As a former training partner of multi-Olympic gold medal champion Mo Farah, Adam Strong knows what it takes to transform 'good' athletes into world-class top 1% winners. Adam Strong works with a variety of organisations from up-and-coming SMEs to major companies. By applying those same elite athlete time-management, team-building and physical and mental health training techniques to the business world, he helps 'good' performers transform themselves into 'Gold Medal' enterprises and dominant forces within their field. This book will provide you with the techniques that will help ANY business, large or small, improve. Discover how a little physical fitness can result in a lot of business fitness by enabling you and your employees to generate more energy and focus. Discover how your organisation can become faster, more agile, more efficient and more competitive. Reach new heights you never thought possible by implementing the same goal-setting techniques that elite world-class champions use to achieve top 1% record-breaking performance levels.
Adam is known as the ‘Game Changer’, Best Selling Author, Entrepreneur, International Speaker and Founder of ‘The Game Changers Experience’ podcast. He currently runs 3 different businesses and enjoys working with business owners and entrepreneurs of small to medium sized companies in the professional services industry.
Adam is a Former Elite Athlete that trained with Olympic and World Champion Sir Mo Farah for 3 years. He takes the same skill-set that he learned as an elite athlete to teach his clients on how to increase profitability by building purpose led, results orientated and impactful businesses.
He is the author of three books ‘Move it or lose it’, ’Fit body fit business’ and ‘Play the game’. Adam has a podcast show called ‘The Game Changers Experience’ sharing tips and insights with business disruptors, thought leaders and athletes. Entwining elite sport with entrepreneurship.
Adam is hugely passionate about helping his clients in growing and scaling their businesses in a fast and strategic way. Tying that with helping people he believes is a great catalyst to creating results and success in life.
Adam is champion for supporting women and became the ‘Best Man’ for supporting women in business 2016. He has been featured the front cover of Influential People Magazine, Steer Magazine and Global Man magazine, BBC radio, the Huffington post, in People Management magazine, Forbes, HR Director and DiversityQ. He has interviewed influencers and thought leaders such as Jack Canfield, Marshall Goldsmith, Dr John Demartini, Chester Elton, Olympic athletes such Neil Fachie, Jonathan Horton and Kate Strong. He has shared the stage with celebrities such as John Travolta, Vanilla Ice, Calvin Klein, 50 cent and Dr Nido Qubein.
This book has a very clear purpose, that is to help CEOs, managers, employers and employees become more productive and ultimately improve to the standard of a gold medal winning business. The author uses his prior knowledge of business, entrepreneurship, coaching of top athletes and fitness to guide business leaders through the process of building both a healthy body and a healthy business.
Adam Strong introduces his ethos, his modus operandi and sets clear objectives for leaders, future leaders and businesses. In his own words this book will turn "good performers ... into Gold Medal enterprises and dominant forces within their field". He sets out 10 olympic champion winning techniques, that he has used with top athletes and with businesses, these start out with preventing burnout, then takes you through managing your team motivation, to identifying health issues your body may already be experiencing through to producing the winning formula for your business.
There is no doubt this book is a useful read for managers, however, it is probably not as life changing as the author wants you to believe it can be, for me it certainly didn’t make me want to book my first ever appointment with a personal trainer, although it did provide some food for thought, especially around preventing burnout.
The biggest annoyance with the book was the frequent grammatical errors, occasional spelling mistakes and the inconsistent use of UK and USA English, this book is an interesting read and contains some good advice, but it does need a proof read before the second edition is published.