I’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 readingExactly 100 days ago I wrote a blog. I had no intention of doing anything crazy with it, but by the end, I found I’d committed myself to blogging every day, with no end date. Not only that, but I’d somehow committed to running at least a mile every day too. (It’s all Seth Godin’s […]
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?
Continue readingToday I started putting together the Extraordinary Business Book Club ‘Best Bits’ episode (Episode 40, which will go live on 19 December). Every 10 episodes, I take the opportunity to look back over the previous 9 and showcase the bits that I love best. (And those that others request too – it’s always lovely when […]
Continue readingWell, that was a long-held ambition realized: I just interviewed Guy Kawasaki for The Extraordinary Business Book Club. (I still can’t believe I get to talk to some of the people who’ve most influenced my entrepreneurial career and who’ve been such a powerful force in shaping my ideas over the last few years – I […]
Continue readingToday’s guest lecturer on the editorial module of the MA in Publishing at Brookes University was Simon Winder, pubishing director at Penguin Press. He has a massive amount of book industry experience from both the publishing and the writing side (his books include Germania and my personal favourite, The Man Who Saved Britain, a cultural history of James […]
Continue readingI received a very lovely and unexpected email today from David Taylor, author of The Naked Leader series, Visiting Professor of Leadership at Warwick and Ulster Business Schools, and one of the top business thinkers in the world. I interviewed him recently for The Extraordinary Business Book Club (the episode, which is a belter, by the […]
Continue readingAlthough The Extraordinary Business Book Club is mostly about the business of business books – writing them, publishing them, putting them to work in the business – one of the most enjoyable side benefits is that with such a wide range of authors, we get to cover an incredibly wide range of topics along the […]
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