Total Competition: Lessons in Strategy from Formula One Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Ross Brawn (Author), Adam Parr (Author, Narrator), Peter Noble (Narrator),

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Total Competition is the most compelling, comprehensive and revealing insight into what it takes to get to the top in Formula One that has ever been published.

Across four decades, Ross Brawn was one of the most innovative and successful technical directors and then team principals in Formula One. Leading Benetton, Ferrari, Honda, Brawn and Mercedes, he worked with drivers such as Michael Schumacher, Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton to make them world champions. In 2017, he was appointed F1's managing director, motor sports, by the sport's new owners, Liberty Media. Now, in this fascinating book written with Adam Parr (who was CEO and then chairman of Williams for five years), he looks back over his career and methods to assess how he did it and where occasionally he got things wrong.

Total Competition is a definitive portrait of modern motorsport. In the book, Brawn and Parr explore the unique pressures of Formula One, their battles with Bernie Ecclestone and the cut-throat world they inhabited, where coming second is never good enough. This book will appeal not only to the millions of Formula One fans who want to understand how Brawn operates; it will also provide many lessons in how to achieve your own business goals.

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7 hours and 11 minutes
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Ross Brawn, see all
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Adam Parr, see all
Audible release date

10 August 2017
Language

English
Publisher

Simon & Schuster Audio UK
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B073WFDQM4
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Unabridged
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Listening Length	7 hours and 11 minutes
Author	Ross Brawn, Adam Parr
Narrator	Adam Parr, Peter Noble
Whispersync for Voice	Ready
Audible.com.au Release Date	10 August 2017
Publisher	Simon & Schuster Audio UK
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B073WFDQM4
Best Sellers Rank	18,269 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 10 in Motor Sports (Audible Books & Originals) 46 in Motor Sports (Books) 109 in Sports Biographies (Audible Books & Originals)

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Mr Mark Elliott

A buy for hard core F1 fans but it misses the mark

Reviewed in Australia on 28 January 2021

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I was a little disappointed by this book. It tries to use the Art of War as its' guiding basis but it doesn't really work. It falls into the trap of providing a saying then having to explain the saying and still not getting the point across. It would have been better to be a interview book or just a biography and it is the conversation with Ross Brawn about his time in Formula One that is the most interesting. If you are a F1 fan then I would say buy it but don't have high expectations.

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Ronald N. James

A great read whether you are interested in F1 or not!

Reviewed in Australia on 6 July 2019

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From unpacking Sun Tzu to Napoleon this book is a great lesson in applied strategy and organisational / individual behaviour. Adam Parr unpacks his previous research using Ross Brawns fascinating experiences which results in a book which kept me engaged until the end.

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orderer

Not Ross Brawn

Reviewed in Australia on 8 May 2019

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If your buying this to get some Ross Brawn bit of genius, dont bother. This book is written by Adam Parr, with Adam Parr's thoughts and opinions, sprinkled with some comments and filtered interviews from Ross Brawn. Very disappointing.

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gareth beecher

Excellent piece

Reviewed in Australia on 7 March 2017

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This book is written by someone who is clearly highly intelligent, highly motivated, has an excellent understanding of his subject - its well worth the read (not just from a F1 perspective but from a management / strategic view).

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O D Jaeger

Excellent book. Well worth it even if your not an F1 fan.

Reviewed in Australia on 24 January 2017

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It does ring a bit of self for filling arguments, but it give's you a wonderful insight to the world of F1 and an excellent look at the idea of success.
I wonder if President Trump would agree?

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Daniele

Great book

Reviewed in Australia on 30 July 2021

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interesting book and well written

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Emerlist

A wasted opportunity

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 September 2018

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Adam Parr is a clever man who has been successful in a variety of ways. He has worked in mining in various places around the world, he has studied Law and practised at the Bar, he has gained a PhD in ancient history and he has been team principal of Williams F1. Unfortunately he is not a person who I am remotely interested in.
His PhD research was into ancient Chinese war theory ('The Art of War') and therein lies the problem with this book.
Parr obviously feels that his research merits a wider audience and he uses this book to achieve this.
Part of the book is a précis of Ross Brawn's career and this is interesting and enjoyable. Its only fault is that it could and should have been told more fully.
The rest of the book is a verbatim transcript of a conversation between Parr and Brawn where Parr attempts to draw a comparison between Brawn's racing strategy and the Chinese 'Art of War' as explained in his research paper.
A tenuous link at the best, and really rather heavy going. I found myself skipping chunks of it. I am surprised that Brawn allowed himself to be used in this way.
Another problem with this book is that it has half-told Brawn’s story and thus queered the pitch for a decent book about Brawn.

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Ian Howlett

You will enjoy this book a lot IF you are an F1 fan

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 December 2016

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A very enjoyable read for anyone (like me) who is deeply into Formula One.
The book is billed as being a look at strategy useful to those with little or no knowledge of F1, but in reality, unless you have a good knowledge of F1 I suspect that at least half the book will make little or no sense.

If the book were judged as a wider work on strategy, applicable to a wider audience, it would fail.
The pieces on strategy itself, including digressions into the Sun Zu, were for me very weak, and detracted from the book. They seemed to not really fit with the narrative; an example of a book trying to do too much.

The parts with Ross Brawn discussing his working practices were truly excellent, and the parts where he discusses his working practices with Michael Schumacher were particularly strong. His focus on discipline, rhythms, routines, and processes, are particularly worthwhile.

I found the book overly long. A bolder editor could have taken between 50 and 100 pages out of this book without doing any significant damage. Certainly the portions on military strategy could be removed (an odd digression that is not effective, and quite boring), but also tidying up some repetition.

The book is written in a Q&A format, which I found to be a refreshing and interesting way to present a book, giving it almost the feel of a magazine article.

15 people found this helpful

Interesting read on Ross Brawn, and the real behind scenes strategy battles of running F1 team management.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 August 2017

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After reading previous reviews I wasn't expecting such an interesting read ! Some of the behind the scenes stuff revealed by RB on the dealings of getting Brawn team going involving Behind his back deals make you realise what a shark infested business world is out there. Ross comes across as a genuinely good and honourable guy although maybe some of the Ferrari 'team orders' make you wonder if that is rose coloured glasses and there might be a slightly different side to that story ? RB doesn't pull his punches when discussing the drivers and team people he has worked with, interesting to read his thoughts on Jenson's mid 2009 season blip and what happened at Mercedes leading to his departure.
Previous comments about Adam Parr's sections led me to expect a low interest but I found it insightful and well explained while making lessons learned from military battles relevant.
Overall I found it a page turner so would fully recommend it.

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Mark

Such an easy and compelling read!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 July 2018

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As an F1 fan, I was interested to get Ross Brawn’s perspective on his F1 career, but what I didn’t anticipate was to have a book that makes you question your approach to sport more generally, business and even relationships.

The book is written as the transcript of a conversation, which takes a little while to get comfortable with, but the content is fascinating and wide ranging, with enough advice to count itself a self-help or management training book and enough specifics to be interesting to a die hard F1 fan.

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and one could not miss the fact that Ross Brawn is a very smart guy, given his work at Brawn GP team

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 March 2018

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I follow F1 since Senna days, and one could not miss the fact that Ross Brawn is a very smart guy, given his work at Brawn GP team.
Honda was withdrawing from F1 and Brawn with the help of a Mercedes engine and a brilliant car developed the year before, won the title.

What was really a delight for me was to discover in Ross a fine man, with principles and deep caring for people as well as for technical side of the stuff. I found some introduction from Parr were too long but the answers of Ross were clear and full of substance. Every fan of F1 would love the book as it gives insights much deeper than the regular articles about the sport. You get to know also the unseen (and ugly) sides of Toto and Nikki and Bernie, principles of management and working with people.

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