Best Books 2016

Book of the Year 2016

The Best Books 2016 What are the Best Books 2016? I love learning. And, I love to learn by reading books. Each year I aim to read 50 books – that’s one book each week. And, I’m pleased to say this year I made it! Through Book Rapper, I am known for my book nerd […]

Andrew Melville – The Weave

Andrew Melville is an Auckland based communications expert. He is a master storyteller and facilitator who has worked as a journalist, radio broadcaster, University lecturer and community leader. His life’s work has been all about bringing people together through clear communication, stories and working with the specific and unique aspects of culture. Andrew Melville Podcast […]

My New Old Book

Previously, I wrote about how I’d been taking a shortcut in getting my blog posts out to meet my personal quota of one a day. And, that I’d been writing about things that weren’t forwarding my purpose of writing books to secure speaking engagements talking about the near future now. My New Book Project Today, […]

Leaders in Your Field

Isaac Newton - leaders in your field

Who are the Leaders in Your Field? Sir Isaac Newton once said: If I have seen further it is by standing on ye shoulders of giants. (Although this appears to come from Bernard of Chartres) And, in his recent blog post, Seth Godin updates this quote by saying: If you don’t know who the must-reads […]

Reading Books

Reading Books - My Passion!

Seth Godin If you follow my blog you probably know that I follow Seth Godin’s blog. And we’ve talked about Seth here, here and here. Plus we ran a 14 part marketing trends series based on his book Meatball Sundae here, here and here. Reading Books Stats Overnight Seth’s latest blog post was about telling […]

How to Write Bad Books

Bad Books

I read a lot of books. And, I share a lot of the better ones here through book reviews and the really good ones over at Book Rapper. I generally don’t share with you the ones that I consider to be ‘bad’ books. I thought it was time to share some of the things that […]

Design a Great Book Cover in Two Steps

Cover by Peter Mendelsund

I’ve recently published my fifth book: What The #$%?! Is Going On? Naturally, I had to design a book cover. That’s the image on the top of this blog post. Unfortunately, a week after publishing this book I discovered a great book at the local library on… yep, you guessed it, How to Design Book […]

Turn Your Blog Posts into Books – Podcast

Reading Books - My Passion!

Recently I clocked up the magnificent milestone of having published 650 blog posts. And, this started me thinking about how I could re-purpose and re-use this content in new ways. The obvious question for me was how to turn these blog posts into books. Our Topic This is episode #48 of the Ideas Architect podcast. […]

Five Books To Learn From

Five Books

Given, I’m known as the Book Rapper it’s probably not a surprise that I love to read books. And, lately, I’ve been devouring them as if they’re going out of supply. I’m sure that’s not happen, in fact, there is very strong evidence that suggests the opposite is happening. The flood of books is growing […]

Remote: Office Not Required – Book Review

Remote the Book

Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson, Remote, Vermillion, London, 2013. Previously we reviewed their earlier book Rework. This one is equally brilliant, easy to read and super useful. It’s an Important Trend For the past 500 years workers have been employed and paid based on showing up at the workplace and doing their work. It […]