Marshall Cavendish Author
Profile
Name: Philip Whiteley
DOB: 10 December 1962
Birthplace: Bradford,
West Yorkshire, UK
First job: Volunteer
residential worker,
The Simon Community, north London.
Current job: Full-time
freelance author Home: Old cottage in
Ampthill, Bedfordshire
Car: Citroen C3
Favourite book: La
Peste (The Plague), Albert Camus
Favourite film: Casablanca
Favourite
music: Bob
Dylan
Favourite gadget: Still
the PC. I’m
a writer!
Favourite website: Twitter,
especially for running commentary during a major live event.
Best
holiday: To
Loire Valley, France in 1970, when I was 7. Different world…
Career highlight: Launch
of How to Manage in a Flat World in September 2007, supported
by leading
business and political
figures at international video-conference.
Career lowlight: Returning
from South America in the middle of a recession in
1992 and having to do sub-editing shifts to make ends meet.
Normal
working day: I work best and most creatively
in the morning. After arranging breakfast for the
family, I work intensively
from around 8.30-11.30. Then walk the dogs and have
some lunch. I do a few extra hours in the afternoon,
often
less
intensively,
and sometimes Saturday mornings.
Downtime: Watching
movies with my wife Rose; walking in Ampthill country
park, chatting with
friends. I love playing five a side football.
Best piece
of advice: The best advice I received
was from my first editor Roy: Get the best story
and
just tell
it. Hook
the reader in
so that they find themselves reading it without
even intending to.
The most important advice I would give is that
life is not short: you get second chances, and
third,
fourth, fifth etc.
So never give up.
Read Philip
Whiteley and Susan Bloch's blog Human
Internet
Philip Whiteley's self-published book
Meet the New Boss made it to the shortlist for the coveted
Management Book of the
Year,
organised
by the
UK Chartered Management
Institute in association with the British Library.
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