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Welcome to this episode of The How of Business.

This is Henry Lopez, and my guest today is John Colm.

John, welcome to the show. Well, thank you, Andrew. John is a business owner, a team productivity

expert, a bestselling author, and a former intelligence officer. He's originally from Australia,

and John co-founded team results in 1996.

It was driven by the frustration with the team development options that were then available to businesses and government.

And with encouragement from early clients, he and his partner applied their academic training and practical leadership experience to build the unique approach to team

productivity improvement that eventually became team results. The company grew rapidly, expanded to a

wholly owned branch in the United States in 2005, and now operates as a very successful business

in both hemispheres.

In 2004, John and his partner Peter wrote the global bestseller,

Crocodile Charlie and the Holy Grail.

I have not had a chance to read it,

but it's a consolidation of 10 years of work with peak clients

into a pretty compelling story about team productivity,

leadership in business and government, and happiness at work. John is a qualified,

qualified, I should say, in psychology from the University of Melbourne, and in mathematics

and statistics from the U.S, and in mathematics and statistics from the US National Cryptologic School.

I knew I was going to stumble on that one,

cryptologic school, where he also taught on the faculty.

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