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  • Published: 1 April 2021
  • ISBN: 9780141991283
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 304

Accomplishment

How to Achieve Ambitious and Challenging Things




An inspiring and practical guide to achieving bold ambitions from a world-renowned expert

With a wealth of both professional experience as government advisor and from his own journey overcoming a rare skin cancer diagnosis, Michael Barber offers an accessible guide on how to set and achieve even the most challenging of goals. Drawing on historic visionaries and modern heroes - from Mary Fischer and Rosa Parks to Paula Radcliffe and Gareth Southgate - Barber presents a unique combination of personal anecdote, historical evidence and interviews from inspirational figures to unpack the route to success. With both frank honesty, and humour, Accomplishment is set to empower readers with a blueprint of how they, too, can achieve greatness.

  • Published: 1 April 2021
  • ISBN: 9780141991283
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 304

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Praise for Accomplishment

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

Full of unexpected insights and personal anecdotes . . . Sir Michael is a quietly inspirational leader

John Rentoul, Independent