Rob Yeung’s “How To Win” is a really useful book, filled with solid research based approaches that build into a powerful set of models and strategies for creating success in life. I really like the self analysis exercises that give some good insight into the way that you think and approach the situations covered in the book. The chapter …
I've been continuing to think about the whole thing of trust since my post on Tuesday, There seems to be a huge surplus of lack of trust around these days (Can you have a surplus of a lack of something? – anyway, I hope you know what I mean). We don't trust politicians – they …
Richard Wiseman's "59 Seconds" is an excellent book that I thoroughly recommend. Interesting, amusing, authoritative, useful and easy to read – it fulfils pretty much all of my requirements for great non-fiction. Over the years, I've used a lot of the methods and approaches discussed in it, and as a practitioner it's really handy to …
I'm currently listening to the audiobook of Nudge by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein. It's a fascinating and fun book that looks at the poor choices we tend to make in all sorts of everyday decisions, often because we are influenced by natural biases, misconceptions and inertia. The authors suggest that these behaviours are simply …
