The Extraordinary Business Book Club

If you know anything at all about coaching, you know that it's all about asking questions, right? Well, yes, and also: that's not the full story. 

Claire Pedrick and Lucia Baldelli sat down together …

 'Writing isn't just about creating content; it's about creating ourselves.'

It's another Best Bits episode, and the theme that really stood out to me as I looked back over the last few episodes was …

 'That's my goal here is to hopefully provide an inspirational story that can be a catalyst for the reader to go out and do amazing things.'

Per Wimmer has spent his life soaring to new heights, meta…

"I used to say, wouldn't it be great if I could work like a normal person and do 40 hours a week? And the realization comes that you do have 40 hours, it's just not in the same week."

Passive income—…

'Don't let AI set your vision. But harness AI to help you execute your vision.'

For me, the start of a new year always brings a sense of potential. It's a chance to make changes. But I'm old enough t…

 'It's that place of, you know, because it's your business and your livelihood, having to say, "Come and buy my thing because I'm great. I'm great at it. Look at me, look at all these great things I …

'[And this is} the rationale and the motivation for the book. It's about, well, how do we spread this? How do we do some good with it? How do we improve the economy? How do we make businesses more ef…

'The writing is joyful, more or less. It's painful, but it's also joyful. The marketing of it is much harder.'

Dr Lucy Ryan's book Revolting Women touched a nerve worldwide: many women can relate all…

'The TLDR, the too-long-didn't-read of the whole thing, is that everybody's skimming. So we need to write in a way that makes it easy for skimmers if we want to achieve our goals as writers.'

Todd Ro…

'Ruthlessness exists on a continuum, caring exists on a continuum, and it's about being in the sweet spots of both of those, not overplaying either one, or underplaying either one.'

Amy Walters Cohen…

'Mom, why don't you just write it like you talk to me?'

When Laura Hamill set out to write a book about the subject she knew best - the subject she'd spent years researching in theory and practice - …

'As we lean into artificial intelligence across every sector of business and life, how do we ensure that we're delegating the right things and keeping responsibility for the right things? And specifi…

'They think the goal is to have the book, but no, the goal is to become the person it takes to write your book.'

Dan Kieran is a publishing legend: as a co-founder of Unbound he revolutionizing the i…

'I think we are living in a renaissance of the book... AI is changing how we are looking at trusted knowledge.'

getAbstract is one of the leading corporate learning platforms, and it's based on books…

"As she was coached during a 15-minutes conversation, she put down each of those worries and at the end of it she was standing there in her full potential and I was like, wow, that's amazing. I want …

'Nice is about telling people what they want to hear. Kind is about telling people what they need to hear.'

Graham Allcott's back on the podcast and all is well with the world once again. This time h…

'The majority of people think their life would be better if they were more creative, but they don't know how.'

There are lots of books on creativity out there, but surprisingly few at its intersectio…

'We're on the edge of really very exciting things, but also tremendous risks at the same time.'

Whether you're an AI enthusiast or it fills you with existential terror, this conversation will challen…

'We have this image of a reader being someone who's giving time and attention to our words... but online that doesn't happen.'

Anna Faherty found out the hard way that there were no books to help her…

'I'm going to tell you how you should be doing it, but it's up to you to do it. But I'm going to dress it up in a way where the message might land 15 minutes later when you're on the bus going to tow…