Episode 381 – The Modern Maverick with Ed Haddon

Episode 381 - The Modern Maverick with Ed Haddon

‘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…

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Episode 380 – All about the Voice

Episode 380 - All about the Voice

In a sense writing a business book – any book, really – is quintessentially about finding and using your voice. You’re talking across time and space to a reader for a conversation that lasts for hours; admittedly a bit of a one-sided conversation, but it’s not possible to talk to…

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Episode 379 – Revolting Women with Lucy Ryan

Episode 379 - Revolting Women with Dr Lucy Ryan

When Lucy Ryan’s research revealed that midlife women were walking out of corporates in droves at the same age that the men around them were stepping into senior leadership positions, she knew it would make a great PhD topic. There was a massive data gap, and a clear benefit to…

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Episode 377 – The Writer’s Voice with Anne Janzer

Episode 377 - The Writer's Voice with Anne Janzer

“In everything we write, we choose a voice.” Poets and novelists talk a lot about their writing ‘voice’, but nonfiction writers, and especially business book writers, can write a full manuscript without giving it a thought. Which is a shame, because as Anne Janzer – copywriter, ghostwriter and business book…

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Episode 376 – Do Deal with Richard Hoare

Episode 376 - Do Deal with Richard Hoare

“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…

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Episode 375 – Semiotics & structure with Rachel Lawes

Episode 375 - Semiotics & structure with Rachel Lawes

‘I’m not going to live to be 10,000 years old, so I’d rather just write material that someone’s actually going to use. So top-down writing works for me because it’s a very economical way to write.” Dr Rachel Lawes is the world’s leading expert in semiotics and its application in…

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Episode 374 – Leader as Healer with Nicholas Janni

Episode 374 - Leader as Healer with Nicholas Janni

When your work is about experience – helping people access a different physical and emotional state so that they can reconnect with their embodied, instinctual wisdom – you can do it most effectively when you’re in the room together. How can you possibly translate that somatic, relational, experiential work into…

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Episode 373 – Rethinking creativity with Dennis Sherwood

Episode 373 - Rethinking creativity with Dennis Sherwood

“What’s important about creativity is not novelty, but difference. I want something different from what is happening now, and difference is much easier to discover because difference means different from now.” There’s a lot of mystique around creativity, but for practical people – people like scientists and engineers – being…

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