One of the first books I read on my entrepreneurial journey was Oversubscribed by Daniel Priestly. I remember being slightly amused by the idea, even while taking in all the great advice. When you’re starting out, desperate for clients, and unknown by your target market (and THAT was a nasty shock: my huge network of […]
Continue readingToday’s post is over at Birds on the Blog – a fairy tale for entrepreneurs. Ole Kirk Christiansen had a remarkable blend of talent, integrity, resourcefulness, tenacity and vision. He took every boulder that fate threw at him and used it to build his life’s work. http://birdsontheblog.co.uk/four-disasters-and-a-crazy-risk/
Continue readingToday’s blog is a guest post over at Birds on the Blog: http://birdsontheblog.co.uk/writing-book-first-build-platform/. ‘…a book is part of your bigger platform, not a standalone. To get readers, let alone publishers, interested in your book to the point where they’re willing to spend time and money on it, you have to secure their attention and trust. And […]
Continue readingIt’s not often that I am really, tragically bad at something these days. Sadly, that’s not because I’m universally gifted. It’s because I’ve organised my life so that I don’t have to do the things I know I’m really, tragically bad at. I outsource my bookkeeping, for instance, and I gave up on trying to […]
Continue readingAre you still waiting for the secret of success, productivity, happiness? A significant – and significantly profitable – section of the publishing industry is given over to books promising to make us better versions of ourselves. I’ve now interviewed several of the authors in The Extraordinary Business Book Club. And what’s astonished me is how […]
Continue readingThere’s a particularly extraordinary interview on this week’s Extraordinary Business Book Club, as you’d expect for the first week of a new year. David Taylor, The Naked Leader, is one of the world’s top leadership coaches and management thinkers. What’s extraordinary about that? Well, it’s just that he doesn’t act or write like a high-flying […]
Continue readingHappy 2017! Today’s blog is a guest post over at Birds on the Blog: http://birdsontheblog.co.uk/re-resolution/ This is for anyone who’s given up making New Year resolutions because they’re sick of breaking them… Think about it: where would you be now if you’d decided as a baby that because you’d fallen over the last 20 times […]
Continue readingOne of the first episodes of The Extraordinary Business Book Club podcast featured an interview with Michael E. Gerber talking about one of the most extraordinary business books of all time – The E-Myth Revisited. So it feels very appropriate that we end 2016 with Michael talking about his new book, Beyond the E-Myth: The Evolution of an Enterprise: From […]
Continue readingI’ve just finished one of the most moving interviews I’ve ever conducted on The Extraordinary Business Book Club. Last year I ran an online summit – World-Changing Writers – and one of the many stellar book folk I interviewed was Michael E. Gerber, author of The E-Myth series. (When I left coprporate life to set […]
Continue readingToday’s post is over at Birds on the Blog, looking back at a couple of recent podcast episodes and drawing out some lessons on attitude for entrepreneurs and writers. Are you a DD?
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