‘ You can continually be choosing optimistic behavior even when you’re not feeling optimistic.’ Michelle Gielan is a positive psychology researcher married to a happiness researcher – wouldn’t you love to be at that dinner table? In her latest book Resilient Optimism: The science of sustaining a positive mindset in tough…
‘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 think.’ Technology is great at making life easier. But sometimes, easy isn’t what we really need. It’s hard to resist the siren call of AI as…
‘The crux of our whole business is just really finding talented people to help others do what they can’t do themselves as well.’ Kevin Anderson never planned to become CEO of one of the biggest editorial agencies in the world, but that’s where his knack for seeing opportunities in a…
‘You have a choice about how you put content out into the world in 2026, and that choice isn’t just a business choice, it’s about who you are and what’s important to you.’ It’s the time of year when we traditionally think about the changes we want to make in…
‘ This technology isn’t going to go away. We need to figure out what role it has.’ George Walkley is a legend in the publishing world. Over the last three decades, and particularly at Hachette, he has not only witnessed but helped shape the digital transformation of the industry, and these…
’That’s all we’ve got as well in this age of AI… we have to put heart and soul into what we create.’ When someone cheerfully tells you that when one door closes another door opens in the midst of the rawness of redundancy, you’d be forgiven for wanting to punch…
Fresh (if you can call it that) from the Frankfurter Buchmesse 2025, I’m here this week with a candid look at what we and other publishers were talking about over those three hectic days – global sales, routes to market, Amazon and its new algorithm, AI, digital library platforms, translation…
People who write business books – at least, business books worth reading – tend to think a little differently. This ‘Best Bits’ episode features a formidable line-up of disruptors, each of whom brings a very personal toolkit for unsettling the status quo, in work and in life. Challenging the system…
‘[Olympia’s] gorgeous vaulted glass roof feels kind of like a metaphor for the fair itself. Rooted in history, but always looking upwards and outwards.’ Something a bit different today: join me for a deep dive into a publisher’s experience of London Book Fair 2025. I have been to a LOT…
‘Nice is about telling people what they want to hear. Kind is about telling people what they need to hear.’ Graham Allcott’s back on the podcast and all is well with the world once again. This time he’s talking about the transformative power of kindness in the workplace. Many assume…
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