The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

thank you your book is as real as you are ... it's an inspiration to so many young men that need that

I've someone sent me a book and I've actually downloaded I've got it on the audio book ... it changed a lot of people's lives ... I should read that book

Steve Peters who is the author of The Chimp Paradox ... it helped my business partner change his life ... it explains why we argue and how to control the chimp part of our brain

Never Give Up. It's the name of your latest book.

Never Give Up the name of your recent book this book I got the sense that it was slightly more special than previous books to you and that it had taken five years to write this book that you wrote it all yourself

I wrote an autobiography called mud sweat and tears originally but the truth is you know that and that book did well you know it did 20 weeks at number one and I always kind of felt that I'm not going to beat that I'm not going to do another but we're done but that book really ended as TV started and so many of the questions that I get asked by my kids and by people in the street always like the behind the scenes what was it like on this what was it like taking that person or what about the struggles there or whatever and in a way they're the stories that I wanted my boys to understand you know and I think my kids have kind of grown up and seen the good sight seen the things that have worked but aren't always aware of the many failures behind those successes and I wanted to be able to share all of that and share the things that actually made the difference and I wanted to write it myself and you know be honest in it and so it took a long time to write but I'm really proud of it and I think it was always going to be called Never Give Up

I'm proud to call it Never Give Up

you're someone that's recommend everybody reads the paperback is out on the 9th of June but it's really you can tell you've written it you can tell that it's come from a place of real authenticity and someone who is is willing to tell you the truth and we need a lot more of that

I wrote an autobiography called mud sweat and tears originally but the truth is you know that and that book did well you know it did 20 weeks at number one

I delve deep into your story, into your book, it became so apparently clear to me that your early years, your childhood were very, very formative.

One of the other quotes which I found really interesting and inspiring was that your aim when you started Dermalogica was to piss off the 80% and to please the 20%. That's a quote taken from your book, Skin in the Game.

In the book, Skin in the Game, I tell the story of the acquisition because the likely suspects of who would acquire us... guided us was Unilever.

I learned so much just from researching your life and your book, the sort of human vulnerable honest nature, whilst also this constant undertone of real actionable advice is what makes it so important.

And that's in part because you've left yourself, right? In the pursuit of cool, you've abandoned your authenticity. You talk about that in chapter six of your book, Emotion By Design, which is out now. You talk about the Air Force One in that chapter as an example of success in that realm.

Reading your book, Emotion By Design, um, has taught me a lot of the things that I did right. And I didn't even know I did right.

I think that book was also about corporate feminism, about fixing the woman and not fixing the structure. And look, I acknowledge that in the book that, you know, but what I used to say is, you know, while we're fixing the institutions, let's figure out how we can fix ourselves.

I'm guessing your book Brave Not Perfect was written in this period of your life.

Right? Yeah. Because there's many things you regret about that book.

Thank you for writing a book that I feel everybody needs to read. Pay Up the future of women and work.

I'm guessing your book Brave Not Perfect was written in this period of your life.

Right? Yeah. Because there's many things you regret about that book.

In 2002, much later, I run across Jim Camp's book, Start With No, and he talked about effectiveness in business negotiation, helping your counterpart discover the best answer.

What Kahneman has talked about in his book, Thinking Fast and Slow, pondering, he would call slow thinking, indepth thinking, where you really think about stuff.

Have you read The Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela? No. Oh my God. You have to read this book.

He was in prison for 28 years and he comes out and is like, no, no, no, we're not seeking revenge. That to oppress is to give up your humanity. He talked about the third way, unity, and refusing to be the oppressor or the oppressed.

We've published four books so far. We have two coming on the way, which is really exciting. How to Make a Plant Love You, Trust First, The Power of Giving Away Power, and our newest one is called Partnering.

I wrote Soul for Happy at a time where Ali had just left our world and he helped me really, really figure things out.

Tim, I read in your book, Winning, The Unforgiving Race to Greatness, Chapter 12. And I don't usually start with people's books. I want to usually start somewhere else. But in Chapter 12, you talk about this concept of the dark side and the darker side.

I said this in Winning. Different scares people. When you're different, it scares people. When the world is different, it scares people.

One of the things you said, which I found really thought provoking and it kind of bucked the trend in chapter 12 of your book is when someone says showing up is half the battle, you're looking at an individual who is already losing the battle.

In chapter five of your book, you speak to some of these things that Michael would do to his teammates.

I also talked about this in Winning when I described how the dark side can be both a driving force and a source of pain.

One of the things that I talk about in my other book, Relentless, one of the 13, I said, you know exactly who you are.

I said this in Relentless when I explained that knowing exactly who you are is essential to being Relentless.

In your first book, you talked a lot about employee satisfaction. So your first book was called First Break All the Rules, which was based on Gallup research...

so funny because I wrote a book when I was bloody autobiography at 12 you know you get a book deal and you're like okay and when it's called Nice To Meet You it's like my career so far in 2012

and the impact that I had positively and negatively to myself my relationships my career how I hurt people how people hurt me I wrote this big chapter on love and personal love and then I deleted it all

She wrote How to Be a Boss, her first book. It's... I have a book club called Lily's Library...

I think it was a bit of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

I think that was the Willy Wonka element, I feel like Charlie who's now going through the test... it's like the Willy Wonka element, I feel like Charlie...