Dan Carter: The Autobiography of an All Blacks Legend

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Dan Carter: The Autobiography of an All Blacks Legend

Dan Carter: The Autobiography of an All Blacks Legend

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Allowing yourself time to grieve and deal with your difficult feelings after a setback means you’re building towards coming to terms with it. But I learned to adapt to a new role within the squad rather than face up to the writing on the wall. I never went to university, and a part of me had always thought, “I don’t deserve to be in these important business meetings.

Never forgetting where you came from is about staying true to your key values, who you are deep down,” he says. In our Author Access interview and in his new book "The Art of Winning" Dan admitted he struggled with his identity, leading to anxiety, self-doubt, and feeling rudderless. 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. And so began a process that is still ongoing in my life, a process that has forced me to look inwardly in a way I’ve never had to before, that has proven challenging, frustrating, rewarding and left me full of gratitude. I’d lost my head and all I could think was that I wasn’t going to be able to finish on my own terms.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. The me that opened it certainly wanted to, while the me that closed it recognised that that would be a folly. But along with the triumphs of his signature World Cup win, his performance against the Lions in 2005, and an unprecedented run of Bledisloe Cup successes, there was also the pain and doubt he felt during a prolonged period of injury and rehab following the 2011 World Cup. And I thought to my place now, to have spent so many years pursuing my goal to be the best player in the world. Whether you're a business looking to work on your culture, a leader on a steep learning curve, a person navigating change in their life or just someone of any age trying to get that little bit better every day, I hope that my experience can spur you on to greater heights, and master the art of winning.

Ten timeless truths on leadership, purpose and potential - from the unique culture of the All Blacks, and the mind of a living legend. But there was nowhere to hide anymore, and over the course of that year I came to accept that my days as a professional rugby player were over. Richie McCaw, Rugby World Cup winning captain and the New Zealand All Black's most capped player of all time, is unquestionably the greatest player of his generation and arguably the most talented player of all time. When I got out of bed each day I was striving to improve upon the player I was yesterday, to be the best rugby player in the world.

I engage with culture both high and low, and with equal amounts of enthusiasm – I have seen every single episode of Family Guy (which is still going, FYI) and I read The Luminaries in one sitting. Threaded throughout the book is an intimate diary of his final year as a Crusader and All Black, during which he worked tirelessly to make one last run at that elusive goal: a World Cup victory achieved on the field. I am not in a leadership or management position – largely I am responsible only for myself (although I have considered giving this book to the people in my life who are required to manage me, professionally and personally). You won't find conventional wisdom here, but hard-learned truths, including:- Why great leaders are made, not born, and why they must constantly evolve- How to forge a winning team culture- Why embracing your past can be every bit as important as looking towards your future- Why empowering others leads to the best decisions- Why confidence and self-belief are nothing without humility and a beginner's mindsetHonest, surprising and inspiring, The Art of Winning converts a legendary career into timeless lessons for readers in any walk of life. Will usually dispatch within same working day if paid before 22:00 GMT (excludes weekends and holidays).

I didn’t think about the bigger picture - the people going through much worse around the world, my privileged position to be insulated from the worst of it with my family in New Zealand. 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. If you’re serious about pushing yourself and achieving big goals, there is definitely going to be some sacrifice,” he says.And then when organisations like the Oxford Foundry asked me to get involved in helping to mentor their next generation of leaders, when people showed interest in learning about the kind of resilience I’d built up through coming back from setbacks in my career, I felt certain that I had something to offer after all. 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).

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? He also learned to demand excellence from others, and have the uncomfortable conversations that this entails. 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. In 2021, Dan was invited to become the first ever Leader in Practice at the Oxford Foundry, the entrepreneurship institute founded at the university by Apple CEO Tim Cook. What could be a more tempting gift than a compendium of David Sedaris's best stories, selected by the author himself?His autobiography tells of that redemption, and gets you up close and personal with one of the most celebrated sportsmen of our time. Much later, she fell out with her foster family, and Bart van Es - the grandson of Lien's foster parents - knew he needed to find out why. 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. 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. To me he is more of a concept – if you’d ask me to name a rugby player, his name would be one of the first to come to mind.



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