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FREE WINNERS: AND HOW THEY SUCCEED PDF Alastair Campbell | 464 pages | 26 Feb 2015 | Cornerstone | 9780091958862 | English | London, United Kingdom Winners And How They Succeed - BookXcess Online How people succeed — and how you can, too. Alastair Campbell knows all about winning. How do sports stars excel, entrepreneurs thrive, or individuals achieve Winners: And How They Succeed ambition? Is their ability to win innate? Or is the winning mindset something we can all develop? Drawing on the wisdom of an astonishing array of talented people — from elite athletes to top managers, from rulers of countries to rulers of global business empires — Alastair Campbell uses his forensic skills, as well as his own experience of politics and sport, to get to the heart of success. He examines how winners tick. He considers how they build great teams. He analyses how they deal with unexpected setbacks and new challenges. He judges what the very different worlds of politics, business and sport can learn from one another. And he sets out a blueprint for winning that we can all follow. Read more Read less. Great Indian Festival. Customers who bought this item also bought. Page 1 of 1 Start over Page 1 of 1. Richard Reed. Jon Gertner. Matthew Syed. Matthieu Ricard. Mao: The Unknown Story. Jung Chang. New Power: Why outsiders are winning, institutions are failing, and how the rest of us can keep up in the age of mass participation. Jeremy Heimans. Review "This book is a winning project in its own right… I was captivated with the simplicity of the messages and the rich illustrations learned from many lives. Alastair Campbell deserves congratulations on an engaging text that can help other talented and committed people with potential for success to become winners themselves. This Winners: And How They Succeed a handbook for anyone who would like to be like them" Andy McSmith Independent, Books of the Year "One of the most interesting people in Britain and this book is one of the most interesting about winners. Winning is not the important thing, it is the only thing. Having graduated from Cambridge University in modern languages, he went into journalism, principally with the Mirror Group. When Tony Blair became leader of the Labour Party, Campbell worked for him first as press secretary, then as official spokesman and director of communications and strategy from to He continued to act as an advisor to Mr. Blair and the Labour Party, including during subsequent election campaigns. He now splits his time between writing, speaking, consultancy, and politics in Britain and overseas. He is also chairman of fundraising for Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research and a leading ambassador for the mental health campaign Time to Change. He lives in north London with his partner of thirty-five years, Fiona Millar. They have three children. His interests include running, cycling, bagpipes, and Burnley Football Club. He has published six volumes of diaries, including the Sunday Times number one bestseller The Blair Years; a memoir on depression, The Happy Depressive; and three novels. Read more. What other items do customers buy after viewing this item? Customer reviews. How are ratings calculated? Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if Winners: And How They Succeed reviewer bought the item on Amazon. It also analyses reviews to verify trustworthiness. Review this product Share your thoughts with other customers. Write a product review. Customer images. See all customer images. Top reviews Most recent Top reviews. Top reviews from India. Winners: And How They Succeed was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. Verified Purchase. Inwhile pondering over taking plunge into entrepreneurship after 8 years corporate life I chanced upon book by Napoleon Hill-'Think and grow rich'. Winners: And How They Succeed my state my mind, I found the book very inspiring and intriguing. I would put 'Winners and how they succeed' by Alastair Campbell in the same league though it is more contemporary in scope and relevance. Alastair Campbell not the former Zimbabwean cricketer has come up with his formula to become a winner based on his experience with leaders and successful personalities across the world. He defines them and tries to show the way to become one. He backs his recipe and opinion with numerous examples about Winners in different field from different countries. Winners: And How They Succeed note that all the names mentioned on the cover are discussed inside. The book is broadly divided into four parts and each part is further segregated into sub-parts. In each part he shares his ideas and prescription to become a winner. The ideas are further expounded in form of sub-parts. First part is an absolute eye opener for people who has tendency to overthink and procrastinate. Rest three build up on what is being taught in first part. Last section in each part is exclusively details one or more personalities to make the previously discussed points more pertinent and robust. Since Campbell has had the opportunity to interact with most of the personalities that he frequently quotes personally his anecdotes are in sync with context of his ideas and remains relevant to our times and generation. As reader it is easy to remain connected to the theme. It is always better to introspect and check through examples if one is on right track. Winner's journey is mostly unique and lonely but there are always some common threads that connects their story. Read it to learn, unlearn, relearn and improve. It helped me immensely and I hope there would be more readers like me. Not helpful. Same Old. But Armstrong story is so Winners: And How They Succeed. He himself admitted to taking drugs. Very good book. One of the best I've read in terms of knowledge and motivation. A LOT of insight into the minds of some serious greats. Certain sections are trite and nauseating. But overall it's well worth gritting through those parts and finishing the book It's one of those books that I plan to re-read. Funny anecdotes make it all the more worthwhile. Loved it. Helped me during a particularly stressful time. Recommended for all stressed out students. See all reviews. Top reviews from other countries. Not a fan of New Labour, competitive sport, self-help books or indeed people who describe themselves as 'winners'? It really doesn't matter. Alastair Campbell's foray into motivational writing is good enough to leave all such Winners: And How They Succeed prejudices Winners: And How They Succeed in its wake. This is an excellent book. I turned to it, almost by accident, in the midst of minor personal crisis totally unrelated to football, cycling or Winners: And How They Succeed my problem was a contentious local planning dispute. The whole thing was getting me down. I felt increasingly powerless, victimised by circumstances beyond my control and unable to see a positive way forward. Does 'Winners' give an insight, however indirectly, into what Tony Blair got from Alastair Campbell during those long-ago days of refulgent Labour success? Certainly, it feels that way. Reading 'Winners' is rather like having a trusted, plain-speaking, sometimes pretty merciless friend standing by my side, telling me to get myself together, think strategically and act purposefully. It's all good advice. It also works. As befits an extremely successful journalist, speech-writer and spin doctor, Campbell writes clearly and forcefully. Winners and How They Succeed by Alastair Campbell – digested read | Books | The Guardian But no winner, or leader, succeeds forever. In the end events, time, physical decline or mortality intervene. In reality, Campbell is not merely the simple public image promoted by the press or perceived by most people. He is quite far from being the controlling communications director he was thought to be during the Blair years. He is a complex character - journalist, writer, politician, lobbyist, broadcaster, sports enthusiast and family man. He has faced his own demons, learned from his failures and worked through them. His statements on the essential aspects of winning are not unique, novel Winners: And How They Succeed even complex, but his extraordinary career has given him the opportunity to meet an exceptional range of people in many fields - politics, sport, business, media and the arts - Winners: And How They Succeed to distil out, illustrate and summarise the key issues in an engaging and exciting way. Getting the simple things out of the way, the question is often asked - are winners or leaders born or made? This is the perennial question in developmental psychology about almost every aspect of human behaviour. The answer is, of course, neither. For leadership and winning, whether a Winners: And How They Succeed or cognitive ability is genetically endowed or is an interaction of genetics with early environment, nobody will succeed without talent as the starting point. If the talent is not there, no amount of application of techniques, rule following or practice will lead to Winners: And How They Succeed. If it is there, then continual commitment, application, focus, practice and development is essential. For those who have the talent the next essential element is maintaining the right mindset. Campbell illustrates with examples ranging from top athletes through politicians to the most Winners: And How They Succeed entrepreneurs. There is a telling example in the book that illustrates this. Gary Lineker was not only talented but he adopted the right mindset to success. Raphael Burke, one of the class of '92, alongside David Beckham, Ryan Giggs, Scholes, the Nevilles and Budd were arguably the most talented of all but crashed and burned early on because of mindset problems.