Book review

Every founder should apply the strategic box. A long time ago, me and Brian O’Kane invented this strategic box when we wrote “Growing your own business, a workbook”. It is a quick frame and filter to determine your strategy, using six statements: vision, mission, passion, values, positioning, and resourcing. Not only does it works to align […]

There was me thinking that food was the basis of Ayurveda. Until I started reading “Ayurvedic healing”. The book explains that Ayurveda is more about meditation and mantras. Also a book that collected over 600 studies about Ayurveda. An awesome book.  You are killing yourself One-third of cancers have diet as a risk factor. Over the

Intrapreneurship and culture are the only effective ways to boost your innovation metabolism—and engender a transformation that eliminates the distinction between startup and incumbent.  How? That is the question posed in “From Incremental to Exponential: How Large Companies Can See the Future and Rethink Innovation”. How to unleash the potential to transform large business quickly. How

I first came across David Goggins when I read “Living with a Navy Seal”. A book about an ordinary person extending his capabilities by taking on Navy Seals principles. Goggins wrote his own book, “Can’t Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds”. A book so tough, it hurts. Why be mediocre There is an

This blog is going to be slightly schizophrenic. A review of  “The hypnosis flywheel for entrepreneurs, guaranteed more profit”. Ricardo Nielsen I had the pleasure of working with Ricardo Nielsen as part of my #bookin8days service. We started with developing the business plan. Focussing on a target audience, problem definition, not-to-copy, distribution channels, business models

I have been fascinated by the future of the labour market. For me, it started with a book called “Jobshift” by William Bridges, a book that suggested that we would get to a cake layer model. With an elite on top, a middle layer and a large bottom layer of unskilled labour. In some ways,

I am currently on my fifth book about Ayurveda. It is a fascinating subject. I just finished “Ayurveda, practical guide to optimal health, healing and vitality” by Geeta Vara and “Ayurveda beginners guide” by Susan Weis-Bohlen. Balance Ayurveda combines mind, body, spirit creating a balanced bioenergetic system. Strong digestive fire, nourished body tissues, well functioning

Living in balance with nature. Who does not want that? That is why India invented Ayurveda 5000 years ago. They also invented Prajna, Maya and Ananda. Wisdom, magic and bliss. Five thousand years later, those are in short supply. We all need more of that. More wisdom, more magic and more bliss. Harmony Balance and

For the last two weeks, I have advised everyone that I talk to, to pick up a copy of “The ministry for the future”. Not a business book, but a novel. A novel about climate change. The last time I got excited about a novel covering business topics was “Change agent” by Daniel Suarez.  Blow