HeyJaredThe Extraordinary Business Book Club
Alison Jones, publisher and book coach, explores business books from both a writer's and a reader's perspective.
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Episode 502 - Beyond Belief with Nir Eyal (opens the original)
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'I don't write what I know, I write what I want to know.' You know Nir Eyal. He's an authority on behaviour change and human potential, a respected academic and the bestselling author of Hooked and Indistractable . His latest book is called Beyond Belief: The science-backed way to stop limiting yourself and achieve breakthrough results . But did you know that he's not writing for you, dear reader - he's writing for himself, to satisfy his curiosity about a topic that's caught his attention? Or t
Episode 501 - Effective with Melissa Swift (opens the original)
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'It's just this kind of ordinary zone of getting done the things you need to get done and making sure your work has the impact it's supposed to have.' There's a lot of talk about high performance in leadership literature. But perhaps a more realistic goal, and the one with the potential to transform an organization root to branch, is effectiveness, argues Melissa Swift. Her new book Effective: How to do great work in a fast-changing world, explores what it really means to be effective at work -
Episode 500 - The quincentenary episode (opens the original)
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'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 the milestone, I handed the mic over to YOU, the listeners, to reflect on what the show has meant to you over the years. There are reflections on discovering what to read next, finding community among people with big ideas, and hearing authors speak honestly about the intractably h
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