Book review

When we work with start-ups and SMEs, we always ask the exit questions. Have you planned one? Should you? When? Whom? Etc. That is why I picked up “Exit Path: How to Win the Start-up End Game”. A business plan without an exit strategy is only half complete as it leaves unanswered many important strategic

Richard Rumelt is the author of “Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The difference and why it matters“. An excellent book about strategy. Hence picking up “The Crux: How Leaders Become Strategists”. Focussing on the crux, understanding what is truly important and which is secondary. It is about judging the difficulties of dealing with these issues and the

I bought this book based on the first word. “TomorrowMind: Thrive at Work with Resilience, Creativity and Connection, Now and in an Uncertain Future”. A tomorrow mind?  Our minds are not fit for purpose The book starts by explaining that our mind, which evolved over millions of years, is not suitable for the world we

I have always been fascinated by the supernormal, the paranormal, Eastern philosophy, the metaphysical, the occult, the esoteric and the deeper hidden reality beyond the mundane world. The Lindy effect The more you read about it, the more you understand that the current hard science simply does not have all the answers. Or even worse,

I am a huge fan of Bill Bryson. I just finished reading “The Body: A Guide for Occupants”. The book illustrates how miraculous, wondrous, special and mysterious our bodies are. We are not cheap. The full cost of building a new human being, using the obliging Benedict Cumberbatch as a template, would be £96,546.79. Where

A long time ago now, I read “The Shallows” . A very sobering book about how computers, the internet and social media are messing up your attention span. Once you read that, you will never be the same. Stolen focus Hence “Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention. The book begins with a personal journey

If you are interested in mindfulness and want to read just one book, I would recommend “The Hidden Messages in Water”. A book about water. You are 70% water. When we start life as an embryo, we are 99% water. If you die of old age, you will probably be about 50% t water. In

“Find Your Red Thread: Make Your Big Ideas Irresistible” is a book about storytelling. Ideas are built on stories. That is how your brain processes new ideas. A story. The best way to make your idea irresistible is to build the story people will tell themselves about it. Whenever you’re asking someone to change their

Curiosity is an endangered species. But curiosity and imagination are the sources of the solutions for the crises we are currently facing. That is the starting point of “Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures”. I tend to agree. We are not spending enough time thinking and exploring ideas. Business is uncomfortable with

I had the pleasure of working with PMI, the Project Management Institute. I learned a lot. Some very clever people thinking about project management. One of the books that I found intriguing was “ “The project revolution”.  We were working on the citizen development revolution, where everything becomes a project. Small project in particular. Making project management