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Hosted by Alison Jones · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 400 episodes
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Alison Jones, publisher and book coach, explores business books from both a writer's and a reader's perspective. Interviews with authors, publishers, business leaders, entrepreneurs, tech wizards, social media strategists, PR and marketing experts and others involved in helping businesses tell their story effectively.
Alison Jones hosts The Extraordinary Business Book Club, a business show with 400 episodes published.
'Books are made by humans, for humans, in conversation with other humans, and they are still the best vehicle we have for sustained thought.' It's episode 500 of The Extraordinary Business Book Club. I KNOW!!! To mark th
'The publishing of the book actually is not the finish line, it's the start line.' Chris Ducker is a serial entrepreneur, three-times bestselling author, keynote speaker and founder of Youpreneur, where he helps entrepre
'Confidence can fuel good performance, doubt can sap performance.' Julie Smith's first book, Coach Yourself Confident , focused on the individual experience of confidence: closing the gap between how capable we are and h
'We worked really hard to create "me too" moments rather than "so what" moments.' Will It Make The Boat Go Faster? is a phrase that has entered the business lexicon, not just as a book title and the name of a company but
'The art of building your own status with your audience is to convey to as many people as you can, as often as you can, hey, I really care about people. And I'm also really capable.' Status is a funny thing. We want it,
'Today is day one of whatever streak you choose to commit to.' Something a little bit different this week, as I celebrate an unusual milestone: eight years of running every single day. But this isn't really about running
'The more successful an organization is, the more valuable it is as a target. So the more golden the goose, the more the temptation to butcher it. We actually create the conditions for our own failure by blindly pursuing
'Really paying attention to nature seems to shift something more fundamental... writing can begin to feel a little less effortful and a little more joyful.' You might think that being in nature and writing business books
'Unlike the washing up, which I'm perfectly happy to delegate to a machine... I don't WANT to delegate my writing, because that's how I think.' Technology is great at making life easier. But sometimes, easy isn't what we
' Being creative means having a deep knowledge about anything that you do, because this helps you then to connect those things into new things.' Innovation. You can't sit through a corporate meeting without hearing the w
'...The very human tendency to focus on the thing that we think is the problem but isn't actually the thing that needs our attention.' In writing, as in life and work, we often focus on the question that looks obvious: H
'Readers don't finish books that make them feel impressed by someone with a lot of experience or success. They finish books that make them feel capable.' Does the book still have a place in next-generation corporate lear
'If there's one thing that this podcast has reinforced for me over the last 10 years, it is that books and the people who write them matter.' It's almost a decade to the day since I first pressed 'record' and launched th
'Inclusion is what you do and diversity is what you get.' Paolo Gaudiano's expertise ranges from rocket science through computational neuroscience to the really tough work: diversity, equity and inclusion in organization
'If you're into it, read into it.' Fresh (sic) from the London Book Fair, this week's episode brings together perspectives from across the industry on the National Year of Reading campaign. Does reading even still matter
'If you love somebody, set them free,' advised Sting back in 1985. Little did he know he was setting out a core principle of leadership for the 21st century. It's the big idea behind award-winning author Helen Beedham's
'We don't understand much about hope, and yet people are crying out for it from leaders.' If you ever hear someone dismissively say 'hope is not a strategy', be sure to introduce them to Ian Pettigrew, author of Hope is
'O nce you know that you can't do it all, it becomes a little bit easier.' Why do so many of us feel like we're drowning in endless demands and to-do lists, at work and at home? Why, when we have so many smart productivi
'The crux of our whole business is just really finding talented people to help others do what they can't do themselves as well.' Kevin Anderson never planned to become CEO of one of the biggest editorial agencies in the
"Love feedback, hate feedback, feel sort of somewhere in the middle, it still creates this sense of anxiety for everyone around." Organizational psychologist Becky Westwood is an expert in social anxiety at work. And tha
Eric Ries
creator of the Lean Startup method, founder of the Long-Term Stock Exchange, author of Incorruptible · Long-Term Stock Exchange
1 appearance on this show
Paolo Gaudiano
adjunct professor · NYU’s Stern School of Business
1 appearance on this show
John Amaechi
Leadership Transformation Expert · APS Intelligence LTD
1 appearance on this show
Dominic Colenso
communication expert, keynote speaker, bestselling author
1 appearance on this show
Sarah Robb
mindset coach and grief advocate
1 appearance on this show
Eleanor Tweddell
coach and change consultant · Another Door
1 appearance on this show
Alice Driscoll
co-author of Smart Conflict: How to Have Hard Conversations at Work · The Power House
1 appearance on this show
Dr Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
professor of business psychology at UCL and Columbia, chief innovation officer of ManpowerGroup, and author of books including ‘The Talent Delusion’ and ‘Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Be...’ · Harvard’s Entrepreneurial Finance Lab
2 appearances on this show
Maria Franzoni
Speakers' Advocate & Coach, Author of 'The Bookability Formula' · Speakers' Advocate & Coach
1 appearance on this show
Kerry Tottingham
Co-founder of A Beautiful Thing · A Brilliant Thing CIC
1 appearance on this show
Charlotte Otter
executive coach and author of We Need New Leaders · SAP
1 appearance on this show
Todd Sattersten
Expert Publisher
1 appearance on this show
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The Extraordinary Business Book Club is hosted by Alison Jones. The show is categorised under business (arts) and has published 400 episodes.
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