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The Extraordinary Business Book Club

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, soc... Read more

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Episode 190 - The Best Bits

Episode 190 - The Best Bits

Writing a business book is a delicate balancing act between being fully yourself and being fully in service of your read... Read more

4 Nov 2019

36mins

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Episode 178 - Believe Build Become with Debbie Wosskow and Anna Jones

Episode 178 - Believe Build Become with Debbie Wosskow and Anna Jones

'We wanted to create a monster global sisterhood of amazing women who have each other's backs.' Old Boys' Networks have ... Read more

12 Aug 2019

35mins

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Episode 198 - The Top Ten Reads of 2019

Episode 198 - The Top Ten Reads of 2019

I set myself a tough challenge for 2019: read 100 business books in the year. It was a close thing, but I hit my target ... Read more

30 Dec 2019

25mins

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Episode 211 - The Simplicity Principle with Julia Hobsbawm

Episode 211 - The Simplicity Principle with Julia Hobsbawm

'It was actually like falling in love, if I'm honest.' If you've fallen out of love with writing your book and even with... Read more

30 Mar 2020

50mins

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Episode 207 - Treating your writing like a business

Episode 207 - Treating your writing like a business

The dictionary defines ‘business’ as ‘work relating to the production, buying, and selling of goods or services.’ So if ... Read more

2 Mar 2020

18mins

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Episode 194 - Starting Up with Richard Hall and Rachel Bell

Episode 194 - Starting Up with Richard Hall and Rachel Bell

There's never been a more entrepreneurial age. The barriers to entry for setting up a business have crumbled over the la... Read more

2 Dec 2019

38mins

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Episode 206 - Crazy ideas with Celia Gaze

Episode 206 - Crazy ideas with Celia Gaze

When she decided to quit a good job in the NHS to develop a run-down farm, people thought Celia Gaze was crazy. When bus... Read more

24 Feb 2020

32mins

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Episode 176 - Future Fit with Andrea Clarke

Episode 176 - Future Fit with Andrea Clarke

'The discovery process is everything. It's the whole project.' Andrea Clarke describes the three months she spent writin... Read more

29 Jul 2019

33mins

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Episode 186 - Talking Business Books with Andrew Hill

Episode 186 - Talking Business Books with Andrew Hill

'It sometimes feels like I get to see every business book published.' As managing editor and business book reviewer for ... Read more

7 Oct 2019

40mins

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Episode 187 - 10 top tips for reading business books

Episode 187 - 10 top tips for reading business books

At the start of 2019 I set myself the ambitious target of reading 100 business books in the year. Now we are 78% of the ... Read more

14 Oct 2019

23mins

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Episode 199 - New Year Special: Goal Setting

Episode 199 - New Year Special: Goal Setting

No matter how many you've seen, there's still something a bit special about a new year: however 2019 panned out for you,... Read more

6 Jan 2020

19mins

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Episode 185 - Fear, Money, Purpose with Nancy Youssef

Episode 185 - Fear, Money, Purpose with Nancy Youssef

'But that's really vulnerable. I don't really want people to read that.' 'Well, that's your story. And if you really wan... Read more

30 Sep 2019

29mins

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Episode 191 - Your Business, Your Book with Ginny Carter

Episode 191 - Your Business, Your Book with Ginny Carter

When you write business books for a living, writing your own brings an unexpected problem: 'Sometimes I thought it was q... Read more

11 Nov 2019

31mins

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Episode 184 - True Profit Business with Karen Skidmore

Episode 184 - True Profit Business with Karen Skidmore

 'We build the road and the road builds us.' Sometimes, writing a business book can be a profound experience of self-dis... Read more

23 Sep 2019

36mins

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Episode 179 - Creative Thinking with Chris Griffiths

Episode 179 - Creative Thinking with Chris Griffiths

'Today, if you always do what you've always done, even if you do it faster, you're going to get left way behind... it's ... Read more

19 Aug 2019

40mins

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Episode 212 - The Monday Revolution with David Mansfield

Episode 212 - The Monday Revolution with David Mansfield

David Mansfield has a library of business books at home. Many of them are very good, many include great concepts and str... Read more

6 Apr 2020

38mins

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Episode 204 - The One About Fear

Episode 204 - The One About Fear

Writing a book, like doing pretty much anything that matters, involves a quantity of fear. Many people let it stop them,... Read more

10 Feb 2020

18mins

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Episode 192 - Why are we Yelling? with Buster Benson

Episode 192 - Why are we Yelling? with Buster Benson

"Half of the reason I decided to do this book was to learn... what does it take to write a book? Not only the process th... Read more

18 Nov 2019

32mins

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Episode 200 - The Bicentenary Episode

Episode 200 - The Bicentenary Episode

Celebrate with me - The Extraordinary Business Book Club is 200 episodes young! So along with the Best Bits of the last ... Read more

13 Jan 2020

23mins

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Episode 202 - Unfair Advantages with Ash Ali and Hasan Kubba

Episode 202 - Unfair Advantages with Ash Ali and Hasan Kubba

'We followed the lean startup principles of creating a product... we actually did an MVP version of our book... we kept ... Read more

27 Jan 2020

34mins

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