The Art of Captaincy: What Sport Teaches Us About Leadership
Written by Mike Brearley and Ed Smith
Narrated by Roger May
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About this audiobook
Mike Brearley is one of the most successful cricket captains of all time, and, in 1981, he captained the England team to the momentous Ashes series victory against Australia.
In The Art of Captaincy, his study on leadership and motivation, he draws directly on his experience of man-managing a team, which included a pugnacious Ian Botham and Geoffrey Boycott, to explain what it takes to be a leader on and off the field. Giving an insight into both his tactical understanding of the game, as well as how to get a group of individuals playing as a team in order to get the best out of them, The Art of Captaincy is a classic handbook on how to generate, nurture and inspire success.
With a foreword by former England player and BBC commentator Ed Smith, to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of its first publication, and an afterword by director Sam Mendes, The Art of Captaincy remains urgently relevant for cricket fans and business leaders alike. Covering the ability to use intuition, resourcefulness, clear-headedness and the importance of empathy as a means of achieving shared goals, Brearley's seminal account of captaincy is both the ultimate blueprint for creating a winning mind set, but also shows how the lessons in the sporting arena can be applied to any walk of personal and professional life.
Mike Brearley
Mike Brearley played for Middlesex County Cricket Club through three decades, playing in his first England Test match in 1976 and becoming captain from 1977 to 1980. He was recalled to the captaincy in 1981, leading England to their famous victory. He now works as a psychoanalyst and, since his retirement from cricket in 1982, has given talks on leadership and motivation, which he explores in The Art of Captaincy.
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