Accomplishment: How to Achieve Ambitious and Challenging Things

Description

An inspiring and practical guide to achieving bold ambitions from a world-renowned expert Michael Barber has spent many years advising governments, businesses and major sporting teams around the world on how to achieve ambitious goals on time. In this book he applies the wisdom he has gained from dealing with large, complex organizations and elite athletes to help anyone tackle their most challenging goals. Drawing on the stories of historic visionaries and modern heroes - from Galileo to Rosa Parks, Harold Macmillan to Paula Radcliffe - Barber uses personal anecdote and proven strategy to map the route to success and navigate the difficulties that arise along the way. Whatever it is that you aspire to do - run a marathon, transform a school or provide a business of public service to millions - this book will inspire you to get going and to bridge the gap between hope and reality.

Sir Michael Barber is a global expert on education reform and the implementation of ambitious change in education and other large, complicated systems. He has advised governments on every continent and worked with major private sector organisations and universities in Britain and the US. He is a member of the Football Association's Technical Advisory Board and advises Team Sky, the elite cycling team.

Full of unexpected insights and personal anecdotes . . . Sir Michael is a quietly inspirational leader -- John Rentoul * Independent * An excellent analysis that reveals that high accomplishment has a signature pattern that reoccurs from sport to politics to business to government. Few people are better placed to describe this pattern than Michael Barber - who has stellar achievements in all these fields -- Matthew Syed