Hello friends, welcome back to the show, my guest today is Eddie Jones.

He's a head coach of England's Rugby Union team.

Eddie has played for Australia and coached the South Africa, Australia, Japan and England national teams.

After decades at the peak of elite sport, he's picked up a tip or two about how to lead a team and deal with setbacks.

And today we get to go through his biggest lessons for elite leadership.

Expect to learn the five values that every leader needs to have.

Eddie's non-negotiables for making him the best leader he can be.

Why he bought a samurai sword to attack some fruit with.

His tips on how to make a good first impression, how to deal with pressure,

how he copes with media scrutiny and much more.

This is a very interesting side of Eddie Jones.

If you have seen him in a press conference, he can be prickly, to say the least.

And yet this conversation, he's really warm.

You see a side of him that's coming through now, that's much more holistic, that's what more well-rounded.

It's obvious that he's really assessing his own performance, his coaching staff's performance,

and the players with such a level of granularity.

If this is what sport that only 20 years ago was, even the pros were basically amateurs,

if this is the pace at which it can develop and become sophisticated, it's going to be amazing.

The next rugby world cup is in 2023, and I would be very concerned if I was any team

going up against a coach who is putting this much effort into covering all of the bases.

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