Category Archives: Books

This review first appeared on GDP-UK http://www.gdpuk.com I read this book at a single sitting and really enjoyed it as a “fly past”. It’s full of ideas and tips resulting from James’ experiences of personal and professional life, initially as an associate but primarily as founder and principal of Bow Lane Dental in the CityContinue reading “The Weekend Read – Brush by James Goolnick”

Barely 50 pages long, I’m suggesting this book on this weekend to tie in with Super Bowl XLV Vince Lombardi (1913-1970) was an American football coach, in a professional coaching career that lasted 16 years from his start with the New York Giants as offensive co-ordinator 1n 1954 until his death from colon cancer inContinue reading “The Weekend Read – The Lombardi Rules by Vince Lombardi”

Michael Bungay Stanier is a one off. A much travelled man he was born and raised  in Australia, became a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University and is now a resident of Toronto. I love his sense of fun and innovation, he’s the founder and senior partner of Box of Crayons where he is dedicated toContinue reading “The Weekend Read – Do More Great Work by Michael Bungay Stanier”

I am fascinated by success and failure in sport. I love the small things that make a huge difference, the teams that are odds on favourites but come unstuck, the ability of an individual to turn their fortunes around. I have often wondered what would have happened had Gareth Edwards followed his athletics rather thanContinue reading “The Weekend Read: Bounce by Matthew Syed”

Near the top of the chart amongst “The 101 Things They Didn’t Teach You At Dental School”©  is “Finance”. Sadly a lot of dental businesses, particularly one man “bands”, are still run a bit like the owner ran their affairs as an undergraduate: “the end of the month arrives before the end of the money?Continue reading “The Weekend Read: Finance for Dentists – the essential handbook.”

One of the smallest books that I own and one of the most influential. There is little that I can add to the reviews that have already been written. Written in  9 days in 1945 and intended to be published anonymously  it was first published in Englisj 1959. Victor Frankl was born in Vienna inContinue reading “The Weekend Read – Man’s Search for Meaning”

Sometime during the days following October 10th 1957 my father delivered my 4 year old self, wrapped in pyjamas and dressing gown, to The Laurels, Huntley. We made the journey because my brother had just been born, a home delivery, and I presume my Mum, whose 86th birthday it would have been today, needed someContinue reading “The Weekend Read – The Buddha, Geoff and Me by Edward Canfor-Dumas”

I think that there is very little new under the sun so I try to acknowledge my sources whenever I can. Hugh MacLeod’s work is wonderfully original and his daily cartoons are consistently excellent; however, if anything, they tend to distract from how good his ideas are. He has just started a series entitled “GreatContinue reading “Hugh MacLeod’s Great Ideas – 1) Ignore Everbody”