Dove nasce una grande cultura aziendale? Come si fa a costruirla e sostenerla? E in caso di bisogno, aggiustarla? Daniel Coyle, autore del best seller Piccolo manuale del talento, risponde a queste domande addentrandosi in alcune delle organizzazioni di maggior successo al mondo e rivelando cosa le fa funzionare. Il segreto per generare coesione e cooperazione sta nella costruzione di ambienti emotivamente sicuri, in cui le fragilità sono condivise e viene stabilito uno scopo chiaro: in questo modo gruppi di lavoro diversi funzionano come fossero un'unica mente. Prendendo spunto da esempi che spaziano dai Navy SEAL, a Google e all'e-commerce Zappos fino a un'audace banda di ladri di gioielli, l'autore condivide strategie per innescare l'apprendimento, costruire la fiducia e guidare il cambiamento positivo. Quindi, attraverso il racconto di esperienze di fallimento illustra cosa non fare e fornisce consigli per neutralizzare una cultura tossica. Il codice della collaborazione offre una tabella di marcia per creare un ambiente in cui l'innovazione fiorisce, i problemi vengono risolti e le aspettative superate. Indipendentemente dalle dimensioni e dagli obiettivi dei team, questo libro insegna i principi per trasformare gli individui in gruppi capaci di realizzare insieme cose straordinarie.

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“The holy grail for disillusioned cycling fans . . . The book’s power is in the collective details, all strung together in a story that is told with such clear-eyed conviction that you never doubt its veracity. . . . The Secret Race isn’t just a game changer for the Lance Armstrong myth. It’s the game ender.”—Outside

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD

The Secret Race is the book that rocked the world of professional cycling—and exposed, at long last, the doping culture surrounding the sport and its most iconic rider, Lance Armstrong. Former Olympic gold medalist Tyler Hamilton was once one of the world’s top-ranked cyclists—and a member of Lance Armstrong’s inner circle. Over the course of two years, New York Times bestselling author Daniel Coyle conducted more than two hundred hours of interviews with Hamilton and spoke with numerous teammates, rivals, and friends. The result is an explosive page-turner of a book that takes us deep inside a shadowy, fascinating, and surreal world of unscrupulous doctors, anything-goes team directors, and athletes so relentlessly driven to win that they would do almost anything to gain an edge. For the first time, Hamilton recounts his own battle with depression and tells the story of his complicated relationship with Lance Armstrong. This edition features a new Afterword, in which the authors reflect on the developments within the sport, and involving Armstrong, over the past year. The Secret Race is a courageous, groundbreaking act of witness from a man who is as determined to reveal the hard truth about his sport as he once was to win the Tour de France.

With a new Afterword by the authors

“Loaded with bombshells and revelations.”—VeloNews

“[An] often harrowing story . . . the broadest, most accessible look at cycling’s drug problems to date.”—The New York Times

“ ‘If I cheated, how did I get away with it?’ That question, posed to SI by Lance Armstrong five years ago, has never been answered more definitively than it is in Tyler Hamilton’s new book.”—Sports Illustrated

“Explosive.”—The Daily Telegraph (London)

Come posso fare meglio? A chiunque si sia mai posto la domanda, questo piccolo libro offre una ricetta semplice e testata: 52 direttive concise per allenare e sviluppare il talento, in qualsiasi disciplina, cominciando dall'imitazione, passando per la voglia di sbagliare e applicando le tecniche dei migliori per raggiungere l'esecuzione ottimale. La nuova scienza dello sviluppo del talento ha infatti dimostrato che le nostre capacità non dipendono dai geni (non solo almeno) ma dalla pratica, e che questa, unita alla motivazione, porta alla crescita. Che si sia genitori o coach, artisti, sportivi o imprenditori, le mosse proposte, ispirate dall'esperienza dei luoghi di maggior sviluppo dei talenti nel mondo - da Harvard al Barcellona Football Club - permetteranno a tutti di dare il meglio di sé e di raggiungere i propri obiettivi.

Uno sguardo definitivo, un viaggio dritto al cuore del ciclismo professionistico. Il libro confessione dell'ex oro olimpico Tyler Hamilton ci racconta l'epoca più buia dello sport, un'epoca segnata dall'uso e dall'abuso di sostanze e pratiche barbare - cortisone e steroidi, EPO e trasfusioni -, un'epoca che ha un nome e una faccia, quella di Lance Armstrong, suo compagno di squadra e poi rivale, insieme padrone e schiavo di un sistema diabolico, creato, governato, protetto e perpetrato da connivenze e coperture ai più alti livelli. Un libro che ha riscritto la storia del ciclismo, che ha costretto Lance Armstrong a confessare e ne ha affossato il mito con rivelazioni sconvolgenti. Un libro che coinvolge i nomi al vertice e che ci porta, per la prima volta così in profondità, dentro un mondo surreale popolato da medici privi di scrupoli, machiavellici direttori sportivi e corridori spinti a essere tanto disperatamente ambiziosi da fare (e farsi) di tutto pur di salire nel gradino più alto e vestire una maglia: gialla, rosa, iridata che sia. Una coraggiosa testimonianza a cuore aperto di un uomo e delle terribili scelte per (r)esistere in un ambiente in cui vincere è sopravvivere, di un mondo governato dall'etica feroce del vincere a ogni costo, un mondo in cui gli atleti sono spinti a una corsa folle per aumentare le prestazioni, con conseguenze esiziali: doping, depressione, in alcuni casi suicidio.

WINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD

The Secret Race is a definitive look at the world of professional cycling—and the doping issue surrounding this sport and its most iconic rider, Lance Armstrong—by former Olympic gold medalist Tyler Hamilton and New York Times bestselling author Daniel Coyle.

Over the course of two years, Coyle conducted more than two hundred hours of interviews with Hamilton and spoke candidly with numerous teammates, rivals, and friends. The result is an explosive book that takes us, for the first time, deep inside a shadowy, fascinating, and surreal world of unscrupulous doctors, anything-goes team directors, and athletes so relentlessly driven to succeed that they would do anything—and take any risk, physical, mental, or moral—to gain the edge they need to win.

Tyler Hamilton was once one of the world’s best-liked and top-ranked cyclists—a fierce competitor renowned among his peers for his uncanny endurance and epic tolerance for pain. In the 2003 Tour de France, he finished fourth despite breaking his collarbone in the early stages—and grinding eleven of his teeth down to the nerves along the way. He started his career with the U.S. Postal Service team in the 1990s and quickly rose to become Lance Armstrong’s most trusted lieutenant, and a member of his inner circle. For the first three of Armstrong’s record seven Tour de France victories, Hamilton was by Armstrong’s side, clearing his way. But just weeks after Hamilton reached his own personal pinnacle—winning the gold medal at the 2004 Olympics—his career came to a sudden, ignominious end: He was found guilty of doping and exiled from the sport.

From the exhilaration of his early, naïve days in the peloton, Hamilton chronicles his ascent to the uppermost reaches of this unforgiving sport. In the mid-1990s, the advent of a powerful new blood-boosting drug called EPO reshaped the world of cycling, and a relentless, win-at-any-cost ethos took root. Its psychological toll would drive many of the sport’s top performers to substance abuse, depression, even suicide. For the first time ever, Hamilton recounts his own battle with clinical depression, speaks frankly about the agonizing choices that go along with the decision to compete at a world-class level, and tells the story of his complicated relationship with Lance Armstrong.

A journey into the heart of a never-before-seen world, The Secret Race is a riveting, courageous act of witness from a man who is as determined to reveal the hard truth about his sport as he once was to win the Tour de France.

The Little Book of Talent is a manual for building a faster brain and a better you. It is an easy-to-use handbook of scientifically proven, field-tested methods to improve skills—your skills, your kids' skills, your organization's skills—in sports, music, art, math, and business. The product of five years of reporting from the world's greatest talent hotbeds and interviews with successful master coaches, it distills the daunting complexity of skill development into 52 clear, concise directives. Whether you're age 10 or 100, whether you're on the sports field or the stage, in the classroom or the corner office, this is an essential guide for anyone who ever asked, “How do I get better?”

“The Little Book of Talent should be given to every graduate at commencement, every new parent in a delivery room, every executive on the first day of work. It is a guidebook—beautiful in its simplicity and backed by hard science—for nurturing excellence.”—Charles Duhigg, bestselling author of The Power of Habit
 
“It's so juvenile to throw around hyperbolic terms such as 'life-changing,' but there's no other way to describe The Little Book of Talent. I was avidly trying new things within the first half hour of reading it and haven't stopped since. Brilliant. And yes: life-changing.”—Tom Peters, co-author of In Search of Excellence

Daniel Coyle spent the last few years traveling around the world and meeting with top coaches, teachers and neurologists in order to unlock the secret of how greatness happens. Now, he has taken his groundbreaking research and boiled it down to the essentials: 52 simple, proven rules for developing and growing talent in sports, art, music, business, or just about anything.
 
 Supported by cutting-edge science and the wisdom of some of the world's leading trainers from a variety of fields, The Little Book of Talent shows readers how to make the most progress in the least amount of time by using techniques that play into the way our brains are wired to learn. It's an indispensible handbook that every coach, teacher, manager, athlete, musician, and student will want to own.

Lance Armstrong's War is the extraordinary story of greatness pushed to its limits; a vivid behind-the-scenes portrait of perhaps the most accomplished athlete of our time as he competes in the toughest sporting event on the planet. The incomparable will to win that famously lifted Armstrong beyond his humble Texas roots, beyond cancer, and to unparalleled heights of success is revealed by acclaimed journalist Daniel Coyle in new and startling dimensions. It is the true story of a superlative sports figure fighting on all fronts -- made newly vulnerable by age, fate, fame, doping allegations, a painful divorce, and an unprecedented army of challengers -- while mastering the exceedingly difficult trick of being Lance Armstrong, a combination of world-class athlete, celebrity, regular guy, and, for many Americans, secular saint.

A fascinating journey through the little-known landscape of professional cycling, Lance Armstrong's War provides a hugely insightful look into the often inspiring, always surprising core of a remarkable athlete and the world that shapes him.

What is the secret of talent? How do we unlock it? In this groundbreaking work, journalist and New York Times bestselling author Daniel Coyle provides parents, teachers, coaches, businesspeople—and everyone else—with tools they can use to maximize potential in themselves and others.

Whether you’re coaching soccer or teaching a child to play the piano, writing a novel or trying to improve your golf swing, this revolutionary book shows you how to grow talent by tapping into a newly discovered brain mechanism.

Drawing on cutting-edge neurology and firsthand research gathered on journeys to nine of the world’s talent hotbeds—from the baseball fields of the Caribbean to a classical-music academy in upstate New York—Coyle identifies the three key elements that will allow you to develop your gifts and optimize your performance in sports, art, music, math, or just about anything.

• Deep Practice Everyone knows that practice is a key to success. What everyone doesn’t know is that specific kinds of practice can increase skill up to ten times faster than conventional practice.

• Ignition We all need a little motivation to get started. But what separates truly high achievers from the rest of the pack? A higher level of commitment—call it passion—born out of our deepest unconscious desires and triggered by certain primal cues. Understanding how these signals work can help you ignite passion and catalyze skill development.

• Master Coaching What are the secrets of the world’s most effective teachers, trainers, and coaches? Discover the four virtues that enable these “talent whisperers” to fuel passion, inspire deep practice, and bring out the best in their students.

These three elements work together within your brain to form myelin, a microscopic neural substance that adds vast amounts of speed and accuracy to your movements and thoughts. Scientists have discovered that myelin might just be the holy grail: the foundation of all forms of greatness, from Michelangelo’s to Michael Jordan’s. The good news about myelin is that it isn’t fixed at birth; to the contrary, it grows, and like anything that grows, it can be cultivated and nourished.

Combining revelatory analysis with illuminating examples of regular people who have achieved greatness, this book will not only change the way you think about talent, but equip you to reach your own highest potential.

Presents a plan for unlocking human potential and acquiring skills through the right kinds of practice, coaching, and motivation.