Dan Kieran

The Surfboard

How Using My Hands Helped Unlock My Mind

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The Surfboard is Dan's Kieran account of a week he spent in Cornwall building a seven-foot surfboard, even though he had never surfed in his life.Interspersed with the story of making the board - the intricate craft he had to learn, and the clarity of mind that came with that challenge - are reflections on the last six years; the obstacles, rewards and realisations he encountered while starting and then running a successful company.He went to Cornwall at a time when he felt he had reached the limit of his development at a person and as a leader: he had to find a way to push beyond his preconception of what he could do.This startlingly honest… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-78352-640-6
EAN: 9781783526406
Produktnummer: 25295911
Verlag: Unbound
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 112 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 4'545 KB

Über den Autor

Dan Kieran, described as a 'true disruptor' by Richard Branson, is the co-founder and CEO of Unbound.com, the award-winning crowdfunding publishing platform that brings authors and readers together, and the publisher of this book. He is the author of twelve books, including the Sunday Times bestseller Crap Towns (the first viral internet phenomenon to turn into a bestselling book), The Idle Traveller (the bestselling Slow Travel: Die Kunst des Reisens in Germany) and Three Men in a Float (the story of his journey across England in a 1957 electric milk float). A travel writer for the Guardian, The Times, the Telegraph and Die Zeit, he also gives talks and workshops on raising money, entrepreneurship and how to have ideas.@dan_kieran