In a world where so many opt to lean back – to disengage, scroll the feed, consume and comment rather than create, plug into the playlist rather than connect, here’s a rousing call to lean in to the work that matters. As a colleague, a leader, a writer and a…
‘You need a higher level of challenge and truth telling if you have set the bar high for yourself and your organization.’ Liam Black has become known as the ‘gloves-off mentor’ for his no-nonsense, straight-talking way of supporting social entrepreneurs and purpose-driven leaders. When the work you do matters so…
‘We’ve all been missing a trick, because sport has been showing us day in, day out, not just how to improve, perform and achieve, but how to do so on a sustained basis, in a way that ensures that we can consistently deliver results when it matters.’ Catherine Baker qualified…
The Independent Publishers’ Guild annual Spring Conference is one of the highlights of the year for the book industry. I seized the opportunity to speak to six movers and shakers in the world of books to put to them the questions that you’d have asked if you’d only had the…
‘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,…
This is a podcast about business and business books. You might think this is unpromising territory for talk of love: but you’d be wrong. No hearts and flowers here, but real, thoughtful, passionate insights into what it means to be in relationship with those we work alongside, how we express…
‘Seeing somebody need you, seeing somebody in pain, is not necessarily traumatizing: not being able to help them is a moral injury that is traumatizing. So I also wanted to challenge ideas of what hurts.’ Most of us run away from disaster. Similarly, we try to avoid painful emotions. For…
‘We as individuals are systems ourselves, aren’t we?… And so when we diagram ourselves using a work model, we often see for the very first time how these elements interrelate.’ You may be familiar with the Business Model Canvas – but have you ever thought about using it for yourself,…
‘When I went into [writing a book], people were telling me, oh, it’s going to be so lonely. you’re going to lock yourself in a room… nothing could be further from the truth. This was the most collaborative process from day one.’ If you want to do work that matters,…
