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BOOKS YOU MIGHT WANT TO READ
09 April 2019
Philip K Dick’s great book The Man in the High Castle...
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RECYCLE THE 10 GREATEST BUSINESS IDEAS OF ALL TIME
26 March 2019
f you want to succeed, don’t innovate. Imitate.
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THE BEST SCIENCE FICTION EVER?
12 March 2019
One of the best science fiction books ever
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TEN COMMANDMENTS FOR STUDENTS
26 February 2019
Here are my Ten Commandments...
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IN PRAISE OF REVOLUTIONARY CONSERVATISM
12 February 2019
But two things impressed me above all...
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THE FALLACY OF LOYALTY
23 January 2019
The idea that you should be loyal to a corporation and it should be loyal to you – is a lie...
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TOWARDS THE POST-PROTESTANT WORK ETHIC
08 January 2019
Can we get beyond the Protestant work ethic...
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IN PRAISE OF INACTION
11 December 2018
Value-Added versus Value-Subtracted
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KOCH & PETERSON ON FRIENDS
27 November 2018
Without relationships we are either dead to the world – or dead
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LIBERATE YOURSELF FROM THE PROTESTANT WORK ETHIC
13 November 2018
What do you detest? There will be many different answers from you all. But I bet that none of you have this rather eccentric answer of mine – I detest the Protestant work ethic.
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SAINTS ANCIENT & MODERN
30 October 2018
In researching my next book, I’ve taken nineteen people, some dead, some alive, who were in my opinion, “unreasonably successful”
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SKIN IN THE GAME: A DOZEN ACTION IMPERATIVES
16 October 2018
I am a somewhat reluctant fan of Nicholas Nassim Taleb, and having finished his latest book, Skin in the Game, I settled down to write a review.
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WHY THE WEST IS DIFFERENT, BUT CAN UNITE THE WORLD IN PROSPERITY
04 October 2018
Anthropologist Richard Shweder explains that there is a fundamental difference between Western and non-Western concepts of morality.
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THE CHAINS OF FREEDOM
18 September 2018
There is a tendency to believe that individualism is the product of the last century
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THE STAR PRINCIPLE – SIMPLIFIED
04 September 2018
What will make you successful? What will make you rich? Preposterous as it sounds, there is a magic formula.
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THE 80/20 OF 80/20
21 August 2018
This time I’m going to give the essence – if you like, the 80/20 – of 80/20
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SIMPLIFY SIMPLIFIED
07 August 2018
There are two reliable strategies for successful simplifying to create a very attractive star business
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THE BRUTAL SIMPLICITY QUIZ
24 July 2018
This week I was reviewing some of the simplest and most useful breakthroughs in business thinking...
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AMAZON & AIRBNB – CONTRASTING ATTITUDES TO CUSTOMERS
10 July 2018
Amazon has always had exceptional aspirations about customers, which marks it out from that of ninety-nine percent of companies
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TO KNOW WHAT YOU THINK, LOOK AT WHAT YOU DO!
26 June 2018
Jordon B Peterson’s tome 12 Rules for Life. It wasn’t what I expected.
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IN PRAISE OF OUR LIMITATIONS
12 June 2018
I was struck this week by the juxtaposition of two quotations which are more profound than they appear.
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THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MARGARET
29 May 2018
Memoirs by politicians usually send me to sleep. Imagine my surprise in finding an exception...
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THE 80/20 WAY TO READ A NON-FICTION BOOK
15 May 2018
My tutor at Oxford used to set me weekly essays and give a long reading list of books and articles.
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A NEW WAY TO GET RICH
01 May 2018
Rarely it is true that there is a reliable new way to get rich. Perhaps once in a hundred or two hundred years.
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THE TRIUMPH OF THE STRATEGY PARADIGM
17 April 2018
The difference between business today and as it was in the 1960s is immense and the difference is the strategy paradigm.
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