Episode 503 - What book awards do to and for authors
'You can be both disappointed for yourself and delighted for other people at the same time.' Book awards are great for visibility and credib...
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The Extraordinary Business Book Club
Alison Jones, publisher and book coach, explores business books from both a writer's and a reader's perspective. Interviews with authors, publishers, business leaders, entrepreneurs, tech wi...
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Episode 502 - Beyond Belief with Nir Eyal
'I don't write what I know, I write what I want to know.' You know Nir Eyal. He's an authority on behaviour change and human potential, a re...
Episode 501 - Effective with Melissa Swift
'It's just this kind of ordinary zone of getting done the things you need to get done and making sure your work has the impact it's supposed...
Episode 500 - The quincentenary episode
'Books are made by humans, for humans, in conversation with other humans, and they are still the best vehicle we have for sustained thought....
Episode 499 - Personal branding with Chris Ducker
'The publishing of the book actually is not the finish line, it's the start line.' Chris Ducker is a serial entrepreneur, three-times bestse...
Episode 498 - Contagious Confidence with Julie Smith
'Confidence can fuel good performance, doubt can sap performance.' Julie Smith's first book, Coach Yourself Confident , focused on the indiv...
Episode 497 - Going faster still with Ben Hunt-Davis & Harriet Beveridge
'We worked really hard to create "me too" moments rather than "so what" moments.' Will It Make The Boat Go Faster? is a phrase that has ente...
Episode 496 - Likeable Badass with Alison Fragale
'The art of building your own status with your audience is to convey to as many people as you can, as often as you can, hey, I really care a...
Episode 495 - The streak effect
'Today is day one of whatever streak you choose to commit to.' Something a little bit different this week, as I celebrate an unusual milesto...
Episode 494 - Incorruptible with Eric Ries
'The more successful an organization is, the more valuable it is as a target. So the more golden the goose, the more the temptation to butch...
Episode 493 - The natural advantage
'Really paying attention to nature seems to shift something more fundamental... writing can begin to feel a little less effortful and a litt...
Episode 492 - Writing is resistance
'Unlike the washing up, which I'm perfectly happy to delegate to a machine... I don't WANT to delegate my writing, because that's how I thin...
Episode 491 - Future-Fit Innovation with Barbara Salopek
' Being creative means having a deep knowledge about anything that you do, because this helps you then to connect those things into new thin...
Episode 490 - Asking the wrong questions
'...The very human tendency to focus on the thing that we think is the problem but isn't actually the thing that needs our attention.' In wr...
Episode 489 - Books and learning with Amy Cantin
'Readers don't finish books that make them feel impressed by someone with a lot of experience or success. They finish books that make them f...
Episode 488 - The 10th birthday podcast party
'If there's one thing that this podcast has reinforced for me over the last 10 years, it is that books and the people who write them matter....
Episode 487 - Measuring Inclusion with Paolo Gaudiano
'Inclusion is what you do and diversity is what you get.' Paolo Gaudiano's expertise ranges from rocket science through computational neuros...
Episode 486 - Going All In at the London Book Fair
'If you're into it, read into it.' Fresh (sic) from the London Book Fair, this week's episode brings together perspectives from across the i...
Episode 485 - People Glue with Helen Beedham
'If you love somebody, set them free,' advised Sting back in 1985. Little did he know he was setting out a core principle of leadership for...
Episode 484 - Hope is a Strategy with Ian Pettigrew
'We don't understand much about hope, and yet people are crying out for it from leaders.' If you ever hear someone dismissively say 'hope is...