John is an award-winning author whose writings have earned the Nautilus Award, the Axiom Business Book Award (Gold Medal), and Taiwan’s Golden Book Award for Innovation. In addition to coauthoring with Bob Burg the international bestseller The Go-Giver, as well as Go-Givers Sell More and It’s Not About You, he is also the New York Times bestselling coauthor of Flash Foresight with Daniel Burrus, Take the Lead with Betsy Myers, Code to Joy with Dr. George Pratt, PhD, and Dr. Peter Lambrou, PhD, and The Secret Language of Money with David Krueger, MD. His writing credits in the past few years also include The Answer by John Assaraf and Murray Smith; The Vision Board Book by John Assaraf, Success for Teens with The Success Foundation, The Business of the 21st Century by Robert Kiyosaki, The Next Millionaires by Paul Zane Pilzer, and The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson. In 2007 he published The Zen of MLM, a collection of his writings from the past two decades.

John is also a concert cellist and prize-winning composer. At age thirteen, his musical score for Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound was performed at the amphitheater in Delphi, Greece (where the play was originally premiered); at fifteen he was recipient of the 1969 BMI Awards to Student Composers. At seventeen he cofounded a private high school in East Orange, New Jersey, called Changes, Inc. In 1986 John founded and wrote for Solstice, a journal on health and environmental issues; his series on the climate crisis was selected for reprint in Utne Reader. In 1992 John produced the underground bestseller The Greatest Networker in the World, by John Milton Fogg, which became the defining book in its industry and sold over two million copies in eight languages. During the 1990s, he built a multimillion-dollar sales organization of over 100,000 people. He was cofounder and senior editor of the Upline journal and editor in chief of Network Marketing Lifestyles and Networking Times.

He is married to Ana Gabriel Mann, and considers himself the luckiest mann in the world.

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