Good Writing

CNLP 814 | Networking Without the Awkward: Michael Bungay Stanier on Better 1:1s and Building a Path No One Else Is Walking

The Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast, 30 June 2026. The book comes up at 52 min 33 sec in.

Michael Bungay Stanier recommends Annie Lamott's recent book—co-written with her husband and titled approximately "How to Write Well"—as a terrific read. He describes it as focused on how to write a great sentence, containing 36 rules, arguing that the sentence is the fundamental unit of elegance in a book or sermon. Carey Nieuwhof says he is adding it to his summer reading list.

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