James Kerr – Building a culture of leadership and driving high performance when scaling a business

James Kerr is a best-selling author and an expert in leadership, teamwork, and high performance. He is the author of ‘Legacy’, the international bestseller, which analyses the unique culture of the world’s most successful sporting team, the All Blacks. The book has been described as ‘unputdownable’ by Bloomberg and The Daily Telegraph called it the ‘modern version of Vince Lombardi’s guides to coaching’ and says, ‘for those searching for genuine keys to team culture, it is manna from heaven.’

In his work, James addresses the transferable principles that drive exceptional outperformance. Using examples from his work with sport, the military and business, he argues that winning teams employ the same basic ideas; a relentless focus on excellence, a commitment to a collective cause, individual autonomy, trust initiative and accountability, candid communication, underpinned by a culture in which ‘leaders create leaders’.

As an advisory, he helps organisations ‘lift their game’: galvanising and inspiring their teams through standards and expectations, identity, belief and belonging, mindset and mental skills. As well as small, elite teams, Kerr addresses the specific challenges faced by larger, more diverse organisations. He has advised US and UK Special Forces, Formula 1 teams, America’s Cup crews, Premier League football managers, Olympic Performance Directors – as well as corporations ranging from Google to PayPal, McKinsey to Dyson, HSBC to Roche, Red Bull to Unilever, Shell to Boeing. His next book, Spearhead, explores ‘the principles of war for the business of leadership’, providing a fresh framework for leaders looking to turn culture into a ‘force multiplier’ for competitive advantage.

He is the co-founder of Fable Partners, the Leadership and Change Consultancy.

In today's conversation we will explore:

The importance of story to inspire engagement Three aspects of culture The importance of celebrating failure Knowing what you stand for The importance of leading from within Listen out for the WIN acronym and the Blue Head concept for performing effectively under pressure.

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“The stories we tell ourselves are the stories that others end up telling about us.”

Contact James

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-kerr-09a70bb/?originalSubdomain=uk 

Buy James’ Book – Legacy

https://mybook.to/Legacy-James-Kerr

Look out for James’ other upcoming books including Spearhead, About Everest and a follow up to Legacy.

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About the Host

Brendan is a global business leader who builds profitable, scalable businesses by delivering on his strong personal belief that anything is possible. Over seventeen years, twelve as CEO of CDE Group, he helped the company achieve 25x revenue growth and become an industry leader. During his time as CEO the company delivered almost £500 million ($750 million) cumulative revenue and £50 million ($75 million) cumulative profit from more than 90 countries. The company also generated considerable cash reserves and became a revered leader in its industry.

Driven by his own desire to inspire, connect and enable ambitious leaders of SMEs to scale with purpose, he co-founded Simple Scaling with Claire Colvin with whom he co-authored Simple Scaling: 10 Proven Principles to 10x your business. Brendan also acts as a Non-Executive Director to CDE Asia (part of CDE Group). In 2016, he was awarded the Institute of Directors, UK Young Director of the Year and Overall, Director of the Year. Brendan is also a regular keynote speaker, the host of the popular ScaleX™ Insider Podcast and is also a Wim Hof Instructor.

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