‘Reps can help you improve your ability to speak, and you can be the person creating those reps.’ If you’re seeking success as a speaker, what does that mean to you? Perfectly polished delivery? Big, flashy stages? Alex Merry sees his job as helping founders unlock the true potential of…
‘ You can continually be choosing optimistic behavior even when you’re not feeling optimistic.’ Michelle Gielan is a positive psychology researcher married to a happiness researcher – wouldn’t you love to be at that dinner table? In her latest book Resilient Optimism: The science of sustaining a positive mindset in tough…
‘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…
‘The publishing of the book actually is not the finish line, it’s the start line.’ Chris Ducker is a serial entrepreneur, three-times bestselling author, keynote speaker and founder of Youpreneur, where he helps entrepreneurs and industry leaders and experts launch and market their books and grow their authority and their…
‘Confidence can fuel good performance, doubt can sap performance.’ Julie Smith’s first book, Coach Yourself Confident, focused on the individual experience of confidence: closing the gap between how capable we are and how capable we believe ourselves to be. It won quite a few awards. Her new book, Contagious Confidence,…
‘We worked really hard to create “me too” moments rather than “so what” moments.’ Will It Make The Boat Go Faster? is a phrase that has entered the business lexicon, not just as a book title and the name of a company but as a leadership philosophy. Ben Hunt-Davis and…
‘The art of building your own status with your audience is to convey to as many people as you can, as often as you can, hey, I really care about people. And I’m also really capable.’ Status is a funny thing. We want it, but because it’s what other people…
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