‘You can be both disappointed for yourself and delighted for other people at the same time.’ Book awards are great for visibility and credibility. But there’s another side to them too. Entering for an award means putting the product of months or years of private work into the public gaze…
‘Inclusion is what you do and diversity is what you get.’ Paolo Gaudiano’s expertise ranges from rocket science through computational neuroscience to the really tough work: diversity, equity and inclusion in organizations. It’s not got any easier over the last couple of years, but it’s not got any less important,…
‘ An author might be thinking, I can’t wait till the book is out on a bookshelf… I would suggest focus on the experience of the writing and the pleasure of actually writing the book and the satisfaction you’re going to get in doing that.’ David Sinkinson, SaaS entrepreneur, podcaster, and…
‘How do you make a strategy a story? The best leaders and the best communicators do that. They turn something that’s functional and rational into something that’s a story.’ John Dore, head of London Business School’s Senior Executive Program and founder of Wave Your Arms, wants you to reimagine your…
If you know anything at all about coaching, you know that it’s all about asking questions, right? Well, yes, and also: that’s not the full story. Claire Pedrick and Lucia Baldelli sat down together to write a book on how to move from ‘really good’ to ‘even better’ coach, but…
“I used to say, wouldn’t it be great if I could work like a normal person and do 40 hours a week? And the realization comes that you do have 40 hours, it’s just not in the same week.” Passive income—it’s the dream, right? Earning money while you sleep, basking…
‘The writing is joyful, more or less. It’s painful, but it’s also joyful. The marketing of it is much harder.’ Dr Lucy Ryan’s book Revolting Women touched a nerve worldwide: many women can relate all too well to the perfect storm of challenges facing midlife women at work, and everyone…
‘ I think about writing like that, you make your different-sized stones and bricks, and then you put them in the wall. And then slowly you start to mortar round them .
On 16 March 2018, the inaugural Business Book Awards ceremony took place in London. It was an extraordinary occasion, bringing together the top names in books and business in the UK and beyond, and with shortlists including books from the biggest traditional publishers to the smallest independent presses and even…
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