How Winning Works; 8 Essential Leadership Lessons From the Toughest Teams on Earth

The format is approximately 5.625 by 8.5 inches. xxiv, 214, [2] pages. Boxes. Index. Errata slip correction a paragraph on page 33 is laid in. About the Author. Inscribed by the author on the fep. Inscription reads Bo Team Genzyme! Better.Together Xo Robyn. Genzyme was an American biotechnology company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Robyn Benincasa is an American endurance racer, adventure racer, author, and motivational speaker. She was a competitor in several seasons of the Eco-Challenge: The Expedition Race reality television show. Her team won the 2000 Eco-Challenge in Borneo. She went on to found or co-found two companies focused on team-building for corporate clients. She is the founder of Project Athena, a nonprofit organization that helps women who have experienced medical challenges to fulfill their athletic ambitions. She holds three Guinness World Records. Her first was in 2010, for the farthest distance traveled by a woman by canoe or kayak on flat water. In 2011, Benincasa set a Guinness World Record for the farthest distance traveled by a woman by canoe or kayak in 24 hours on moving water. She kayaked 231.10 miles on the Yukon River in Canada. She secured her third Guinness Record in 2014, for the greatest distance traveled by a woman on a stand-up paddleboard in still water in 24 hours, covering a total of 91 miles. She accomplished this by paddling laps around an island in Huntington Beach, California. In 1998, Benincasa, fellow-firefighter and Eco-Internet teammate Ian Adamson, and ultra-marathoner Liz Hafer founded Colorado Adventure Training. Robyn Benincasa has made an art form of extreme performance by competing and winning at the highest levels of sport and business. In her fifteen-year career as a professional adventure racer, she has biked through jungles in Borneo, climbed Himalayan giants in Nepal, trekked across lava fields in Fiji, rafted rapids in Chile, and racked up multiple world championship titles along the way. In her spare time, she is a firefighter and a sought-after keynote speaker on the subject of teamwork and leadership. In How Winning Works, Benincasa shows you how to climb to new levels of professional and personal success. She shares the eight essential elements of teamwork, learned through her extreme adventure racing, that create synergy with all the teammates in your life, from colleagues and customers to family members and friends: Total Commitment; Empathy and Awareness; Adversity Management; Mutual Respect; "We" Thinking; Ownership of the Project; Relinquishment of Ego; and Kinetic Leadership. This field guide to success shares the same training tools and exercises that have become wildly popular in the leadership seminars Benincasa gives to corporations, including Starbucks, Deloitte Consulting, 3M, Verizon, Nestlé, Boeing and many others. Stories from her adventure racing also illustrate how winning teams interact under the world's most extreme conditions, from jungles to mountain peaks. Whether you're trying to beat the competition to market with a new product, scale a looming mountain of deadlines or simply get your kids to clean up their rooms, the advice in this book will take you on an adventure you'll never forget, and coach you over the finish line to success. …