How to be Successful as an Expert in Business

How to be successful as an expert in business

To be successful as an expert in business requires applying three key business growth strategies. The Big Mistake Business Experts Make The mistake that a lot of experts make in business is that they focus on the wrong thing.  And this is not just a rookie mistake that beginners make. A lot of seasoned pros […]

Location Independent Lifestyle Design – 7 Principles for a Great Life

Location Independent Lifestyle Design

Location Independent Lifestyle Design – what are the seven most important things to consider? When we think of location independent living, we tend to think of all the good things of jetting around the world, sitting on a beach and having a great life. While that might be what we want to have happen, what […]

Alan Silcock – Five Gifts Flourishing

Alan Silcock - Five Gifts Flourishing

Geoff McDonald interviews author Alan Silcock about his new book, Five Gift Flourishing in episode 116 of the Ideas Architect podcast. Show Links Alan Silcock’s website – Following Forsyth Alan Silcock interviews Geoff McDonald about his next book, Deep Minimalism Download the Interview Recording Transcript of Interview with Alan Silcock Geoff McDonald  00:00 Hi, Alan, […]

Deep Minimalism with Geoff McDonald

Deep Minimalism

Deep Minimalism Deep Minimalism is the topic of Geoff McDonald’s next book. It’s what you get when you apply the principles of Minimalism to all (or at least, more) areas of your life. The first slice of this topic is shaping as a standalone book, Minimal Work. In this podcast episode (#115 of the Ideas […]

Heart Leadership with Ian Berry

Ian Berry - Heart Leadership book

Heart Leadership In his latest book, Heart Leadership, business mentor and leadership expert Ian Berry talks about the progress from the mind of leadership to leading with the heart. It’s an interesting update on leadership styles and more timely than ever given our experiences with the pandemic, lockdown and often, leading from afar with more […]

Best Business Books 2019

Best Business Books 2019 + Book of the Year 2019

Best Business Books 2019 My Best Business Books 2019… Each year I read a lot of books – in the range of 40-55 books. And given I’m always reading and always talking about the best business books, it makes sense that people ask me what I’m reading and what I’d recommend. To help with this […]

Hero’s Journey: Create your Brand and Marketing Message

Donald Miller - Building a Story Brand Book Cover

Hero’s Journey and What You Do The Hero’s Journey is a great tool to use when you’re asked the inevitable business question: What do you do? How do you usually answer that? Do you respond with a generic category? “I’m a… Business Coach, Accountant or Trainer.” Do you respond with your job title and business […]

Best Books 2017 for Business and Life

Book of the Year 2017

Best Books 2017 Best Books 2017? Over the past decade – since I started Book Rapper – I’ve often been asked by friends and colleagues to recommend my best books to read. During this time, I’ve read over 450 books fuelled by an annual goal to read 50 books. This year (2017) I made it […]

Top 10 Business Books for 2018

Top Ten Business Books of the Year What are the top 10 business books for 2018? And what is your book of the year? Each year, I aim to read 50 books. In 2018, I fell a few short and read 40 books. Still a good result. From this list of books I’ve selected my […]

Leadership Development: Best Business Books to Read

Best business books for leadership development

Leadership Development What are the best business books to read for leadership development? For a long while I had dismissed leadership development as a topic overblown by it’s own self-importance. For me, so many of the best business books that I had read (over 450 in the past decade) talked about leadership as if they […]