The Secret of Achieving More With Less

Posted by on Jan 10, 2008 in personal development | 0 comments

Richard Koch, The 80/20 Principle: The Secret of Achieving More With Less, Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2006 Usually, any book with the word ‘secret’ in its title should be shunned. Not so here. This unique work blends economic description with self-help prescription in a wide-ranging and creative way. You may have heard of the Pereto Principle – also nicknamed The Principle of Least...

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Discover the Truth About the Opposite Sex

Posted by on Nov 26, 2007 in communication, gender, learning | 2 comments

The Essential Difference, Simon Baron-Cohen, Penguin Books, 2004 The sub-title blurb of this seminal book is ‘Forget Mars and Venus, and Discover the Truth About the Opposite Sex’. Baron-Cohen, professor of psychology and psychiatry at Cambridge University, goes out of his way to distance his book from its famous predecessor (John Gray, Men are From Mars, Women are From Venus). This...

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Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future

Posted by on Nov 8, 2007 in business | 0 comments

The title of this blog is taken from Daniel H Pink’s book, This book is a rarity. A self-development type book with real business conclusions. Wide-ranging trend analysis coupled with detailed guidance about what to do. The book assumes that our brains work with two hemispheres – the rhythmic right and the logical left. Pink’s central premise is that the good old jobs of the past...

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