Everybody wants to change something, whether it is work, life, yourself or someone else. Based on evidence-based psychological principles, including those drawn from CBT, this book demonstrates how you can bring about positive change in your life. Bursting with powerful tips, tricks, advice and guidance taken from interviews with some of the most positive and productive people in the world, from Mohammed Ali and Richard Branson to Alex Ferguson and Tiger Woods.

How to Change Absolutely Anything

Self-Help

Hughes, Damian

Personal Transformation

Pearson Life

Drawing on his experience and academic background within sports, organization, and change psychology, Damien Hughes reveals the the best ways to create a winning mindset in personal and professional life. He distills the five principles that separate the best coaches and teams from the rest: Simplicity, Tripwires, Emotions, Practical, and Stories: STEPS. The role of a 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, 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.

The Winning Mindset: What Sport Can Teach Us About Great Leadership

Business & Money

Business Culture

Pan Books

Drawing on his lifetime experience and academic background within sports, organization, and change psychology, Damien Hughes reveals here the the best ways to create a winning mindset in both personal and professional life. Hughes has worked with some of the top teams in the UK, and watched some of the best coaches in the country at work. He distills 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.

The Five Steps to a Winning Mindset: What Sport Can Teach Us About Great Leadership

Management & Leadership

Macmillan, UK

What we can learn from the most successful football club on the planet about building a winning culture in any working environment.FC Barcelona is one of the most victorious clubs in the world. In The Barcelona Way, Professor Damian Hughes draws on exclusive access to the football club and his own experience within sport, business and organizational psychology to show how the DNA of a winning team can be successfully applied to any working environment, with dramatic results.At the heart of FCB's winning culture are five principles that govern how they deal with people and the care and attention given to the environment in which those people are nurtured. These five principles for unprecedented success are: Big Picture, Arc of Change, Repetition, Cultural Architects, and Authentic Leadership. These principles are not only behind FCB's unique success, but are the key to tackling critical issues faced by the modern corporate environment.From the shop floor to the board room, the dressing room to the pitch, these universal principles of success are equally relevant to any organization and the key to developing your own winning culture.

The Barcelona Way: How to Create a Winning Team

Everyone wants to change something about their life. These changes can be as simple as finding a way to eliminate some of life’s little annoyances from the day-to-day or as profound as finally taking action towards achieving a lifelong ambition. Regardless of where you fall on this spectrum, if you’re serious about changing your life, you need to answer these fundamental questions: What change do you want to make? How are you going to do it? In this book you will learn all you need to make real and lasting changes to just about anything in your life—no matter the problem and no matter your goal. Uncover life-changing secrets, mindsets, and practical techniques, such as: Making first impressions Crafting how others perceive you The power of emotions Controlling your feelings Reacting to change Being flexible Promoting change through your core beliefs Avoiding mistakes that impede positive change Understanding influences Taking action You can read it cover to cover or just peruse its wealth of tips and tricks if ever you’re facing a challenge and need some sharp advice or keen inspiration to spur change forward. Whichever approach you take, you’ll feel empowered, emboldened, energized, and ready to steamroll any obstacles, overcome even the harshest objections, and learn how to affect change in whatever you set your mind to.

How to Change Absolutely Anything: Practical Techniques to Make Real and Lasting Changes

Reference

Skyhorse

"An insightful and interesting book packed with leadership ideas" - Stuart Lancaster Consider the question - why does anyone buy sports books, or books about or by sports stars? For sure there is a souvenir and nostalgia element. But people also buy sports books to see if our heroes give any clues to the magic ingredient that has made them so successful. We read them to see what we can learn about their lives, particularly in the hard times, and how they triumphed over adversity. In the first in the new series from Aurum Sports sports psychologist Damian Hughes, who has worked with Manchester United, lifts the lid on what made Sir Alex Ferguson the most successful football manager Great Britain has ever produced. He will give the reader an understanding of what Ferguson did to get the best out of his players, and how we can learn from him and apply these lessons to our professional and personal lives.

How to Think Like Sir Alex Ferguson: The Business of Winning and Managing Success

Biographies & Memoirs

Aurum Press

Marvelous Marvin Hagler is a sporting legend. Often called the greatest middleweight boxer of all time, he held the world title for 12 defenses, including bouts with Sugar Ray Leonard, Thomas Hearns, and Roberto Duran, which entered fistic folklore. From his wild early fights in the boxing wilderness of Brockton, Massachusetts, Brian and Damian Hughes trace the blazing trail of Hagler's career: the controversial defeats subsequently avenged, a riot-scarred title win in London, and his unification of the middleweight crown. Hagler became a huge favorite, taking on all comers while never taking a step back. And so to The Ring magazine's "greatest round of all time" against Hearns, his ferocious battle with Duran, and the still-controversial loss to his nemesis Leonard. Marvelous tells the story of Hagler's extraordinary life for the first time, separating truth from myth to get right to the heart of a complex and charismatic man.

Marvelous: The Marvin Hagler Story

Hughes, Brian

Pitch Publishing Ltd

Thomas Hearns is one of the greatest fighters of all time. From his explosion onto the pro boxing scene with seventeen straight knockouts, he struck fear into opponents and awe into spectators. He featured in some of the most thrilling bouts ever and became the first champion to win six titles at different weights. He will forever be known by his chilling nickname: Hit Man.
Growing up in the urban wasteland of inner-city Detroit, Hearns learned to defend himself at the notorious Kronk gym. There he came under the tutelage of master trainer Emanuel Steward, who turned him into the deadliest puncher in the game. From his destruction of Pipino Cuevas to his now-legendary fights with fellow greats Sugar Ray Leonard and Roberto Duran, Hearns carved out a reputation for skill, courage, and stunning power. His epic 1985 challenge against middleweight champion Marvin Hagler, billed as "The War," has gone down as the most exciting three rounds in boxing history.
Defeats only seemed to make Hearns stronger, and he achieved the extraordinary feat of winning titles in every weight category, from welterweight to cruiserweight. Lately he has devoted his energies to his promotions company, Hearns Entertainment, yet he still toys with the idea of winning "one more belt." Hit Man delves inside this complex, charismatic character to present a compelling portrait of a modern sports legend.
Brian Hughes is a boxing trainer and the author of numerous boxing biographies. His son, Damian Hughes, is a leadership consultant. Both live in Manchester, England.

Hit Man: The Thomas Hearns Story

Community & Culture

Milo Books

Stuck in a rut? Know what you want but don’t know how to get it? Feel like life is passing you by? Sick of getting mediocre results? Then enter the wonderful world of Liquid Thinking… 
A practical, jargon-free and easily accessible self-help book drawing on a diverse range of experiences and containing digestible lessons and exercises used by sports captains, charity leaders and business leaders. It is the only self-help book which has ever been endorsed by Sir Richard Branson, Angelo Dundee, Muhammad Ali, and Jonny Wilkinson. It is a brave man who starts his book on self development by quoting Jerry Springer and discussing the literary merits of the Joy of Sex; however, this is Damian Hughes to a tee. Combining his own experiences as a Manchester United football coach, HR Director and youth club leader with exclusive insights from Sir Richard Branson, Angelo Dundee, Muhammad Ali and Jonny Wilkinson, Hughes will help you to step forward to achieve your own special hopes, dreams and ambition. The books have been credited with helping people build their own houses, fight cancer and run marathons, so come on and be a fellow Liquid Thinker!

Liquid Thinking: Inspirational Lessons from the World's Great Achievers

Capstone

A practical, jargon-free and easily accessible book on making a difference as a leader, Damian Hughes’ Liquid Leadership draws on a diverse list of leaders in everyday life (Kim England, National Sales Training Manager at Unilever), to showbiz celebrities (John Lennon, Walt Disney), to renowned historical leaders (Shackleton, Eisenhower, Steve Jobs).  There are no stuffy theories here. Instead, the book jumps energetically between film references from the Wizard of Oz, Alfie and Superman to the leadership styles of World-Cup winning coaches Alf Ramsay and Clive Woodward. Speckled throughout are examples of ‘Liquid Leaders’, from people you know – like James Timpson, head of the UK-wide group of key-cutting and shoe repair outlets – to people we don’t know, including Fergus Findlay of Barnardo’s in Ireland. This book offers you a joyous diversion that pushes home important theory effortlessly.  It ends with practical exercises designed to galvanise the reader into identifying how they need to change, as well as a very useful annotated bibliography. Both of Damian’s books have been credited with helping people build their own houses, fight cancer and run marathons, so come on and be a fellow Liquid Leader!

Liquid Leadership: Inspirational lessons from the world's great leaders

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