ob Burg informiert über Themen, die für den Erfolg der heutigen Geschäftsleute entscheidend sind. Er spricht für Unternehmen und Verbände auf der ganzen Welt, darunter Fortune-500-Unternehmen, Franchise-Unternehmen und zahlreiche Direktvertriebsorganisationen.
Bob spricht regelmäßig vor einem Publikum von 50 bis 16. 000 Zuhörern und teilt die Plattform mit namhaften Persönlichkeiten, darunter die wichtigsten Vordenker von heute, Persönlichkeiten aus dem Fernsehen, olympische Athleten und politische Führer, darunter ein ehemaliger Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten.
Obwohl er jahrelang für sein Buch "Endless Referrals" (Endlose Empfehlungen) bekannt war, hat in den letzten Jahren vor allem seine Business-Parabel "The Go-Giver" (zusammen mit John David Mann) die Fantasie seiner Leser/innen beflügelt.
"The Go-Giver", ein Bestseller des Wall Street Journal und der BusinessWeek, hat sich über 500. 000 Mal verkauft. Seit seiner Veröffentlichung hat es sich durchgehend in den Top 25 der 800ceoread's Business Book Bestseller List gehalten. Es wurde in 21 Sprachen übersetzt. Es wurde auf Platz 10 der Inc. Magazine auf Platz 10 der Liste der motivierendsten Bücher, die je geschrieben wurden, und auf der HubSpot-Liste der 20 am besten bewerteten Verkaufsbücher aller Zeiten.
Bob ist Autor einer Reihe von Büchern über Verkauf, Marketing und Einflussnahme, von denen insgesamt weit über eine Million Exemplare verkauft wurden.
Die American Management Association ernannte Bob zu einem der Top 30 Leaders in Business und Richtopia zählte ihn zu den 200 einflussreichsten Autoren der Welt.
Bob ist ein Befürworter, Unterstützer und Verteidiger des Systems des freien Unternehmertums, denn er glaubt, dass die Höhe des Geldes, das jemand verdient, direkt proportional dazu ist, wie vielen Menschen er dient.
Before turning to business and journalism, he forged a successful career as a concert cellist and prize-winning composer. At fifteen he won the prestigious BMI Awards to Student Composers and received the award at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City, where he met such twentieth-century-music luminaries as William Schumann and Leopold Stokowski. He apprenticed as a choral conductor under his father, Dr. Alfred Mann, which gave him the chance to meet more legendary figures of classical music, including Randall Thompson, Leonard Bernstein, Boris Goldovsky, Robert Shaw, and George Crumb. His musical compositions were performed throughout the U. S. and his musical score for Aeschylus Prometheus Bound (written at age thirteen) was performed as part of a theatrical production of the play at the stone amphitheater in Epidaurus, Greece the very one, in fact, where the play was originally premiered a few thousand years earlier.
(That was a good day.)
At age seventeen, he and a few friends started their own high school in New Jersey (called Changes, Inc. you can read about it here and here). Alternative though they were, his school successfully placed its students in such universities as Harvard and Yale. After graduating, he joined the school s faculty. In the years since he has taught children in affluent Boston suburbs, Indiana farms, and the poorest neighborhoods on the outskirts of Philadelphia.
John never planned to go into business; it just seemed to keep working out that way. He has founded one school, one food distribution business, one graphic design business, and two publishing companies.
John s diverse career has made him a thought leader in several different industries. In 1986 he founded and wrote for Solstice, a journal on health, nutrition, and environmental issues. His series on the climate crisis, Whither the Trees? (yes, he was writing about this back in the eighties), was selected for national reprint in 1989 in Utne Reader for a readership of over one hundred thousand. In 1992 John helped write and produce the underground bestseller The Greatest Networker in the World, by John Milton Fogg, which became the defining book in its industry. During the 1990s, John built a multimillion-dollar sales/distribution organization of over a hundred thousand people. He was cofounder and senior editor of the legendary Upline journal and editor in chief of Networking Times.
As a public speaker he has addressed audiences of thousands.
John is an award-winning author whose writings have earned the Axiom Business Book Award (Gold Medal, for The Go-Giver), the Nautilus Award (for A Deadly Misunderstanding), and Taiwan s Golden Book Award for Innovation (for You Call the Shots). The Go-Giver was also honored with the Living Now Book Awards Evergreen Medal in 2017 for its contributions to positive global change, and cited on Inc. s Most Motivational Books Ever Written and HubSpot s 20 Most Highly Rated Sales Books of All Time ; The Go-Giver Leader was listed on Entrepreneur magazine s 10 Books Every Leader Should Read and Forbes magazine s 8 Books Every Young Leaders Should Read. His 2012 Take the Lead (with Betsy Myers) was named Best Leadership Book of 2011 by Tom Peters and the Washington Post. His first novel, Steel Fear (2021, with former Navy SEAL Brandon Webb), was hailed by Lee Child as an instant classic, maybe an instant legend and nominated for a Barry Award. Jeffery Deaver called the sequel, Cold Fear (2022), one of the best crime novels of the year. You can read his thoughts on entering the world of crime fiction here.
His books are published in 38 languages and have sold more than 3 million copies. John coauthored the international bestselling classic The Go-Giver (with Bob Burg), the New York Times bestsellers The Latte Factor (with David Bach), The Red Circle (with Brandon Webb), and Flash Foresight (with Daniel Burrus), and The Answer (ghost-written for John Assaraf and Murray Smith) and the national bestsellers The Slight Edge (with Jeff Olson), Among Heroes (with Brandon Webb), Out of