Ginny Carter, experienced ghostwriter and award-winning author in her own right, discovered when judging the self-help category for the Business Book Awards that authors were consistently making the same mistakes. The answer was obvious: write a great self-help book explaining how to write a great self-help book! In this super-practical…
‘We need, at the moment, mavericks. We need people of independent thought, courageous, wanting to do things differently, but we need to do that in service of others.’ Mavericks write their own rules. Modern mavericks write their own rules of success. Ed Haddon, author of The Modern Maverick, helps people…
‘We are designed for acute episodes of stress, but what we’re not designed for is chronic episodes of stress. That’s stress after stress after stress, and that’s what most people are living with, day in day out.’ Looking back, Sarah Sparks can see that her body was trying to tell…
“How do I discover my change making contribution, and how do I do that in a way so that I don’t fry myself in the process?” The balance between stepping up to make an impact in the world and stepping back where necessary to protect our own wellbeing and energy…
They told Christian Busch that it would be ‘academic suicide’ to do his PhD on the science of luck. But it turns out that luck isn’t a random force at all: the results may be unpredictable, but the process of becoming luckier is a simple matter of creating more connections…
It’s one of the great paradoxes of business books that they’re written by experts, but the process of writing them is itself what builds expertise. In this Best Bits episode nine recent guests reflect on how writing their book changed them – often in unexpected ways. Judy Piatkus on the…
‘I think we’re going to have another watershed moment… there’s going to be business pre-pandemic and business post-pandemic. And I wonder how many business books are going to feel out of date.’ As a woman founder in publishing, Judy Piatkus is one of my heroes. Working from home long before…
‘The reason why I was able to write it in 12 weeks is that I mapped out my entire book, sticky note by sticky note… And then I was relentless. I just went one word per sticky note and built the whole thing.’ For someone who comes alive on the…
Just occasionally, you have a conversation that rocks you to your core. One of those conversations that shows you how little you really know of life, how blind you are to your own privilege, and how feeble your excuses are. This is one of those conversations. Chris Wilson was facing…
In this very personal episode I talk about what I’ve learned about fear when it comes to writing a book (or indeed, pretty much anything that matters).
