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The Weekend Read – Your Best Year Yet by Jenny Ditzler

Sunday, December 20th, 2009

This 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 (owned [...]

The Weekend Read – Mastering The Business Of Practice by Marc Cooper

Saturday, November 21st, 2009

I 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, 2009

My 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?
These [...]

Think and Grow Rich

Sunday, October 25th, 2009

Napoleon 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.

The Weekend Read – Rowing The Atlantic-Lessons Learned on the Open Ocean by Roz Savage

Saturday, October 24th, 2009

This is the story of a young(ish) woman who had the courage to listen to her instinct, walk away from her seemingly conventional life and re-invent herself as an ocean explorer and climate change campigner. From a degree at Oxford University, good jobs in business and a seemingly happy marriage to a single handed oar [...]

Seth Godin’s Reading List

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

After the summer novels on the beach here’s a few suggestions from Seth’s library.

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Is it a duck or a rabbit?

The Weekend Read – Synchronicity (The Inner Path of Leadership) by Joseph Jaworski

Sunday, July 12th, 2009

This is (yet) another book that I wouldn’t have come across without Chris Barrow’s guidance, so cheers again cb. One of the joys or occasional chores of this, recently neglected, part of the blog is that I demand of myself to re-read or at least scan the mentioned book if it isn’t a new one [...]

W.H.S. – Bring back choice.

Sunday, June 14th, 2009

I have a soft spot for W.H.Smith & Son, they were my father’s first employers and he worked for them from 1938 through until 1953. Had he not he would not have moved from South Wales to Gloucester, would not have visited his boss, a man with the improbable name of Arthur Austritch, and would [...]

The Weekend Read – The Scientific Basis of Oral Health Education

Sunday, June 14th, 2009

Now in its sixth edition this slim volume by Ronnie Levine and Catherine Stillman-Lowe was released during the last couple of months.
Described as “an essential document for all those involved in providing oral health education to the public” I cannot praise it enough. During my visits to dental practices and conversations with teams I am [...]