Books
« Previous EntriesThe Weekend Read – The Buddha, Geoff and Me by Edward Canfor-Dumas
Sunday, August 8th, 2010Sometime during the days following October 10th 1957 my father delivered my 4 year old self, wrapped in pyjamas and dressing gown, to The Laurels, Huntley. We made the journey because my brother had just been born, a home delivery, and I presume my Mum, whose 86th birthday it would have been today, needed some [...]
RSA Animate – Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us
Friday, June 4th, 2010To go hand in hand with his book Drive, here’s the animated lecture from Dan Pink to watch it click here. Think you know what motivates everybody? Think again.
Hugh MacLeod’s Great Ideas – 1) Ignore Everbody
Wednesday, May 26th, 2010I think that there is very little new under the sun so I try to acknowledge my sources whenever I can. Hugh MacLeod’s work is wonderfully original and his daily cartoons are consistently excellent; however, if anything, they tend to distract from how good his ideas are. He has just started a series entitled “Great [...]
Our National Smile
Wednesday, May 5th, 2010Our National Smile – It couldn’t happen here? THE MAKING OF THE AMERICAN MOUTH: DENTISTS AND PUBLIC HEALTH IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURYBy Alyssa Picard Piscataway (NJ): Rutgers University Press; 2008. 312 pp., $45.95 On 17 June 2007, Clark Hoyt, ombudsman for the public at the New York Times, wrote an entire column about a single [...]
The Weekend Read – The Art of Possibility
Saturday, May 1st, 2010Like a lot of great books this didn’t make complete impact until its second reading – or perhaps that just says a lot about the way that I am wired. The Art of Possibility is co-written by Rosamund Stone Zander and her husband Benjamin Zander. Rosamund is an executive coach and family systems therapist. Benjamin, [...]
The Weekend Read – Your Best Year Yet by Jenny Ditzler
Sunday, December 20th, 2009This is widely proclaimed as a “classic of its kind” and suggested by every life coach in the land and beyond. I have to admit that I have not read it, until now. So, as the Christmas season is just about upon us and a New Year beckons, I have decided to use Jenny’s book [...]
The Weekend Read – The Starbucks Experience
Sunday, November 29th, 2009(This review first went out in More Profit in Less Time in October 2007.) ….I took myself off to the closest bookshop to Rees Acres, that being ‘Waterstones’ in Literature Festival, Cheltenham, bought the book and settled down in the coffee shop within the bookshop. Now this coffee shop is a branch of Costa Coffee [...]
The Weekend Read – Mastering The Business Of Practice by Marc Cooper
Saturday, November 21st, 2009I first read this book just over 12 months ago and became an instant fan of Marc’s. Dr Cooper has been coaching dentists and their teams for 25 years and understands the Business of Dental Practice from top to bottom. As a qualified dentist and one time practicing periodontist his comprehension of the “sharp end” [...]
The Weekend Read – Ping by Alan Stevens
Saturday, November 14th, 2009My clients, like all owners of professional businesses, are aware that they need to promote themselves and their businesses; although in most cases the two are synonomous. But where to start? Newspapers? TV? Radio? and what about the apparently overwhelming number of social media opportunities. Where do they fit in with Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter and the rest? [...]
Think and Grow Rich
Sunday, October 25th, 2009Napoleon Hill’s book “Think and Grow Rich” is one of the most quoted by self improvement folks. It is a good, thought provoking, read and it’s so old that you can download it without cost here.
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