The Responsibility Ethic

12 Strategies Exceptional People Use to Do the Work and Make Success Happen

De: Adam Kreek

Narrado por: Adam Kreek

Duración: 6 h y 57 m

Resumen del Editor

Learn the 12 principles of self-leadership, the most important factor in driving results and achieving success.

Adam Kreek has consistently defied the odds to find greater achievement in all facets of his life. After 73 days alone at sea, Kreek and his expedition team survived a capsize in the Bermuda Triangle, the subject of the Dateline NBC documentary Capsized. Four years earlier, Kreek won Olympic Gold with his eight-man rowing team. A two-time Olympian, he holds 60 international medals and multiple Hall of Fame inductions.

In The Responsibility Ethic, he shares the 12 essential principles of self-leadership that have fueled his incredible accomplishments - and shows you how to master these principles too.

Kreek is a powerful guide who teaches us how to realize our full potential at any stage of our career and lives. Drawing on his eight years of intensive Olympic training, near-death ocean expeditions, and career as an executive coach and corporate trainer, Kreek shares winning strategies from the trenches, where the strongest minds prevail.

A compelling narrative with powerful instruction and direct application, The Responsibility Ethic challenges business leaders globally to chase their ambitions and to take responsibility for their success.

©2019 Adam Kreek (P)2021 Adam Kreek

Great mix of stories, principles and humour

Great book all around. Adam does a tremendous job of blending, stories, principles and humour to keep the reader/listener engaged and coming back for more. This is how a required read for my clients and employees. Rob Friday

Honest Leadership

An honest leadership book written by someone who has been through the test multiple times in multiple ways.
The book is broken down very clearly which allows the lessons to be distilled an onboard daily much easier than similarly styled books on leadership and responsibility.
Adam has been very thoughtful and precise in how he presents his lessons and it makes for a very valuable tool!

Very Powerful and Motivating

Adam’s Kreek hit on so many topics from learning and even liking to fail, how to stay motivated and enjoy the grind, importance of sleep and diet, and much more. All while telling his fascinating and very entertaining life story. I will be reading and listening to this book multiple times to try and capture as much of Kreek’s wisdom as possible.

Helpful and inspirational

This book is full of insights, inspiration and motivational stories. I highly recommend this for anyone who is ready to hold themselves to a high standard and make success happen.

Great Audiobook would benefit from a PDF

The content Adam presents is fantastic. It would be nice to have a PDF included to reference the content in the future since it's an audiobook.

Great manual for reaching your peak.

A must read for anyone in trying to better themselves as well as the teams they are a part of. The book bounces back and forth between strategies for growth and first hand accounts of Adam exemplifying those insights through his own rights of passage as a gold winning Olympic athlete, entrepreneur, and father. While on the outside the target audience might seem to be people in corporate leadership roles as Adam presents certain methods in ways that are easy to present at the next board meeting, the deeper truths contained within speak to anyone trying to improve their ability to set and achieve goals. Adam uses contemporary studies along with Western and Eastern philosophy to craft a roadmap for success and shows where those insights helped him reach his peak.

A great storyteller with action-heavy advice

I first discovered Kreek on YouTube. I remember his story telling and his personality shining through, and it was one of the biggest takeaways I’ve had YouTube.

Fast forward, I was told about this book and I instantly purchased it. Not surprisingly, the book is easy to go through but it also compels you to take a moment between chapters and to think through how I would want to implement these ideas.

I’m not yet done but thought I’d share my enthusiasm and will update this once I’m done!

Great Book!

Great information and actionable steps to improve your life and business. I liked how he used the story of rowing across the Atlantic Ocean to express and relate the ethics to real life events. Made for a much more enjoyable listen. The book also had me laughing out loud multiple times. Highly recommend.

Great advice delivered with warmth, humor and clarity.

Full disclosure, I’m one of the people Adam mentions in this book.  I rowed across an ocean with him.  What that might take away in objectivity it might give insight over someone coming to this book with no connection.  In spite of being a bit allergic to the self-help genre I chose to pick up Adam’s book because I’ve known Adam for 15 years was curious to see how all the conversations, we’ve shared over the years translated to the page.
 
We prepared for and executed a row across the Atlantic Ocean that almost ended in disaster.  We were fortunate, and in a weirdly beautiful way turned into a success because of how we handled it…plus a lot of luck and/or divine intervention.  In the multiyear process of preparing, doing, and recovering from that we’ve had a lot of hard physical work, laughs, tough meetings, danger and a whole lot of banter.  That’s one of the best parts about rowing across an ocean with someone, it’s the opportunity to get to know them well. I’ve seen Adam close to his very best, and close to his very worst.
 
One of the things that impressed me as we first got to know each other (and made me roll my eyes a bit) was that Adam was always consuming other self-help books.  He would think about them, apply them to his lived experience, challenge, tweak, test, and make the ideas his own.  Inevitably some of these ideas would come out in some kind of philosophical discussion on a training row, or some discipline, or way of thinking that would be applicable to tackling the challenge of rowing an ocean. Sometimes these sounded cheesy, some flopped, but many really helped.  Motivational speaking is his craft, and he is absolutely dedicated to it.  Reading this book was like seeing the best of what he knows to be true now, distilled.
 
After spending four years on a project with him and 73 days in a 30-foot boat with him I thought I might be immune to whatever he had to say.  However, in the first few chapters I’d found myself inspired to start drawing up a list of to-dos and reframing some of the challenges in my life. 
 
In person, Adam is a friendly, smart, gregarious, genuine, and funny. He’s not a superficial friend.  Reading this book reminded me of those delightful times we’ve sat down over a good meal, and a bottle of wine and had one of those witty, thoughtful, and enlightening conversations that’s left me feeling a bit wiser and motivated at the end of it. 
 
I had such a good time with that I might give other self-help books a try.  Ill also be interested to see if Adam rereleases the book once he’s older and garnered new live experiences and perspectives to draw from.

Excellent Narration

I came away from this book with lots of actionable takeaways. Adam has lived a rather interesting life and has a lot to offer. His narration is excellent and keeps the listener engaged. Highly recommend!!