This is the most books I’ve read in a single year since 2006. The fact that it rained all the time, so I was not cutting my commute short in order to walk, is the main driver of this trend. For the first time since 2008, the amount of fiction I have read has declined […]
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Review of books 2012
January 1st, 2013 · Comments Off on Review of books 2012
Categories: book
Tags: books, reading
Review of books 2011
January 1st, 2012 · Comments Off on Review of books 2011
In January of last year, I noticed that I’d only read books by women, and decided to make a project of this for the rest of the year. This turned out to be a good project, for two reasons – firstly, I’d never really thought about how few books by women I read (proportionally), and […]
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Tags: books, reading
Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths And Total Nonsense
January 20th, 2008 · Comments Off on Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths And Total Nonsense
I’ve just finished Robert Sutton and Jeffrey Pfeffer‘s Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths And Total Nonsense. A problem I have with a lot of business books is that they are generally so larded with the message it is okay to be you! that much of the rest is lost. As I’m a data analyst, I was […]
Categories: book · management
Tags: analysis, bob sutton, book review, jeffrey pfeffer, leadership, management