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Winning Not Fighting
- Why You Need to Rethink Success and How You Achieve It with the Ancient Art of Wing Tsun
- Narrated by: John Vincent, Sifu Julian Hitch
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
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Summary
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Winning Not Fighting draws on the philosophy of Wing Tsun, an ancient Chinese martial art, to offer a profound and practical guide to achieving success at work, life and business.
By explaining what these teachings reveal about decision-making, professional relationships, personal targets and positivity, it challenges some of our deepest held assumptions and forces us to unlearn many ideas that inform our current ideas on professional success.
Why, for example, do we refer to business through a lens of conflict? Why does winning always require confrontation, competition and a loser? John Vincent and Julian Hitch challenge our ingrained assumptions about success and achievement to to guide us through a path of self-cultivation using the eight wisdoms of Wing Tsun.
John Vincent, the cofounder of LEON, has applied these mantras to his healthy fast-food empire with enormous success. In Winning Not Fighting, he collaborates with Wing Tsun master Sifu Julian Hitch to sculpt this timeless wisdom into a practical and accessible guide to achieving success for your business.
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- Mr D M Lilly
- 09-07-20
Absolute brilliance!!
Loved every minute of the book!!! So open honest and thought provoking book, def rec to anyone for general development or leadership
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- Vincent Barton
- 07-02-20
An excellent book for business people!
This book is a must for anyone who wants to improve their life or business. Martial arts enthusiasts will also get a lot from this book but perhaps not find the business improvement case studies as interesting.
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- A Guttman
- 17-02-20
More promotional material than valuable tools
I wanted to love this book and hoped there would be some valuable principles throughout. Instead, it was mostly a business case study of Leon and a handful of other fast casual restaurants with a side serving about Enneagrams (personality tests). The author includes self-promotional anecdotes to support his beliefs, but they’re more effective as marketing tools. Very disappointing book.
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- Salimide
- 27-02-22
Rollercoaster ride of a book
I was so happy when I started listening to this book - I love martial arts and what John said, seemed to make perfect sense. I didn't understand that business talk is based on the "The art of war" and the approach is detrimental to customers, other business owners and staff. The words "targeting your customer", "war room" and others aren't very positive. Instead focus on being yourself, working on a unique product and work with the customer. You shoudn't shame someone into buying your product. The book started off funny and entertaining.
However, then he talks about his restaurant chain, how he lets his staff take personality tests, how they have accupunture which seems to be like a deep therapy and can bring up previous trauma. Maybe it's really good for the company and the way the staff deal with each other but it brings up questions, how invasive this is, how applicable to other situations and companies. You don't hear the opinions from the staff.
So my plan was to give it a fairly bad review and get my money back. However, then I thought "Maybe I should give him some slack. He is just talking about the situation he knows, about his experiences." I kept listening to the book and I am glad I did as it was giving other examples and viewpoints. I might even have to relisten to the book to pick up on stuff I have missed first time around.
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- Amazon Customer
- 17-01-24
Inspiring ❤️
As a French Pâtisserie Master and entrepreneur I found this book really inspiring.
Life is hard, running your own business is hard.
John Vincent did not have it easy either.
But with implementing a great culture in Leon and because he failed many time, he succeeded.
I would recommend this book for anyone really. Is you are part of a team, if you are a freelance or if you run your own company.
There is many life/business lesson to be learnt in Winning Not Fighting
Thank you John I love it!
Julien
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- David Andrew
- 12-02-21
A book you should read
I love ancient martial art, and everything ancient speaks of wisdom, when applied by the 21st-century person, can result in something spectacular.
This book just does that.
Listen or read and then make notes. I found it the best way to digest its content.
Thank you, John and Julian 🙏😊🇬🇧🥁🎸
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- Catherine
- 02-05-20
lots of lessons
As a very stressed senior manager, there were many lessons to learn from this book - mainly about myself. I just need to put the advice into practice now. Its a week since I finished it, and already the book has made a difference to my outlook and stress levels - even as objectively measured by my watch! Well worth the read, I can thoroughly recommend it.
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- Robbie
- 27-02-21
Fantastic read.
Being a 24 year old learning and soaking up as much info as I can I found this book incredibly useful.
John and Julians description of Wing Tsun interwoven with a successful business career provides an intriguing way of dealing with the stress, anxieties and problems that you might face yourself at work.
Give this book a read.
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- Anonymous User
- 20-10-22
Two readers. One good. One terrible.
wasn't a bad book, only it was totally ruined by splitting reading in two with one reader inaudible.
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- Lina Brooks
- 24-01-21
Ego trip
While started on a great note, soon moved to an ego stroking and self righteousness..... I wouldn't recommend this book at all.
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