Welcome to Hari Abburi, author of Ideas Don’t Die, Companies Do – Future-proof your business by creating an ideas-obsessed enterprise. Hari is CEO of the Fast Future Executive with a long career as a leading global executive. 

One of the contentious claims is that ‘ideas create more value than customers.’ As we have all been slavishly trained that ‘the customer is everything,’ how can this possibly be? In the book, Hari writes about three principles of exponentiality: purpose, curiosity and design. What stops people and organisations from taking on the energy or drive to keep ideas – and companies – alive?

Ideas Don’t Die, Companies Do – Future-proof your business by creating an ideas-obsessed enterprise is packed with ideas and example businesses such as IBM, Amazon, GE, Boeing as well as startups and challengers. The book is a thought-provoking, nicely balancing facts, stories and a kind of you-can-do-it enthusiasm, just over 200 pages, beautifully published by Wiley, available of course from Amazon and all good bookshops.

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Hello and welcome to Anthony Tasgal, known universally as Tas, author of The Classical Marketing Book – Marketing Lessons from the Greeks and Romans. To give you a little background, Tas has written six other business books including The Consumer Behaviour Book and The Storytelling Book, and is a self-described ‘man of many lanyards’ as a trainer, author, TEDx speaker, brand strategist and lecturer.

The Classical Marketing Book isan energising, wild, flight-of-thought spin through insights, ideas and conundrums from acronymous fish to a plea to ‘be more Caesar,’ highly enjoyable and a great read, published by LID Publishing and of course available from Amazon and all good bookshops.

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Welcome to the Strand Review of Books, and welcome to Stacy Spikes, author of Black Founder, The Hidden Power of Being an Outsider.

Among many other things, Stacy founded MoviePass, with its own tumultuous journey – and story of the rise and fall and rise again is worth every cent for the book. HBO made a documentary about the MoviePass story, and was even nominated for an Emmy, and was the second-most watched item after Dune on HBO last summer.

Black Founder, The Hidden Power of Being an Outsider, is an inspiring rollercoaster story from someone who really has been there. Somehow Stacy has squeezed into just 270 or so pages -available from Amazon and all good bookshops.

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Kian Bakhtiari is founder of The People, was Youth Insight Lead at Dentsu, an adviser to UN Climate Change, and One Young World Ambassador. The danger with a book such as Marketing for Social Change is that it falls into the category of “worthy sentiments, but right now I’m fighting commercial fires.”

Kian tells us why he says that we need a new way of doing things, and brands can no longer afford to stay silent on important social and environmental issues.

Marketing for Social Change – How to turn purpose into business and social impact, published by Kogan Page, is a wild romp through a thousand ideas that might just inspire you, available from Amazon (the online store, not the tropical rainforest) and of course from all good bookshops

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Hello and welcome to Heverton Anunciação, author of the wildly titled The Data Scientist and His Demons with the slightly more direct subtitle Advice from 31 big names in data science around the world.

Heverton is a specialist in all things customer-related, with experience in multiple sectors including telecoms, enterprise software – and even political presidential campaigns, with four books to his name. Some of the book is pretty technical and all of the book is very fascinating – who is The Data Scientist and His Demons aimed at? And, what about the title???

Thank you so much to Heverton Anunciação, author of The Data Scientist and His Demons, a busy compendium of 31 very different angles on data science and how it impacts business. At around 180 pages and one of the best covers on a business book I have seen for a long time, The Data Scientist and His Demons is available at the click of a doohickey from Amazon and of course from all good bookshops.

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From teenage market trader in vintage denim to co-founding Fresh Britain to redesigning global brands including Real Madrid - Bob Sheard takes you through the real-world reasons why brands have a responsbility to the human race.

Surprisingly, for a skeptic like me, I was convinced.

An excellent read, The Brand New Future – How brands can save the world, is published by LID Publishing at a very modest £12.99, available at the click of a doohickey from Amazon and of course from all good bookshops.

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Welcome to Kate Mackie, author of B2B Marketing Fundamentals – Drive impact across brand, reputation, relationships and revenue.

Kate is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, an alumnus of the Instititute for Real Growth, a member of the Marketing Society where she was nominated as Most Influential Marketer of the year 2023, and is currently a Partner at EY, where she leads global marketing.

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Welcome to Alex Vail, author of Data Culture – How to Succeed with Digital Transformation and Artificial Intelligence.

With a background spanning technology, financial services, innovation and manufacturing, Alex has 25 years’ experience in developing high-performance cultures, and in delivering marketing and evidence-based stakeholder management in a variety of businesses.

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“Organizations, like people, need to be seen as living, evolving organisms.” We have ten minutes: what on earth does that mean?

Paul is founding director of Living Work Consulting, is also a Programme Lead for the People and Organizational Change executive education masterclass at Henley Business School, and is a former Senior Partner at Korn Ferry.

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Welcome today to John Volanthen, cave-explorer and cave rescue diver, and author of the extraordinary record of the Thuam Luang rescue of the Wild Boars, titled Thirteen Lessons that Saved Thirteen Lives.

Normally I am not a fan of ‘Look at my derring-do amazing heroics and translate them into management-speak,’ but I think this book might just be different.

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Welcome to Sandy Carter, author of the intriguingly titled AI First, Human Always, embracing a new mindset for the era of superintelligence. Sandy is the founder of Unstoppable Women of AI and W3, and COO of Unstoppable Domains – and formerly was with AWS and IBM among others.

Future Horizon – AI’s transformative path – is for me at least a bit of a mind-fry. If you have one message in a minute for listeners, what would it be?

Published by Wiley, AI First, Human Always is gripping stuff folks, and is available of course from Amazon and all good bookshops.

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Welcome to Paul J H Schoemaker PhD, author of Strategic Thinking and Decision Making. Here’s a clip from Paul’s web site: Much of Paul’s work reflects the cognitive, emotional, and social biases many of us prone to, from descriptive insights to prescriptive recommendations based on normative theories and time-tested heuristic approaches. In my own words, Paul knows what makes us tick or not!

Published by Anthem Press, Strategic Thinking and Decision Making is available of course from Amazon and all good bookshops.

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Welcome to Areej AbuAli, author of Community Building for Marketers – how to connect, engage and foster growth. Areej is the founder of Women in Tech SEO, a global community in marketing and tech with more than 10,000 members and 50,000 followers, which gives some cred to the title and thinking, I guess!

Published by Kogan Page, Community Building for Marketers is available of course from Amazon and all good bookshops.

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Welcome today to Janne Tienari, co-author with Paul Savage of Moomin Management – Redefining Generosity. Janne is Professor of Management and Organisation at the Hanken School of Economics, Finland.

Published by Bristol University Press Moomin Management – Redefining Generosity is a compact 140 or so pages, available from Amazon and all good bookshops.

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Welcome to Cindy Anderson and Anthony Marshall, co-authors of The ROI of Thought Leadership subtitled Calculating the value that sets organizations apart.

Cindy is the Chief Marketing Officer and Global Lead for Engagement & Eminence at the IBM Institute for Business Value, and Anthony is Senior Research Director of Thought Leadership also at the IBM Institute for Business Value.

The book is based on interviews with more than 4,000 business leaders, generating some impressive results – for example, 87% of executives say they had made a purchase decision in the last 90 days based on the thought leadership they consume. What is missing from the marketers’ mix that The ROI of Thought Leadership intends to address?

The ROI of Thought Leadership, a concise and compelling 200 or so pages, genuinely packed with data as well as presenting their view in a very direct and personal style, highly recommended – and beautifully presented as a hardback – published by Wiley and available, of course, from Amazon and all good bookshops.

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Welcome to Dr Gearóid Ó Súilleabháin, Head of the Department of Technology Enhanced Learning at Munster Technological University (MTU) and co-editor with Donna Lanclos and Tom Farrelly of How to Use Digital Learning with Confidence and Creativity.

While this is fundamentally a book written for academics working in higher education, away from the ivory towers and in the brutalist landscape of commerce, clearly there are impacts on working lives.

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Welcome to Aditya Simha, professor of management at the University of Wisconsin and most importantly author of Learning Leadership from Dogs subtitled What can Bulldogs, Dachshunds, Komondors, Pekingese and Otterhounds (among other dogs) teach us about effective leadership?

Beyond being the first business book to use the word ‘triskaidekaphobia,’ as well as some truly gruesome doggie puns in the chapter names, Professor Simha describes the qualities that he believes that leaders ought to have in order to be exemplary and effective - and which dogs possess those qualities

Thank you to Aditya Simha, professor of management at the University of Wisconsin and author of Learning Leadership from Dogs – full of fascinating doggie facts and leadership learning, the book is of course available from Amazon and all good bookshops.

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