We delivered a question storming session to a number of senior HR professionals on the future of work and the role of HRM. The Second Machine Age The book we used was “The second machine age”. A cracking book about the impact of exponential changes in technology on work, business, life and society. To stick […]
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Climate change will have a bigger impact on your family and friends and all of humanity than the Internet has had. This is from “Climate Change” by Joseph Romm. A very scary book. Scarier than “Future crimes“. Scarier than “Overconnected“. This is existential and it involves our children. We are near the tipping point At
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Recently I delivered a workshop on innovation management. The audience was a number of high potential start-ups. It is a tricky one. Innovation management needs to be ingrained into the DNA of a start-up company, particularly when they start to scale. Innovation management for corporates It should also not be high on the priority list.
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“Coherence” by Watkins is one of our favourite leadership books. It is about the physiology of decision making as a CEO. Alan wrote a blog about it Summary of coherence If I would summarise it in two sentences, it is about being aware of your emotions and particularly about being aware of your amygdala (the
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Books on being mindful I have been reading some very good books on being mindful, such as “Search inside yourself”, which is how Google is applying mind techniques to the workplace. Or “Buddha’s Brain” which is about the neuroscience behind meditation. Utterly fascinating and highly recommended. Already wrote about “The code of the extraordinary mind”
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Back to future For the craig, we went back to books we used with clients in 2011, when we invented blogging. Have not gone back to 2007, when we started Bookbuzz. The good old days of “Good to great” (the book we love to hate). “Blink”, Harry Potter and “The five dysfunctions of a team”.
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Marketing should be about differentiation and standing out. I love marketing. I hate how bad marketing is applied. It is a regular topic of conversations with our client CEOs. Lots of books On Amazon, there are over 60,000 books listed about marketing. We will always mention Brian Solis as recommended reading. If you want an interesting
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Healthy mind “Healthy mind, healthy body” is something that CEOs, entrepreneurs, and owner managers should take to heart. In Bookbuzz we have covered quite a few of those books. From “Mindstore” by Jack Black, “Move, eat, sleep” by Tom Rath, down to “Coherence” by Alan Watkins. Power of the mind The power of the mind
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Business planning Twenty years ago Brian O’Kane and I wrote SYOB, a workbook to help you write your business plan. We are currently working on the 4th edition, and it is a good time to reflect on what has changed. Conclusion The conclusion is that business planning is dead. Long live business planning. Lots have
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I wrote a blog titled “Reinvention as they key skill for the 21st century.” Really happy with it. It was in preparation of a book review on RTE radio. I was so proud of my writing, I decided to make it the Bookbuzz e-zine. Feedback from my baby brother This is the e-mail I got
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