A small group of business owners who meet once a month to read a book together and talk about what it actually means for the businesses they run.
Someone at the front. Everyone else in rows. A polite Q&A at the end where two people ask questions and the rest check their phones. You leave inspired for an afternoon, then nothing changes.
The Entrepreneurs Book Club has no speaker, no slide deck and no networking break. Everyone reads the same chapters, and everyone turns up ready to talk. That is the whole format, and it works better than anything with a stage ever has.
Stages create audiences. Tables create participants. When six experienced founders look at the same page, they see more than any one of them would alone.
"The best business conversations I have had this year happened over a book and a coffee, for less than the price of a round."
No homework you will dread. Around four hours a month, reading included.
One book at a time, two or three chapters a month. You read at your own pace, on your own time. The reading is the easy part.
One weekday morning a month, in person in the Midlands, over breakfast. Around two hours. Everyone has done the reading and everyone contributes.
The conversation keeps going in our members' WhatsApp group between meetings. A question, a quote, a problem someone is sitting on.
We keep the group small and we choose for fit, both ways. Here is the honest version of who thrives here and who does not.
We are not building an audience. We are building a table, and a table only seats so many. We cap the club at twelve members on purpose. At twelve, everyone speaks, everyone is challenged, and there is nowhere to hide.
Membership runs month to month. No long contract, no joining fee. If it is not for you, you leave. Most people who join do the opposite.
Not ready to commit? Ask about coming to one meeting as a guest first. No fee, no obligation.
A year ago this was a WhatsApp message to a few people we respected: do you want to read a book together? No business plan. Just a question.
Founder of Clarigen, where he helps professional services firms grow. Rich started the club because the best conversations he had about business were never at conferences. They were over a book, with people who were building something too.
A business owner who believes the hardest part of running a company is making decisions without anyone around you who understands the weight of them. Greg co-founded the club to fix exactly that, for himself and for everyone else at the table.
The club is invitation-only and we choose for fit. This is not a hard sell. We will read what you send, and if it looks like a good match we will get back to you about coming along, usually within a couple of days.
Prefer to talk it through? Email us at richard@hunter-rice.co.uk.
