Interview with Sam Smith, author of The Secret Sauce: Superscale your business and empower your talent with empathetic leadership
Sam Smith, author of The Secret Sauce: Superscale your business and empower your talent with empathetic leadership recommends a brilliant bunch of books!! Before jumping into the interview, please check out Sam's book:
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The Secret Sauce: Superscale your business and empower your talent with empathetic leadership
If you're heading towards your first million in revenue, you need a team that will help you scale without fail. Supercharge your business growth and build a team that shares your vision and values. The Secret Sauce reveals the recipe for a truly inclusive culture that makes your people feel uniquely valued. Set yourself apart from the competition by adding flavours that energise employees and the spice that enlivens your business prospects and long-term sustainable growth.
Read this book to understand:
• The importance of a growth mindset in building your business
• How to empower and motivate your team on the scaling journey
• What kind of culture encourages business growth
• Why good team communication matters so much
• What you gain when your employees are emotionally and financially engaged.
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Blackwells £16.16
Waterstones £13.99
Wordery $17.94
Q. Do you have a favourite smart thinking book (and why that book)?
Grit: Why passion and resilience are the secrets to success by Angela Duckworth. Description from Bookshop.org: (All links earn commission from purchases. Prices accurate at time of writing)
I love Grit: Why passion and resilience are the secrets to success by Angela Duckworth because it gets to the core of what drives success in any area of life - passion and resilience and how you can get it. It is a real focus on how to make people successful.
Grit: Why passion and resilience are the secrets to success
UNLOCK THE KEY TO SUCCESS
In this must-read for anyone seeking to succeed, pioneering psychologist Angela Duckworth takes us on an eye-opening journey to discover the true qualities that lead to outstanding achievement. Winningly personal, insightful and powerful, Grit is a book about what goes through your head when you fall down, and how that - not talent or luck - makes all the difference.
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Easons €12.31
Bookshop.org UK £12.34
Bookshop.org US $17.66
Blackwells £13.99
Waterstones £12.99
Wordery $16.65
Q. What's the most recent smart thinking book you've read (and how would you rate it)?
The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits by C.K. Prahalad. Description from Waterstones: (All links earn commission from purchases. Prices accurate at time of writing)
I have just finished The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid by CK Prahalad. It is an old book that has been updated but still so relevant to a new way of building businesses and to Inclusive Capitalism.
The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits
Drawing on Prahalad's breakthrough insights in The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, great companies worldwide have sought to identify, build, and profit from new markets amongst the world's several billion poorest people, while at the same time helping to alleviate poverty. Five years after its first publication, this book's ideas are no longer 'theory': they are proven, profitable reality. In the 5th Anniversary Edition, Prahalad thoroughly updates his book to reveal all that's been learned about competing and profiting 'at the bottom of the pyramid.'' Prahalad outlines the latest strategies and tactics that companies are utilizing to succeed in the developing world.
He interviews several innovative CEOs to discuss what they've learned from their own initiatives, including the Unilever business leader who's built a billion-dollar business in India. You'll find a new case study on Jaipur Rugs' innovative new global supply chain; updates to earlier editions' key cases; and up-to-the-minute information on the evolution of key industries such as wireless, agribusiness, healthcare, consumer goods, and finance. Prahalad also offers an up-to-date assessment of the key questions his ideas raised: Is there truly a market? Is there scale? Is there profit? Is there innovation? Is this a global opportunity? Five years ago, executives could be hopeful that the answers to these questions would be positive. Now, as Prahalad demonstrates, they can be certain of it.
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Waterstones £32.99
Q. Do you have a favourite childhood book?
The Famous Five Collection 1: Books 1-3 by Enid Blyton. Description from Bookshop.org: (All links earn commission from purchases. Prices accurate at time of writing)
I used to love the Famous Five by Enid Blyton.
The Famous Five Collection 1: Books 1-3
Julian, Dick, Anne, George and Timmy the dog find excitement and adventure wherever they go in Enid Blyton's most popular series.
Five On A Treasure Island
A shipwreck off Kirrin Island! But where is the treasure? The Famous Five are searching for clues - but they're not alone ... Someone else has joined the treasure hunt.
Five Go Adventuring Again
A thief at Kirrin Cottage! Who can it be? The Famous Five think they know - but they need proof! Then they find an old map and an unusual hiding place...
Five Run Away Together
Who's been on George's Island? And what is locked in the mysterious trunk hidden on Kirrin Island? The Famous Five think they're on the trail of smugglers - until they hear a child scream...
This 70th anniversary edition features the Classic editions of the first three Famous Five adventures in one volume and contains the original cover art and inside drawings by Eileen Soper.
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Easons €12.31
Bookshop.org UK £10.44
Blackwells $16.99
Waterstones £10.99
Wordery $11.28
Q. Do you prefer reading on paper, Kindle or listening to an audiobook?
Reading an actual book!
Q. Do you have a favourite bookshop (and why that shop)?
Waterstones
I would just head to my local Waterstones which is great
Many thanks to Sam for recommending a brilliant bunch of books!! Please don't forget to check out The Secret Sauce: Superscale your business and empower your talent with empathetic leadership.
Daryl
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