‘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…
‘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 respected academic and the bestselling author of Hooked and Indistractable. His latest book is called Beyond Belief: The science-backed way to stop limiting…
‘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 to have.’ There’s a lot of talk about high performance in leadership literature. But perhaps a more realistic goal, and the one with…
‘Books are made by humans, for humans, in conversation with other humans, and they are still the best vehicle we have for sustained thought.’ It’s episode 500 of The Extraordinary Business Book Club. (I KNOW!!!) To mark the milestone, I handed the mic over to YOU, the listeners, to reflect…
‘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 feel capable.’ Does the book still have a place in next-generation corporate learning platforms? You bet. Amy Cantin of Skillsoft talks me through the evolution of…
‘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 industry on the National Year of Reading campaign. Does reading even still matter? [Spoiler alert: it matters more than ever!] And how can we – as an…
‘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 the 21st century. It’s the big idea behind award-winning author Helen Beedham’s second book People Glue: Hold on to your best people by setting…
“Love feedback, hate feedback, feel sort of somewhere in the middle, it still creates this sense of anxiety for everyone around.” Organizational psychologist Becky Westwood is an expert in social anxiety at work. And that gives her a unique persepctive on the situation guaranteed to created anxiety in ALL of…
When she started her first job reporting on farming, trying to work out how to move into interior design, Sally Percy had no idea she’d forge such an extraordinarily successful careeer as a business journalist and author. But the lessons she learned in her earliest days – how to write…
‘ We’ve invented a new genre, at least that’s very modestly what we would like to believe. We’re calling it Professional Advice Narrative Tales, and we’ll leave you to figure out that acronym.’ For the new generation entering the workplace, reading a traditional business book has all the appeal of a…
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