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The Strand Review of Books

The Strand Review of Books

By: Toby Chapman-Dawe
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Should you buy the book? Given just ten minutes, authors explain their ideas!

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  • The Marketing Machine, with the author, Ros Conkie
    Mar 31 2026

    Welcome to the Strand Review of Books, and welcome to Ros Conkie, author of The Marketing Machine – How to engineer a system that drives sales and growth.

    Here the emphasis is on ‘engineer,’ as Ros holds a degree in mechanical engineering alongside her marketing experience.

    What does The Marketing Machine bring to the table that other marketing books do not? Are marketers avoiding measurement, or measuring the wrong things?

    Thank you so much to Ros Conkie, author of author of The Marketing Machine – How to engineer a system that drives sales and growth, coming in at a fraction over 200 pages, very readable and direct with plenty of diagrams, directions and checklists, and of course available from Amazon and all good bookshops.

    Thank you for listening, and good-bye!

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  • The Women of Microsoft, with the authors, Miri Rodriguez and Izabela Duiwe
    Mar 10 2026

    Hello and welcome to the Strand Review of Books, today with Miri Rodriguez and Izabela Duiwe, co-authors of The Women of Microsoft – Empowering stories from the minds that coded the world. Miri is the founder of empressa.ai and author, while Izabela works in the Microsoft Copilot Department.

    It’s a great read, totally focused on Microsoft, so if that’s not your cup of tea, maybe simply enjoy the stories spanning 256 pages and 13 chapters, beautifully published by Wiley, thank you for listening, and good-bye.

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  • The Digital Leaders's Playbook, with the author, Paul Coby
    Mar 3 2026

    Hello and welcome to Paul Coby, author of The Digital Leader’s Playbook – 62 Fundamental Maxims for Success for Today’s IT Executive. Paul was the first-ever Group CIO at four companies: British Airways, John Lewis Partnership, Johnson Matthey and Persimmon Homes.

    It’s a brave book that has 62 Fundamental Maxims on the cover, but in practice there are six core sections on management. In fact, the central theme is about being human; why is that? If there is a model CIO who takes on board all your maxims, what’s the key to the CIO’s purchasing heart?

    The Digital Leader’s Playbook – 62 Fundamental Maxims for Success for Today’s IT Executive, beautifully presented and published by LID Publishing, 160 packed pages of highly approachable maxims that apply to far more than the CIO role, and available of course from Amazon and all good bookshops.

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