Humphrey Walters GLOBAL CHALLENGE Signed Hardback
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Humphrey Walters GLOBAL CHALLENGE Signed Hardback
First edition, reprint hardback of GLOBAL CHALLENGE: Leadership Lessons from the World's Toughest Yacht Race, by Humphrey Walters, Peter Mackie, Rosie Mackie, Andrea Bacon. Published by The Book Guild Ltd., Sussex, 1998. Signed by Humphrey Walters on the title page. Foreword by HRH Prince Michael of Kent.The book is in very good condition (Clean blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on the spine) with only minor wear to the pictorial dust jacket, which is not price clipped (light creasing to the edges). Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no other inscriptions.
For the past 30 years, Humphrey Walters has been inspiring and motivating individuals, teams and corporations in leadership and management and the concept of "The Business of Winning". He works with teams which range from the World Cup-winning England Rugby team in 2003; Premier League football teams; Government departments; industry and professional bodies.
Humphrey is unique in that to study teamship and attitudes in a hostile environment, he spent 11 months in a force 10 gale doing the BT Global Challenge - a yacht race sailing the wrong way round the world.
He is also very involved in sports and helped the World Cup winning England Rugby Team with their team development (they won by 35 seconds!). More recently he was involved in helping JCB break the world land speed record in a car with two digger engines! He has also run over 35 marathons for charities. Humphrey also works closely with the Sandhurst Military academy and trains many Global Leaders at the academy using business methodology allied to the unique atmosphere of the academy.
Global Challenge - a 30,000 mile yacht race around the world against prevailing winds and currents that gives ordinary people the opportunity to achieve the extraordinary. The challenge is dubbed The Worlds Toughest Yacht Race.
The book is an account of the race, largely by those who took part. It is also a case study of human endeavor and of teamwork in a competitive and arduous environment over a lengthy period of time. It is a book on the fascinating lessons learned and about personal leadership and team behaviours when faced with a complex and dynamic environment.
"On September 29 1996, 14 identical yachts left Southampton to participate in The Worlds Toughest Yacht Race - the BT Global Challenge - a 30,000 mile journey round the world the 'wrong way'.
After extensive training by Sir Chay Blyth's Challenge Business, the crew volunteers selected on the basis of enthusiasm rather than experience, were split randomly into 14 teams and were thus forced to make the best of the varying talents available.
Racing against prevailing winds and currents, the crew faced an environment of extreme danger - violent weather conditions, equipment failure, complex tactical decisions, fatique, and an ever-mounting daily workload.
This was the dramatic setting for a unique and spectacular case study of the leadership and team building factors crucial for survival and performance at the highest level, and in extremely difficult and changeable conditions.
This book provides a graphic description of the conditions that the yachts faced and the many elements that the crews had to cope with. The lessons learned on leadership and teamwork are drawn from this and compared with extensive research conducted at Princeton University and the London Business School, determining the behaviours necessary to produce outstanding performance when faced with a complex and dynamic environment.
Vivid illustrations of the use of High Performance Behaviours (HPB) make this an invaluable book which provides definitive answers for leaders and teams in any organisation looking to improve personal and team performance. This is not only a unique case study but also a fascinating story."
290 pages. Illustrated with colour photographs throughout.
ISBN: 1 85776 385 8
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