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Jo is the first person to be awarded the CMI gold medal three times, for Mindset of Success; How to Manage and Leadership Skills Handbook.
He practices what he preaches as a leader: he has started seven NGOs with a collective turnover above $100million annually. He was a partner at Accenture; he started a bank, was sued for $12 billion and was the best nappy (diaper) salesman in Birmingham.
His research on leadership has taken him to the ends of the earth and resulted in Tribal Business School: what modern business can learn from traditional societies. He has worked with over 100 of the best , and a few of the worst, organisations on our planet and has interviewed everyone from spies to sportspeople as well as leaders around the world to find the essence of leadership.
His latest work is on Global Teams, which is the first book to look at the plumbing of globalisation: how global teams do and do not work.
It's easy to read and contains practical advice from an experience author. I like the points on how to work effectively and questions to ask to monitor our progress daily, annually and long term plans.
The first chapter on helpful phrases and methods to use when coaching clients and others around you was useful to remind myself of, the rest of the book felt a bit drawn out and lacking of concrete value.