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
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.
