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Will It Make the Boat Go Faster: Olympic-Winning Strategies for Everyday Success - The Sunday Times Bestseller
Discover the simple principles that took a team from mediocrity to Olympic gold, and which you can use every day in work, life and play.
How do you go from ordinary to exceptional? This bestselling coaching classic will show you how.
Ben Hunt-Davis shares the inspiring story of how he and the British men’s rowing Eight went from never winning an international race to becoming the best in the world just two years later. Performance Coach Harriet Beveridge then highlights the wealth of transferable strategies we can use to pursue our own ‘gold medals’ for ourselves, our workplaces and beyond.
Ben’s firsthand account transports readers into the boat with the intensity of training, the emotional rollercoaster of setbacks, the thrill of success. Harriet distils the lessons from each gripping story into easy-to-implement strategies to apply to your from how to keep yourself motivated day-in-day out to how to bounce back from failure; from how to build resilient teams to cultivating a learning mindset.
This 15th anniversary edition of Will It Make The Boat Go Faster? Includes new examples of people from all walks of life applying these Olympic-winning strategies to their contexts to make their own boats go faster. Whether you’re a business leader wanting better results, an individual with a dream, or a coach guiding your team to unlocking their potential, this book is jammed-pack with tried and tested methods to help you achieve your own gold medals.
The book is a winning mix of gripping narrative and practical performance-raising tips.
How do you go from ordinary to exceptional? This bestselling coaching classic will show you how.
Ben Hunt-Davis shares the inspiring story of how he and the British men’s rowing Eight went from never winning an international race to becoming the best in the world just two years later. Performance Coach Harriet Beveridge then highlights the wealth of transferable strategies we can use to pursue our own ‘gold medals’ for ourselves, our workplaces and beyond.
Ben’s firsthand account transports readers into the boat with the intensity of training, the emotional rollercoaster of setbacks, the thrill of success. Harriet distils the lessons from each gripping story into easy-to-implement strategies to apply to your from how to keep yourself motivated day-in-day out to how to bounce back from failure; from how to build resilient teams to cultivating a learning mindset.
This 15th anniversary edition of Will It Make The Boat Go Faster? Includes new examples of people from all walks of life applying these Olympic-winning strategies to their contexts to make their own boats go faster. Whether you’re a business leader wanting better results, an individual with a dream, or a coach guiding your team to unlocking their potential, this book is jammed-pack with tried and tested methods to help you achieve your own gold medals.
The book is a winning mix of gripping narrative and practical performance-raising tips.
305 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 18, 2026
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July 15, 2026
I listened to the audiobook and enjoyed the delivery with the alternation between the two readers, as well as the practical tips and good structure. The concepts are interesting, described well and presented with many pointers of how to put them into practice. I was wondering for the first part of the book whether Ben kept a journal or how he remembered such a level of detail. The concept that resonated with me the most was adding to the calculation of risks, when evaluating what to do, the risk of doing nothing. Impressive performance or the winning team and also an impressive performance of the authors on the content and format of this book.
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