William Buist
Building Better Business
Make the change you need today…
Working with business owners seeking the courage
and confidence to build a better business
Better Before Bigger, Rethinking Business Success by Nick Cramp is a book designed for the owners and leaders of what Nick described as “adolescent” businesses.
It is in these businesses that Nick can make the biggest difference. If you run a business there will have been a time when it felt as though it was growing up, you were having to converse with older, more established businesses but without any of the experience, they had.
The Goal is a different style of business book, it is written as a story. A story of a man called Alex Rogo and his challenges in an engineering factory.
The Advice Trap is a book about giving (less) advice, in which the irony of writing a book that offers lots of advice about giving less is not lost on its author – Michael Bungay Stanier.
Simon Hazeldine’s book Neuro-Sell is a guide to many aspects of how your customers and prospects are both thinking and feeling during the sales process.
This is a book for anyone thinking about, or in the midst of, building a business, a business team or working with others.
The Right to Write by Julia Cameron has been a fascinating read for me. In fact, it’s far more than a read, because each chapter of the book concludes with a writing exercise.
Communicating simple messages in a clear and concise way on a small piece of card MacLeod learned about his own creativity and ability to draw, he discovered an ability to communicate a simple idea and his pictures became his trademark.
How to Make the World Add Up starts by telling us about how to lie with statistics. He describes how numbers can confuse and work against us.
Rework is a different sort of book. It takes the challenges of running a business and breaks them down into bite-sized chunks.
Typically, it’s on the first Thursday of each month that we discuss the book we read in the previous month. These discussions are online and available to all Bookclub members. Even if you haven’t read the book members are welcome to listen to the discussion and learn what other readers took away from the book.
During each month there will be discussions about the featured book in our private facebook group, and other conversations between members.
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