Books, audio and audience
Twenty years of reading business books, and a growing interest in how they sound.
This is the newest strand of my work, and deliberately separate from client strategy: a place to explore books, audio and the experience of an audience. If you know my consulting work, this page will feel a little different. That is intentional.
The questions I keep coming back to
What makes a business book worth reading
Thousands of business and non-fiction books in, some patterns are hard to unsee: the books that change how people work are rarely the longest, the loudest or the most heavily marketed.
Why some ideas travel and others stall
The difference is usually not the quality of the research. It is whether the idea is shaped so a reader can hold it, repeat it and use it under pressure.
What changes when a book becomes audio
Listening is a different experience from reading. Pacing, voice and emphasis can bring an idea closer, or flatten it entirely. That difference fascinates me.
Judgement in an AI-shaped working world
When producing content becomes cheap, the scarce things become judgement, audience understanding and knowing what good looks like. That thread runs through everything here.
Some books you read. The good ones you hear.
What is coming
- Articles and reviews on business and non-fiction books
- Conversations with authors and publishers about reader and listener experience
- Audiobook narration and other audio projects, in time
This page will grow as the work does. Nothing here is a finished offer yet, and I would rather say that plainly than pretend otherwise.
Publishing or writing business or non-fiction books?
If you are curious about how readers and listeners actually experience them, or you have an audio project in mind, I would love to hear from you.