The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed My rating: 4 of 5 stars Set in the city where I grew up and in a time not too long before I was born, this novel describes the events around the unlawful killing of two people. Both are immigrants who live in the area around Cardiff Docks thatContinue reading “The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed”
Category Archives: Books
The Weekend Read – PAMBO by Baker & Davies
I read this after meeting Michael Baker recently and being impressed with his ideas. When he couldn’t quite reconcile existing management theories with the real world he decided to write his own practical book. A fable of a newly appointed manager discovering that life after promotion isn’t quite as easy as it looks, it dealsContinue reading “The Weekend Read – PAMBO by Baker & Davies”
The Weekend Read – Can Medicine Be Cured? by Seamus O’Mahony
Can Medicine Be Cured? : The Corruption of a Profession I have an instinctive leaning towards any O’Mahony from Cork because my maternal grandmother, Catherine O’Mahony, was Cork born and bred. Stories of, and meetings with, members of the extended O’Mahony family have been some of the highlights of my life. This book examines modern medicineContinue reading “The Weekend Read – Can Medicine Be Cured? by Seamus O’Mahony”
The Monday Morning Quote #647
“Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.” John Kenneth Galbraith via “How to be a Complete and Utter F**k Up“ by Steve McDermott (possibly the best self-help book ever written – but then again, possibly not)
The Weekend Read – Not Invented Here
A lovely, useful and stimulating little book. Compact in size but large in ideas. Its premise is to give the reader ideas to look at other industries and see what they might borrow. We are all encouraged to think out of our box, this has ideas for thinking from further afield. Easy to read andContinue reading “The Weekend Read – Not Invented Here”
The Weekend Read – redux.
In which I re-read some of the books that have had a prolonged influence on me. “Creative Visualisation” by Shakti Gawain I bought (and read) this book in September 1988, I had just opened my first practice and had a week in London on the Cranio-Sacral course at the British School of Osteopathy – itselfContinue reading “The Weekend Read – redux.”
Read a book! You’re too busy? All the more reason.
I know when life is getting to me, it’s when I stop reading (fiction especially) because “I don’t have time”. What I do have is time that I waste on apparently being busy, doing things that could be started, completed and given me time to read. That’s why this article resonated with me. It’s thatContinue reading “Read a book! You’re too busy? All the more reason.”
The Monday Morning Quote #591
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view …until you climb into his skin and walk around in it” Atticus Finch in Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird“
The Weekend Read – The Go-Giver
I was listening to Bob Burg, the co-author of this little book speaking the other day and it took me back to when I first read it. I had been persuaded that what I needed to succeed was to work hard and faster than everyone else. It went against the grain but if everyone else saidContinue reading “The Weekend Read – The Go-Giver”
The Weekend Read – How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
Probably the first time management book, written by the prolific novelist and writer Arnold Bennett was published in 1908. Its messages and lessons are still relevant and as important now than they were 112 years ago. The context has changed but the distractions have not if anything they are greater. This was part of largerContinue reading “The Weekend Read – How to Live on 24 Hours a Day”
The Incisal Edge 