The Extraordinary Business Book Club

When you run a small business - especially a retail business - it can feel very much as if a tiger has not just come to tea, but moved in. It's always hungry, often unpredictable, and it makes you fe…

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…

'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, s…

'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 …

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 book…

'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 'Work…

"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 de…

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 …

'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 hu…

'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 …

'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 colla…

It's easy to get caught up in the fluff - in work and life. Whether it's focusing on the font family rather than the purpose behind the brand, the endless social media scroll rather than the deep thi…

'I'd done a lot of reps before I started writing the book, and that helped enormously.'

Ollie Henderson would like to talk to you about work-life balance. Specifically, he'd like you to understand th…

'How can you get to more people beyond coaching courses and beyond webinars? Well, you write a book.'

Bec Evans and Chris Smith met in a bookshop and have worked with books, writing and authors ever …

'Slow journalism for us was just a way of encapsulating that feeling that when you take your time, you can do something more quality.'

In a media landscape dominated by the white-hot, reactive world …

'If you give your brain a question, it can't help but go looking for answers. That's how we are designed. And when you know that, you suddenly think, well, all my job is, really, is to come up with t…

'Your story is about you, but it's not for you. Someone, somewhere woke up this morning needing to hear your story to not feel alone.'

For most of us, it's hard for us to see how our personal story f…

'We are designed for acute episodes of stress, but what we're not designed for is chronic episodes of stress. That's stress after stress after stress, and that's what most people are living with, day…

Ever wondered why people don't immediately shout 'Of course!' and shake you warmly by the hand when you share your new idea with them? It's because we find new ideas hard to take on board, especially…

'How do I .. move from being a curator to a creator? That was a big shift for me, and I think I got there in the end.'

People often talk about the value of the finished book - for the author and for …