The Winning Mindset cover art

The Winning Mindset

What Sport Can Teach Us About Great Leadership

 Preview
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free
Offer ends 31 July, 2025 23:59 BST.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for £8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

The Winning Mindset

By: Damian Hughes
Narrated by: Damian Hughes
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/mo after 3 months. Offer ends 31 July, 2025 23:59 BST. Cancel monthly.

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £12.99

Buy Now for £12.99

Confirm Purchase
Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.
Cancel

About this listen

This audiobook is skilfully and inspiringly read by the author, Damian Hughes.

In The Winning Mindset, Professor Damian Hughes, the acclaimed author of Liquid Thinking and How to Think Like Sir Alex Ferguson, draws on both his lifetime experience and academic background within sport, organization and change psychology to reveal the best ways to create a winning mindset in both personal and professional life.

Having worked with some of the top teams in the UK, and watched some of the best coaches in the country at work, Hughes distils the five keys principles that separate the best coaches and teams from the rest: Simplicity; Tripwires; Emotions; Practical; Stories: STEPS.

The role of a sports-team leader is fascinating, complex and tough. Fantasy football leagues may convince us that success is all about buying players and selecting a team. In reality, it is about creating winning environments – recruiting, developing and nurturing talent, effectively communicating a shared vision with a diverse collection of individuals, delivering on enormous expectations from a range of stakeholders, overcoming significant challenges, handling pressure and staying focused throughout: a set of challenges familiar to leaders in all sectors.

©2016 Damian Hughes (P)2016 Pan Macmillan Publishers Ltd. Career Success Forecasting & Strategic Planning Leadership Management Management & Leadership Mentoring & Coaching Motivation & Self-Improvement Organisational Behavior Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Sports Psychology Workplace & Organisational Behavior Sports Business Career Thought-Provoking Inspiring Coaching

Listeners also enjoyed...

 Leadership cover art
How to Win cover art
Winning Minds cover art
The Art of Winning cover art
Connect! cover art
Let's Do This! cover art
Business Is Personal cover art
I'm Worth More cover art
How to Listen cover art
What's Your Message? cover art
The Warrior, the Strategist and You cover art
Your Perfect Presentation cover art
Insanely Gifted cover art
15 Minutes to Happiness cover art
Bounce cover art
World Class cover art
All stars
Most relevant  
I thoroughly enjoyed listening to the author read his own words. It added to the experience of listening and learning. If you are a sport enthusiast the examples that litter the book will be a fascinating adjunct to the underlying message. If like me you are not sporty or particularly interested in sport the book still delivers powerful insights into delivering better talks or messages to others.
You get the full benefit you might have to listen several times. But even after listening once through there were many important and actually quite simple techniques that can be adapted to everyday use where you have to address others or galvanise people into improvement.

Excellent and fascinating way to learn leadership!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Enjoyed the narration and content albeit nothing ground breaking. Interesting reflections and narratives from some sporting greats.
worth a read / listen.

Interesting but not life changing

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I really like the way Damian splits the book up into Five simple steps with really easy to use take home messages that you can learn today and use tomorrow.
The examples are really entertaining with some awesome stories from the world of sport and beyond.
Damian can you put more of your books on audio please. They really make the commute go quickly and I find on getting to work I don’t want to switch off.

What a fabulous audiobook. Damian’s narration keeps you unfailingly interested.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Really liked it. listened to it a second time and picked up a lot of very memorable tips

hard to stop listening

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Practical advice with great story telling .... I loved it and would highly recommend it to anyone trying to change their habits

Thought Provoking & Inspiring

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I’m an avid audiobook listener and always looking for self development/leadership advice. This is one of the best I have come across. Very helpful for all personal and professional endeavours.

Excellent listen

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
The content of this book is superb, and Damian’s delivery is outstanding. The stories and the lessons within them are put across in such a simple yet powerful way, anyone who takes the time to listen will learn exactly what this book is there to teach.

Amazing

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Love the work of Damian Hughes and this is for me and excellent book. Great narration and so much top, top content. A highly recommended read.

Winning Book.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
This book is so cleverly and thoughtfully put together mixing experience with research. Damian delivering also adds so much to the learning from the book. So practical and the exercises help embed it's relevance in the readets current situation.

littered with Ah Ha moments

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
well worth a listen, if not only for the stories. Fantastic anecdotes and applications of the lessons you learn.

cracking book...

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews