W. Chan Kim: Blue Ocean Strategy:
How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant. Think Google, Cisco, i-pod, Swatch...
Jonah Lehrer: How We Decide
A must read for all good people trying to market to savvy consumers...
Adam Smith: The Wealth of Nations (Bantam Classics)
Adam Smith and the Origins of American Enterprise: How the Founding Fathers Turned to a Great Economist's Writings and Created the American Economy and we know what happened to it. Benchmarking extraordinaire. As a good reminder of the philosphy of economics, read it on the train...
Karl Marx: Das Kapital
"The wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails, presents itself as "an immense accumulation of commodities"... Sometimes there is no better place than to go back to the basic principles and compare notes with where we all ended it up and how the triggers to a post credit-crunch economy may develop...a must on once bedside table
Richard Stutely: The Definitive Business Plan: The fast track to intelligent business planning for executives and entrepreneurs (2nd Edition) (Financial Times Series)
Essential tool for any business leader in planning mode! Brilliantly written by Richard Stutely having gained experience as an investment banker, general manager, managing director for a technology company and his experience at the Treasury provides a robust and rounded insight to business planning on the grandest of scales. I could not do business without it!
Lewis Grassic Gibbon: Sunset Song (Penguin Classics)
I read this book when we had just moved to Edinburgh. It captured my heart and made Scottish literature something awe inspiring I'd never felt before. We moved to Aberdeenshire near to Angus and Grassic Gibbon's country. I felt that I had already seen it all through his eyes even before I came there. And he didn't let me down, au contraire, I saw the mountains and the big sky and the sea and it was just as majestic as the book described. Romance and nature of highest calibre possible. I love.
Jennie Erdal: Ghosting: A Memoir
Beautifully written this sad and funny story about a relationship that was never entirely fully disclosed but essential for two people's career in the world of writing. Jennie Erdal deserves standing ovation for this novel. I love!
William Boyd: Any Human Heart
A page turner perfect for dark midwinter subzero evenings by the fire. Robust prose, great characters and a yarn that spins around half the globe. William Boyd is one of THE authors of modern English litterature. I think!
Annie Leibovitz: Annie Leibovitz at Work
An illuminating and revealing insight into how these photographs came to be, with text written by Leibovitz herself.
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Expect Obama-mania in the media over the next couple of days as Inauguration Day approaches – ‘the nearest America will come to a coronation,’ as one wag has put it. In tomorrow’s GuardianG2 section will feature excerpts from a selection of speeches by Almost President Obama.
I don't know about you but I can't wait! In the meantime we can look at the pictures...
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