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The Extraordinary Business Book Club Podcast
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Podcast and community of business book readers and writers 📚 ✍🏼 Hosted by Alison Jones (https://bsky.app/profile/alisonjones.com)
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How are other people doing the thing? 👀

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November 7, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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From the archive! 🗃
In episode 433 @alisonjones.com and Todd Rogers chatted all about how better communication can lead to a kinder, more efficient world. Whether it’s an email, a report, or a book 👇🏻
Episode 433 – Writing for Busy Readers with Todd Rogers
‘The TL;DR, the too-long-didn’t-read of the whole thing, is that everybody’s skimming. So we need to write in a way that makes it easy for skimmers if we want to achieve our goals…
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November 5, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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From the archive! 🗃
In episode 432 @alisonjones.com and Amy Walters Cohen chatted all about the challenges and rewards of translating research into a book 👇🏻
Episode 432 – Ruthlessly Caring with Amy Walters Cohen
‘Ruthlessness exists on a continuum, caring exists on a continuum, and it’s about being in the sweet spots of both of those, not overplaying either one, or underplaying either one.&#821…
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November 4, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Here’s a round-up of #hotnewbusinessbooks coming out in November 📚🔥

If you love reading about success stories and strategies to get ahead, you’ll love our selection of hot-off-the-press titles to add to your bookshelves this month.

November Hot New Business Reads 🔥📚
Checkout out this list on Bookshop
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November 1, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Do you have an anchor? ⚓️

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October 31, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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In ep 431 @alisonjones.com and Laura Hamill chatted all about how to sit with the discomfort of uncertainty and self-doubt and how to tell if real business culture is aligned with strategy👇🏻
Episode 431 – The Power of Culture with Laura Hamill
‘Mom, why don’t you just write it like you talk to me?’ When Laura Hamill set out to write a book about the subject she knew best – the subject she’d spent years resea…
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October 29, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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From the archive! 🗃
In episode 430 @alisonjones.com compiled the best bits from previous podcast episodes all about human and artificial intelligence in writing 👇🏻
Episode 430 – Human & artificial intelligence in writing
‘As we lean into artificial intelligence across every sector of business and life, how do we ensure that we’re delegating the right things and keeping responsibility for the right thing…
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October 28, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Want to hear more about what's behind these numbers? You're going to have to listen to this podcast episode for that! 📱🎧

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October 24, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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From the archive! 🗃
In episode 429 @alisonjones.com and Dan Kieran chatted all about how writing isn’t just about the final product; it’s the process, the way you articulate your journey, both professionally and personally 👇🏻
Episode 429 – Do Start with Dan Kieran
‘They think the goal is to have the book, but no, the goal is to become the person it takes to write your book.’ Dan Kieran is a publishing legend: as a co-founder of Unbound he revolut…
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October 22, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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In episode 428 @alisonjones.com chatted to getAbstract at the Frankfurt Book Fair all about how AI is changing how we look at trusted knowledge and the true power of books 👇🏻
Episode 428 – getAbstract at the Frankfurt Book Fair
‘I think we are living in a renaissance of the book… AI is changing how we are looking at trusted knowledge.’ getAbstract is one of the leading corporate learning platforms, and i…
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October 21, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Also, why you? Get brainstorming! 🤔💡

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October 17, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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In ep 427 @alisonjones.com and Tiffany Gaskell chatted all about the link between coaching and writing, and how coaching principles can help you reach your full potential as a writer👇🏻
Episode 427 – Coaching for Performance with Tiffany Gaskell
“As she was coached during a 15-minutes conversation, she put down each of those worries and at the end of it she was standing there in her full potential and I was like, wow, that’s am…
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October 15, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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In episode 426 @alisonjones.com and Graham Allcott chatted all about what writing does for us – we write what we need to read – and why delegating it to AI is a poor strategy 👇🏻
Episode 426 – Kind with Graham Allcott
‘Nice is about telling people what they want to hear. Kind is about telling people what they need to hear.’ Graham Allcott’s back on the podcast and all is well with the world onc…
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October 14, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Writing is only the first step in your journey as an author 🏔️🏃🏼‍♀️

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October 10, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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From the archive! 🗃
In episode 425 @alisonjones.com, Sue Unerman and Kathryn Jacob chatted all about the role of collaboration in creativity and the interplay between structure and adaptability 👇🏻
Episode 425 – A Year of Creativity with Sue Unerman & Kathryn Jacob
‘The majority of people think their life would be better if they were more creative, but they don’t know how.’ There are lots of books on creativity out there, but surprisingly fe…
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October 8, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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In episode 424 @alisonjones.com and Patrick Dixon chatted all about the importance of authenticity in writing and the irreplaceable human connection that readers seek 👇🏻
Episode 424 – How AI will change your life with Patrick Dixon
‘We’re on the edge of really very exciting things, but also tremendous risks at the same time.’ Whether you’re an AI enthusiast or it fills you with existential terror, this…
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October 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Who are you writing for? 👤✍🏻

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October 3, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Here’s a round-up of #hotnewbusinessbooks coming out in October 📚🔥

If you love reading about success stories and strategies to get ahead, you’ll love our selection of hot-off-the-press titles to add to your bookshelves this month.

https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/october-hot-new-business-reads
October 2, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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From the archive! 🗃
In episode 423 @alisonjones.com and Anna Faherty chatted all about capturing attention online, and why AI stories are not the way forward for anyone who cares about social justice 👇🏻
Episode 423 – Nonfiction stories with Anna Faherty
‘We have this image of a reader being someone who’s giving time and attention to our words… but online that doesn’t happen.’ Anna Faherty found out the hard way that t…
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October 1, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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From the archive! 🗃
In episode 422 @alisonjones.com and Colin D. Ellis chatted all about crediting as you write, the joy of the Venn diagram, and why being Liverpudlian is a superpower 👇🏻
Episode 422 – Detox Your Culture with Colin D. Ellis
‘I’m going to tell you how you should be doing it, but it’s up to you to do it. But I’m going to dress it up in a way where the message might land 15 minutes later when you&…
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September 30, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Transform writing from a solitary sport into team effort 📙🫱🏼‍🫲🏽

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September 26, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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From the archive! 🗃
In episode 421 @alisonjones.com and Alina Addison chatted all about interviewing personal story with professional expertise and how to develop a style of writing based on talking 👇🏻
Episode 421 – The Audacity Spectrum with Alina Addison
“It’s that little extra something that makes the ordinary into extraordinary and the impossible into the ‘why not’?” When her son was diagnosed with autism at the age …
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September 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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From the archive! 🗃
In episode 420 @alisonjones.com compiled all the best bits from previous podcast episodes all about being ready to take the less-traveled path to create real value in business and in writing 👇🏻
Episode 420 – The Road Less Traveled
In a world that celebrates speed and working smart, adopting AI solutions and smashing simple success metrics, it can feel not just challenging but unhelpful to diverge from received wisdom.  But i…
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September 23, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Two brains are always better than one 🧠 x 2️⃣

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September 19, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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In episode 419 @alisonjones.com and David B. Horne chatted all about how books serve as a permanent record of knowledge, helping businesses learn, grow, and establish credibility 👇🏻
Episode 419 – Add Then Multiply with David B. Horne
David B. Horne, creative accountant and author of the award-winning Add Then Multiply: How small businesses can think like big businesses and achieve exponential growth, has a multidimensional pers…
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September 17, 2025 at 11:02 AM