Leadership Consultant and Author
James Kerr is a British leadership consultant, speaker, and coach who works with elite teams including the US Special Forces and Google. His bestselling book Legacy draws on time embedded with New Zealand's All Blacks rugby team to distil fifteen powerful lessons on culture, purpose, and sustained high performance.
by James Kerr
James Kerr goes inside the New Zealand All Blacks - the most successful sporting team in history with a 77% winning record over more than a century - to extract 15 powerful lessons in leadership, culture, and sustained excellence. Through concepts like 'Sweep the Sheds' (leaders do the menial work) and 'No Dickheads' (character over talent), Kerr reveals how the All Blacks built an organisational culture of humility, purpose, and collective accountability that transcends individual eras and players.
The books James Kerr references, cites, and recommends most frequently.
by Bill Walsh
Walsh reveals that obsessing over the scoreboard is a losing strategy. Build the right culture, set exacting standards of performance, and the results will follow as a natural consequence.
by Jim Collins
Collins studied why some good companies become great and others do not. The answer: disciplined people, disciplined thought, and disciplined action, not bold transformation programmes.
by Andrew Grove
Grove distils Intel's management philosophy into actionable principles. Output is what matters - a manager's job is to increase the output of their team and adjacent teams.
by L. David Marquet
Marquet transformed a struggling submarine by replacing command-and-control with intent-based leadership. Giving control to the people closest to the information unleashed extraordinary results.
by Patrick Lencioni
Lencioni uses a leadership fable to diagnose five interconnected failures that cripple teams: absence of trust, fear of conflict, lack of commitment, avoidance of accountability, and inattention to results.
Who James draws from, and who draws from James — aggregated across every book in this collection. Counts show the number of citation links, not the depth of each one.