Something slightly different this week becuse it's not entirely a business book. In Solve for Happy, Mo Gawdat discusses his equation for happiness and how happiness is a choice which we can make every day. In other news James is back from a 90's weekend in Butlins so Trigger warning there be Earworms ahead!! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/3dads/message

This week we review They Ask You Answer - A revolutionary approach to inbound Sales, Content Marketing and Today's Digital Consumer I think we were all a bit giddy and it had been a long day but we had a good time recording it so apologies for that. We discuss how to use the thoughts in this book to get ahead of your competition while being an open book about what you charge and why it is important to be honest in what you put out there. Remember to check out the website 3dadspodcast.co.uk --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/3dads/message

This week we review Company of One - Why staying small is the next big thing for business by Paul Jarvis We discuss whether growing your business is the best thing to do and whether it suits us, the benefits of staying small to the business owner and what our plans are for the immediate future in our respective working lifes. Also could we be swapping Pizzas for Bacon Sandwiches??? Thank you for listening, if you would like to help us out we would really appreciate it if you subscribed and left a review on Apple - Also don't be afraid to share it with a friend, they will only judge you for a short while!!! Also join us on Facebook and let us know what you think just search @3Dads& --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/3dads/message

WE ARE BACK! After a bit of time away it wass great to finally get around a couple of laptops and discuss the books we have read and how they have changed our lives. Check out the rankings for Season 1 based on Readability and the Value of the Information Check out our NEW Website www.3dadspodcast.co.uk Editing by Matt Rogan Design by Frankman Design --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/3dads/message

This week we review Big Ideas for Small Business. Lee makes a BIG bet and Martin is left wondering if he is Lucifer or Lilly Savage! Let us know what you think, have you read it? Would you recommend it? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/3dads/message

After the revelation in the last episode with Lee and the nudist colony we had to review GETTING NAKED BY PATRICK LENCIONI. We discuss coaching, how we manage it in our businesses and the fable of this book. Do we recommend it though? You'll have to listen to find out! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/3dads/message

In this episode we check out HITTING THE WALL by Ash Taylor Ash kindly donated this book to us to review, brave boy! We talk about the sports we love and hate, nudity and go deep into certain sections of this book. Did James read this one? Was Pizza mentioned? You'll have to listen in to find out --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/3dads/message

In this episode we talk about the book recommended to us by our marketing manager Maggie Taylor of Frankman Design Marketing Made Simple by Donald Miller but did we discover that marketing really is a simple process based on what we learnt from this book? Standby for dodgy music choices, American gospelism and a bit of French thrown in --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/3dads/message

This week we review the shortest book we have done so far, Anything You Want by Derek Sivers. Martin struggled to remember the title and was channelling his inner Status Quo calling it Whatever you Want in the run up to the recording but all was well by the time we opened the microphones. With a book being so short you can read in an hour is it really any good for a business owner? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/3dads/message

In this episode we discuss one of many books written by Paul McGee but did it work for all of us? We also discuss pizza and the best way to take in a business book whether it be by audible, kindle or the old fashioned tried and tested book in the hand.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/3dads/message