Tribal Business School: Lessons in Business Survival and Success from the Ultimate Survivors, by Jo Owen

Published by Wiley, March 08

Tribal Business School, the new book by Jo Owen (bestselling international author of How to lead), is a series of journeys in search of the ultimate business secret: the secret of survival and success. From some of the best, and one or two of the worst, organisations on our planet, to tribes in Papua New Guinea, Tuareg in the Sahara, Saami in the Arctic and nomads in Mongolia. The book's journeys show why tribes survive in extremely harsh conditions for generations, while business empires rise and fall steadily.

In the last 25 years, over 80% of the top companies in the USA and the UK have either been overtaken or taken over: perhaps we can learn something from the ultimate survivors. Tribal Business School unpicks every element of business survival and success, including:

- The art of unfair competition: how to kill a lion and your competition
- Leadership: from charisma and inspiration to courage, contribution and responsibility
- Organisation and the end of excellence: the search for fit and focus
- Culture and values: respect for the individual or respect for the community?
- Information Technology: trust the messenger, not the message.

Tribal Business School is highly informative, wholly original and is at severe risk of being entertaining... Find out more in this message from the author:

Find out more at the book's website:
www.tribal-business.com

See stunning colour photography from the book at flickr.com

About the author
Jo Owen is a successful business leader, social entrepreneur and speaker. He is a co-founder of three charities: Teach First, which is now one of the UK’s top graduate recruiters, Future Leaders which develops head teachers for urban schools and StartUp which helps offenders start their own businesses on release from prison. As a business leader, Jo led a business in Japan for three years; he was a partner at Accenture and was the architect of what is now HBOS business banking. He was also the best nappy salesman in Birmingham and put the blue speckle in Daz. He has written extensively for the business press and his books include How to Lead and How to Manage. He is in demand as a speaker on leadership, change, organisation, strategy and the corporate tribe.

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ISBN: 978-0-470-72781-2;  Hardback;  £19.99/€28

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