite sport. She has appeared on speaker panels at a broad range of events, from a Women in Leadership programme (jointly hosted by Goldman Sachs and Deloitte) and the inaugural AllBright FoundHer festival, through to a groundbreaking event held in the Long Room at Lords hosted by Women in Sport. Catherine is also a member of the Steering Group of the O Shaped Lawyer (and will be Chair from April 2022), and has extensive experience as a non-executive director, most recently as a Trustee on the Board of the Dame Kelly Holmes Trust.

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