Boss Vs Book: Recent Episodes
Catie Romero-Finger, Anjalee Perera
Boss Vs Book is the book club for business leaders in podcast form! Together, aspiring entrepreneurs Catie Romero-Finger and Anjalee Perera read the books of the most successful leadership coaches of our time in a bid to figure out how they crushed it in business.
They’re very keen to learn because Anjalee and Catie have just launched their own business consultancy, and they hope they'll be getting so 'lit' from the advice of these renowned authors that it will inspire and guide them along their own journey.
So join these two emerging leaders as they apply from the lessons they learn in real time to a real business – the ultimate test of whether business books like this really do work...
[RECORDED 3rd MARCH 2020] In this extended episode, Catie gets fed up of the repetitiveness and asks, isn't it obvious that treating employees better leads to better customer service? Anjalee responds with (another!) rant about the NHS and bad bosses in general. They also share feedback they've got about the podcast and have a moment of refelction where they ask, is goal-setting always the right thing to do...?
Anjalee goes on a massive rant about Simon Sinek's claims about neuroscience while Catie breaks down the major theme of this book: the mysterious Golden Circle...
Catie and Anjalee take a look at the ways Sinek reckons we all get manipulated into buying stuff. From price to promotions, and aspirations to fear, how are all of these tactics interwoven? What are the costs of using them? And is Simon Sinek really the king of blanket statements? Listen to find out!
In this second meeting of our business book club, Anjalee and Catie tackle 'Assume You Know', the first chapter of Simon Sinek's Start With Why (2009). It's a short chapter, but it packs a punch, as Catie and Anjalee ask how do we differentiate between convincing leaders with good intentions and those leaders who are very convincing at face value, but have more sinister motives within?
In this very first episode of Boss Vs Book, the book club for business leaders in podcast form, Anjalee and Catie dive into the Introduction of Simon Sinek's world famous first book, 'Start With Why' (2009). Will this text live up to its glittering reputation under the critical eyes of our hosts? Does this intro chapter set us up to be inspired, or are the examples Sinek gives a little too generic for that?