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Want more brilliant minds in your company? Every week we pick a new non-fiction book and share Original, Memorable, Insights - OMI - with the author. From the history of humankind to the future of tech, to behavioural science, digital business, entertainment and global trends in health and economics, Bookomi is for people who are always learning. Informed by Bookomi's monthly Most Wanted list of non-fiction titles and a decade of hosting talks in private clubs and companies, Bookomi provides independent author intelligence to event producers looking for contributors. Discover books worth talking about with our free Most Wanted email, sign up here - http://bit.ly/MOSTWANTEDsignup
Episodes
May 27, 2022 • 16 mins
Greg Hoffman turned up to Nike HQ in a borrowed van in 1992. Twenty seven years later, he left the building as a creative giant, having worked alongside the heroes of his youth at the highest level of sport.
During his time as Global CMO, he led iconic campaigns across football, basketball, tennis and athletics, always looking outside himself, always listening and always trying to do better for himself and his team.
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During his time as Global CMO, he led iconic campaigns across football, basketball, tennis and athletics, always looking outside himself, always listening and always trying to do better for himself and his team.
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February 9, 2022 • 21 mins
Hepzhi Pemberton has her work cut out: With a clear mission to prove that business (and society) does better when it embraces diversity, she's up against a self-harming system that starts at the top.
For instance, in March 2021 there were more FTSE 100 CEO’s called "Andy" or "Steve" than there were female CEO's and CEO's from ethnic minorities combined.
But it's not just race and gender bias that can get in ...
For instance, in March 2021 there were more FTSE 100 CEO’s called "Andy" or "Steve" than there were female CEO's and CEO's from ethnic minorities combined.
But it's not just race and gender bias that can get in ...
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December 14, 2021 • 42 mins
This week Richard Kilgarriff shares OMI with two brilliant minds: England Rugby World Cup champion, Sky broadcaster and club coach Will Greenwood and his friend of 30 years Ben Fennell, whose stellar career in advertising taught him how to learn, lead and grow at an elite level.
Together, Will and Ben have produced a book for leaders who want to blend their own personal development with the growth of the people around...
Together, Will and Ben have produced a book for leaders who want to blend their own personal development with the growth of the people around...
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November 29, 2021 • 36 mins
In Wonderworks – Literary Invention and The Science of Stories – dual trained neuroscientist and doctor of literature Angus Fletcher explains how mankind's most enduring technology makes our past, present and future worth living.
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November 29, 2021 • 2 mins
As the founder of Bookomi - the UK's leading independent connector of authors to audiences in clubs and companies - I've met some of the world's most wanted minds in new non-fiction.
Bookomi celebrates its tenth anniversary in 2022, and its longest running event series - Books for Breakfast at Soho House in London - was one of the first to introduce Yuval Harari and Sapiens.
Since then we've connected hundr...
Bookomi celebrates its tenth anniversary in 2022, and its longest running event series - Books for Breakfast at Soho House in London - was one of the first to introduce Yuval Harari and Sapiens.
Since then we've connected hundr...
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October 2, 2021 • 30 mins
This week's Bookomi title is recommended by YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, who says it will help you see risk in an "entirely new way."
In Choose Possibility, Sukhinder Singh Cassidy debunks the "myth of the single choice," (the belief that big decisions rule our future) in favour of making many incremental decisions which move our career (and our life) forward every day.
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In Choose Possibility, Sukhinder Singh Cassidy debunks the "myth of the single choice," (the belief that big decisions rule our future) in favour of making many incremental decisions which move our career (and our life) forward every day.
Get your copy of the book HERE
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September 24, 2021 • 36 mins
This week we’re sharing OMI with the award-winning anti-racism activist, educator, entrepreneur, TED speaker, media commentator and author Nova Reid.
It’s high time, she says, for white people to confront the “ugliness of anti-blackness” in Britain’s colonial history, to own their shame and move towards a future of “mutual transformation” and “collective healing”
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It’s high time, she says, for white people to confront the “ugliness of anti-blackness” in Britain’s colonial history, to own their shame and move towards a future of “mutual transformation” and “collective healing”
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Between 2005 and 2019 Lionel Barber led the digital transformation of the most important business newspaper in the world – The Financial Times - taking it from the stands to the screen with over one million paying subscribers.
The Powerful and The Damned (buy your copy from Primrose Hill Books HERE) opens up the pages of his private diaries during that turbulent time, exposing off the record chats with the men and ...
The Powerful and The Damned (buy your copy from Primrose Hill Books HERE) opens up the pages of his private diaries during that turbulent time, exposing off the record chats with the men and ...
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July 29, 2021 • 32 mins
Power Play was picked by Publicis UK CEO Annette King, get your copy today from our indie bookshop partner Primrose Hill Books.
Elon Musk's impossible dream - to make a desirable, sustainable, mass market electric car - has become a multibillion dollar reality in Tesla - the most valuable automative company in the world.
Today, with a market valuation of $630 billion, Tesla's shares are worth more than Toyo...
Elon Musk's impossible dream - to make a desirable, sustainable, mass market electric car - has become a multibillion dollar reality in Tesla - the most valuable automative company in the world.
Today, with a market valuation of $630 billion, Tesla's shares are worth more than Toyo...
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July 16, 2021 • 43 mins
What type of leader are you? Are you an Alpha or a Lover even? Top city journalist James Ashton has met hundreds of CEO's and has come up with nine, distinct, types that classify the species in an original, memorable and insightful way.
In this episode we hear about tycoon Richard Desmond's transition from cigars to bananas and why people don't necessarily want the leader of the country to be the same type as the leader o...
In this episode we hear about tycoon Richard Desmond's transition from cigars to bananas and why people don't necessarily want the leader of the country to be the same type as the leader o...
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Neuroscientist, musician, educator and best-selling author (Your Brain on Music, The Organised Mind, The Changing Mind) Daniel Levitin picks a book by young British activist and entrepreneur Jeremiah Emmanuel. Daniel wants to know more about Jeremiah's story: growing up in Brixton, often homeless but always hopeful that life can get better, he ends up joining the UK youth parliament rubbing shoulders with the rich and famous a...
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Richard Kilgarriff shares OMI with President Barack Obama's Ambassador to the UK (2013-18).
Picked (and published) by Simon Sinek, this is a fascinating insight into the nexus of human relationships at the highest level of government and business, revealing a new way of managing power at a time when we seem more divided than together at home and abroad.
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Picked (and published) by Simon Sinek, this is a fascinating insight into the nexus of human relationships at the highest level of government and business, revealing a new way of managing power at a time when we seem more divided than together at home and abroad.
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Alan Jope, the man in charge of leading Unilever's 149,000 employees picks a book packed with Original Memorable Insights for anyone dealing with constant digital disruption at work.
Learn why the term "CEO" originally stood for "Chief Electricity Officer", how Netflix turned themselves upside down to deliver the future and what Disney boss Bob Iger did to get 100 million subscribers in the space in just over one year.
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Learn why the term "CEO" originally stood for "Chief Electricity Officer", how Netflix turned themselves upside down to deliver the future and what Disney boss Bob Iger did to get 100 million subscribers in the space in just over one year.
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FRAMERS takes the psychological concept of the “Framing Effect," whereby our decisions are influenced by the way information is presented to us – and applies it to a new mental model which will improve our lives as individuals, organisations and the world at large.
Picked by Pearson Plc CEO (and Richard's former boss) Andy Bird for Bookomi club members. JOIN TODAY.
Picked by Pearson Plc CEO (and Richard's former boss) Andy Bird for Bookomi club members. JOIN TODAY.
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Richard Kilgarriff shares OMI with Professor Robin Dunbar (famous for creating The "Dunbar Number" of 150 - the maximum number of relationships the human brain can maintain at any one time).
Professor Dunbar leads the social and evolutionary neuroscience research group at Oxford University and has dedicated his career to exploring and explaining the Human Social World, possibly, he says, “the most complex phenomenon in the...
Professor Dunbar leads the social and evolutionary neuroscience research group at Oxford University and has dedicated his career to exploring and explaining the Human Social World, possibly, he says, “the most complex phenomenon in the...
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April 30, 2021 • 28 mins
You might want the power that comes with the top job, but would you want to be Prime Minister today? A role which, since 1945, has always started OK and ended badly.
In this episode Richard Kilgarriff shares OMI with the world's leading authority on the people who have inhabited No.10 Downing Street for the last 300 years.
How does Boris Johnson compare to his predecessors in terms of intelligence and conviction? What...
In this episode Richard Kilgarriff shares OMI with the world's leading authority on the people who have inhabited No.10 Downing Street for the last 300 years.
How does Boris Johnson compare to his predecessors in terms of intelligence and conviction? What...
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In this short episode of the Bookomicast for Leaders Who Are Readers, Christian Gladwell, Global Chief Executive of M&C Saatchi Performance picks Tarzan Economics by Will Page.
To become a Bookomi member and get our free weekly email CLICK HERE Meanwhile, if you'd like to go deeper into Will's OMI, you can get your own copy of the book from the Bookomi section of our independent bookshop partner HERE.
To become a Bookomi member and get our free weekly email CLICK HERE Meanwhile, if you'd like to go deeper into Will's OMI, you can get your own copy of the book from the Bookomi section of our independent bookshop partner HERE.
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Kicking off Series 2 with a new format and a new Bookomi Club for Leaders Who Are Readers, Anne Limb (UK Scouts Association/UK Innovation) and James Devine (NHS Medway Trust) pick Clive Lewis's guide to detoxifying the poison of pressure and uncertainty at work. You can get a copy of Clive's book, with free P&P in the Bookomi section of Primrose Hill Books HERE . To hear the full conversation and find out more about the be...
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December 10, 2020 • 52 mins
For years the BBC has lost battles with right wing lobbyists, free market economists and competitors who frame the corporation as biased, bloated, elite and out of touch with the people who pay for it to exist.
In The War Against The BBC, London Business School Professor and "critical friend" of the corporation Patrick Barwise traces a line of anti-auntie gunpowder back to a surprisingly small but powerful and deter...
In The War Against The BBC, London Business School Professor and "critical friend" of the corporation Patrick Barwise traces a line of anti-auntie gunpowder back to a surprisingly small but powerful and deter...
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November 10, 2020 • 26 mins
Grace Campbell takes you on a whirlwind tour of childhood, adolescence and young adulthood, growing up in a playground of political celebrity, idiot boys and brilliant girlfriends. This is a must-listen episode for all young women and parents of daughters navigating the passion and pitfalls of teenaged life. Get your copy of Grace's book HERE.
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