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The Long Win named as one of FT’s Business Books of the Year

Financial Times

Cath Bishop‘s The Long Win is named as one of the Financial Times‘s Best Business Books of 2020.

Best books of 2020: Business

Former diplomat and Olympic oarswoman Bishop argues, from her own and others’ experience, that a zero-sum approach to winning can be counter-productive. Instead, by being clearer about what matters, and concentrating on personal growth and collaboration, it is possible to achieve a more fulfilling, longer-lasting success.

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Cath Bishop in The Telegraph

The Telegraph

Cath Bishop, author of The Long Win, speaks to Telegraph Sports about why our obsession with winning doesn’t always serve us.

Former GB rower Cath Bishop – ‘I was left with that sort of perennial silver-medal torment’

“I basically retired,” she says. “I was a mess. I tried to come back after a bit of a break, but I was just destroyed by my self-belief. I was defined by the Sydney performance. Nobody said, ‘Now let’s see what we can do’.”