This is a guest post by Julia Langkraehr. Julia is a pioneering entrepreneur who built three multi-million pound retail businesses in three European countries. Check out her website, Bold Clarity. Great by Choice, by Jim Collins and Morten Hansen, delivers a potent management message which really resonated with me. Most people know how successful Norwegian Roald
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This post was written by Editorial Assistant, Bethan James. How much free time would you say you have everyday? Probably not as much as you would like… However, in the UK, for example, a survey carried out by the Office for National Statistics found that the average person has about six hours of leisure time
This review of Create Special has been written by Bethan James, Editorial Assistant at My Business Bookclub. Create Special, Jim Duffy (Harriman House, 2017). Duffy is co-founder of Entrepreneurial Spark, a company that helps early-stage entrepreneurs. He has also been included in the Sunday Times Maserati 100. Speaking from his own personal experience of starting-up, as
Uwe Dreissigacker is a life-long tech entrepreneur, currently working on his seventh company, the online invoicing software InvoiceBerry. In this review, Uwe looks at a book that regularly gets mentioned by our readers as the most important business book they have read: Rework by Jason Fried and David Heinsemeier Hansson. Rework is a must-read book
Motivate Yourself, by Andro Donovan (Capstone, 2017) is like having a super smart friend who won’t let you get away with any excuses. In her book, Donovan has struck just the right balance between sparking deep personal reflection and giving you the tools to deal with what you find. The starting point for the book
Kirsty Dawe is co-founder and managing director of Really B2B, a marketing agency based in the UK. Kirsty was hard pressed to choose just one business book to review, but she has – and we are delighted to include her review of Hal Elrod’s The Miracle Morning. If you’ve heard lots about this book but
Charles Paumelle is a serial entrepreneur currently running the international operations of Microshare, a company specializing in data compliance and monetization of the Internet of Things. Here, Charles shares his insights into The Upstarts by Brad Stone (Transworld Digital, 2017). I loved this book. Everyone talks about Uber and Airbnb as the poster children of
Ross Drakes is the Creative Director and Founder of Nicework a strategic branding company. He lives and works in Johannesburg South Africa where he is the incoming president of Entrepreneurs’ Organization South Africa and the host of CreativeMornings.com. The world of entrepreneurship has many currencies my favourite is business book recommendations. We can spend hours at events frantically
Born into the Oxford-based bookselling dynasty, you could say that literature runs in the veins of Philip Blackwell. Having worked in the family business as well as other leading book publishers, Philip is like a go-to manual when it comes to what’s hot in the book world. With a wealth of experience stemming from his