Today, I finished reading the attributes by Rich Diviney. It’s a fascinating book, full of interesting insights and enlightening commentary on the human psyche, behaviour and interactions. It sets out 25 human attributes critical for optimum performance, grouped under...
My writing days are Saturday and Sunday. You'll have probably already spotted that Knowing Self Knowing Others is my side hustle so blogging, podcasting and writing has to fit around cooking, shopping and working! Saturday 10th June was an excellent writing day when...
This book gave me feedback that I didn’t know I needed to hear. It took me on a journey of despair, embarrassment, inadequacy, enlightenment, learning and improvement. It was quite the journey At one point I couldn’t articulate my response to it, all I could do was...
This book is both amazing and exhausting. I read it whilst lying on a sun lounger next to a pool when I was on holiday and I still felt like I needed a lie down. The concepts keep coming. Page after page there's a new insight, a new definition, and a new model to get...
This is definitely not the book I expected it to be. Having read a few books over the last year I have become accustomed to business books being set out more like a story with a journey taking you from start, to middle, to the end. But this book isn’t like that. It’s...
For Christmas and birthday this year I decided that I wanted books. Real, hold-in-the-hand, flick-a-page, smell-the-paper books. In the end I bought 18 brilliant business books and here’s my review of the very first one I’ve read in 2023…. ‘Mindset - Changing the way...
I’ve recently finished this incredibly interesting book. I was drawn to it because of its focus on #selfawareness, of course, but it wasn’t at all written from the perspective I expected! This book talks about the neurology of #selfawareness - literally, what happens...
It’s the last Friday of January and here’s my very first book review of 2021 1. What are your take-homes? I agree with Brené Brown ; this book gives you language to describe thoughts that have tumbled around your brain for a long time. I like how it describes the...
You are what you read. That’s what an email from Harvard Business Review told me today. And I agree. We’ve discovered that what we read online feeds what is shown to us online, due to the clever algorithms employed behind the scenes. It makes it doubly important that we research broadly, read widely and think holistically……….