Navigating the Impossible
Navigating the Impossible
Build Extraordinary Teams and Shatter Expectations
Edition: 1
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 22 October, 2019
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World-record endurance athlete and professional leadership coach Jason Caldwell draws on his amazing experiences to show how anyone can build and lead teams that accomplish incredible things.
As an adventurer who undertakes incredible challenges, such as rowing across the Atlantic or crossing the Namib Desert on foot, Jason Caldwell noticed how much of a pivotal role mistakes made in his record-breaking pursuits. The path to an ambitious goal is never a straight line. When mistakes inevitably happen, they can open up new options and choices. This book relays the crucial questions to ask when faced with any setback:
1. Is the failure something I have control over?
2. Is my goal still possible?
3. Do I want to keep going?
4. Is there another way to my goal?
5. Am I better, tougher, or smarter for this?
Caldwell draws on his amazing experiences to illustrate how these questions have helped him in literally death-defying situations. This is the first book to build a powerful business and personal success method out of the riveting and transformative failures of a true adventurer.
As an adventurer who undertakes incredible challenges, such as rowing across the Atlantic or crossing the Namib Desert on foot, Jason Caldwell noticed how much of a pivotal role mistakes made in his record-breaking pursuits. The path to an ambitious goal is never a straight line. When mistakes inevitably happen, they can open up new options and choices. This book relays the crucial questions to ask when faced with any setback:
1. Is the failure something I have control over?
2. Is my goal still possible?
3. Do I want to keep going?
4. Is there another way to my goal?
5. Am I better, tougher, or smarter for this?
Caldwell draws on his amazing experiences to illustrate how these questions have helped him in literally death-defying situations. This is the first book to build a powerful business and personal success method out of the riveting and transformative failures of a true adventurer.
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World-record endurance athlete and professional leadership coach Jason Caldwell draws on his amazing experiences to show how anyone can build and lead teams that accomplish incredible things.
As an adventurer who undertakes incredible challenges, such as rowing across the Atlantic or crossing the Namib Desert on foot, Jason Caldwell noticed how much of a pivotal role mistakes made in his record-breaking pursuits. The path to an ambitious goal is never a straight line. When mistakes inevitably happen, they can open up new options and choices. This book relays the crucial questions to ask when faced with any setback:
1. Is the failure something I have control over?
2. Is my goal still possible?
3. Do I want to keep going?
4. Is there another way to my goal?
5. Am I better, tougher, or smarter for this?
Caldwell draws on his amazing experiences to illustrate how these questions have helped him in literally death-defying situations. This is the first book to build a powerful business and personal success method out of the riveting and transformative failures of a true adventurer.
As an adventurer who undertakes incredible challenges, such as rowing across the Atlantic or crossing the Namib Desert on foot, Jason Caldwell noticed how much of a pivotal role mistakes made in his record-breaking pursuits. The path to an ambitious goal is never a straight line. When mistakes inevitably happen, they can open up new options and choices. This book relays the crucial questions to ask when faced with any setback:
1. Is the failure something I have control over?
2. Is my goal still possible?
3. Do I want to keep going?
4. Is there another way to my goal?
5. Am I better, tougher, or smarter for this?
Caldwell draws on his amazing experiences to illustrate how these questions have helped him in literally death-defying situations. This is the first book to build a powerful business and personal success method out of the riveting and transformative failures of a true adventurer.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Quit Like A Winner
- Lead by Emotion
- Win Before You Race
- Gathering Points
- Four Questions
- Beyond Motivation
- Celebrate Connection
- Eat Breakfast
- Multiply The Multipliers
- Eighty-Mile Days
- Epilogue The Process of Processing
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- About the Author
Review quote
“Navigating the Impossible is full of insightful lessons about team building pulled from the experiences of rowing to eventually winning the 2016 Talisker Whiskey Atlantic Challenge. The annual race that begins in early December is indeed the world's toughest row. The death-defying challenge of it all and the emotion of the race is captured well in Caldwell's retelling of the adventure.”
–LeadershipNow™
“Takeaway: As a leader, ‘your time is better spent engaging the emotions of your team than appealing to the sense of strategy or their professional intuition.'”
-Jim Pawlak, “Biz Books”
“Jason inspired our leadership team to reach for our potential. He is a great storyteller, kind, humble and hugely inspiring. We connected better as a team, built a great team spirit and culture, and delivered outstanding results because of the work we did with Jason.”
-Martin Buckley, VP/GM Nike Global Football
“Jason Caldwell offers practical, powerful, and poignant insights about building high performance teams, and just as importantly, about how to bring out the best in yourself. His own story of team triumph is one of the most moving and resonant that I've heard. He offers one of the most meaningful, memorable and worthwhile messages available on leadership development.”
-Paul Ingram, Kravis Professor of Business, Columbia Business School
“Jason's character comes out to all who know his work. His drive to achieve his goals, perseverance through extreme adversity, determination to win and a unique ability to turn failure into a powerful motivational force, set him apart from 99 percent of the people I've met. No doubt one of the most inspirational adventurers and leaders of today.”
-Chris Koch, CEO, Carlisle Companies Incorporated
–LeadershipNow™
“Takeaway: As a leader, ‘your time is better spent engaging the emotions of your team than appealing to the sense of strategy or their professional intuition.'”
-Jim Pawlak, “Biz Books”
“Jason inspired our leadership team to reach for our potential. He is a great storyteller, kind, humble and hugely inspiring. We connected better as a team, built a great team spirit and culture, and delivered outstanding results because of the work we did with Jason.”
-Martin Buckley, VP/GM Nike Global Football
“Jason Caldwell offers practical, powerful, and poignant insights about building high performance teams, and just as importantly, about how to bring out the best in yourself. His own story of team triumph is one of the most moving and resonant that I've heard. He offers one of the most meaningful, memorable and worthwhile messages available on leadership development.”
-Paul Ingram, Kravis Professor of Business, Columbia Business School
“Jason's character comes out to all who know his work. His drive to achieve his goals, perseverance through extreme adversity, determination to win and a unique ability to turn failure into a powerful motivational force, set him apart from 99 percent of the people I've met. No doubt one of the most inspirational adventurers and leaders of today.”
-Chris Koch, CEO, Carlisle Companies Incorporated
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