Today’s blog was a guest post over at Birds on the Blog, in which I explore how Amy Wilkinson interviewed 200 top entrepreneurs and through sophisticated analysis reduced their collective wisdom to six astonishingly simple principles. She sets out those key skills for business success in The Creator’s Code – a book so incredibly readable […]
Continue readingThere’s a trivial domestic job I’ve been meaning to do for literally months now. We have a fold-down bed that we don’t need any more, and I took pictures of it in March (MARCH!!) so I could put it on ebay. What I didn’t do, though, was take the measuremnets. And since March I’ve been […]
Continue readingToday’s blog is a guest post over at BookMachine, reflecting on the new attitude of many authors – they’re no longer waiting for permission from a pubilsher. ‘To be honest, there’s actually quite a few reasons why we wouldn’t have been good people to write the book. I don’t think we had necessarily the credibility […]
Continue readingDisclaimer: I AM A PUBLISHER NOT A LAWYER! If you have any concerns over your own or others’ use of copyright material, get qualified legal advice. But I have spent a long time dealing with copyright issues and authors’ nervousness about using other people’s material. One question that keeps coming up in my bootcamp and […]
Continue readingHeading home from the IPG Autumn Conference and buzzing with a heady combination of inspiration, new ideas, old friends and red wine. But I only have time for a short blog, so from the plethora of inspiration I’ll go with Nicholas Lovell‘s closing remark, that ‘Nobody knows anything.’ Lovell is the author of The Curve […]
Continue readingThis week’s episode of the Extraordinary Business Book Club podcast features Barbara Gray, who has self-published her book Ubernomics using the Reedsy platform. There’s lots of fascinating stuff in the interview about publishing options, economics, writing, blogging and more, but one exchange really stood out for me. Barbara has a ‘library’ area on her site, […]
Continue readingBooks have power. They show us new ways of thinking, new possibilities. I’m putting together a list of the books that have changed my world, have brought me this far in my life, and finding out from other visionary, successful people which books changed their worlds. What book was the book that changed YOUR world?
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