‘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…
‘Today is day one of whatever streak you choose to commit to.’ Something a little bit different this week, as I celebrate an unusual milestone: eight years of running every single day. But this isn’t really about running, it’s about streaking (no, not that kind of streaking, do grow up)…
‘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…
‘ Being creative means having a deep knowledge about anything that you do, because this helps you then to connect those things into new things.’ Innovation. You can’t sit through a corporate meeting without hearing the word. Everyone thinks they know what they mean by it, and most people are confident…
‘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,…
‘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…
‘We don’t understand much about hope, and yet people are crying out for it from leaders.’ If you ever hear someone dismissively say ‘hope is not a strategy’, be sure to introduce them to Ian Pettigrew, author of Hope is a Strategy. He will disabuse them of the idea that…
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