‘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…
‘ 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…
‘The TL;DR, the too-long-didn’t-read of the whole thing, is that everybody’s skimming. So we need to write in a way that makes it easy for skimmers if we want to achieve our goals as writers.’ Todd Rogers has been using behavioural science for good for many years, from strengthening democracy…
‘The majority of people think their life would be better if they were more creative, but they don’t know how.’ There are lots of books on creativity out there, but surprisingly few at its intersection with everyday business, what Sue Unerman and Kathryn Jacob call ‘pragmatic creativity’. So they developed…
‘The problem that you have here, it’s not a writing problem. It’s a thinking problem.’ When Adrian Hornsby faced the challenge of how to convey complex business information in a way that resonated with readers, he drew on his background in writing fiction for theatre to bring dense business concepts…
“Oh, this is why people write books. This is actually quite addictive, this feeling that you’ve produced something and it is having an impact.” Katie Lewis and Matthew Stafford are the co-founders of 9others, a unique community that brings together founders and entrepreneurs to find answers to the questions that…
“When we’re talking about Do Deal, we’re really talking about the verb of how you deal with people… as an ongoing kind of living thing.” Richard Hoare didn’t set out to become an expert on negotiation. In fact his first attempt at negotiation, when he was offered a poorly paid…
‘Work fits into this bigger thing that we call life. And if you are more joyful in work, that will spill over and you will be more joyful in life.’ You may not have used the terms ‘WorkJoy’ and ‘WorkGloom’ before, but I bet you immediately know what they mean,…
“People don’t just pick up a book once, read it, put it down, and then that’s the end of their relationship with that idea…. we can move in a person’s life in multiple ways.” Sarah Stein Lubrano describes The School of Life as ‘a modern press’: books are vitally important,…
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