A good book for Christmas

12/12/2018

A friend wrote a very good historical mystery book. It is a bit like the Da Vinci code but set …

“The Checklist Manifesto” is a game-changing book

19/12/2016

What is it about? The author’s key message is that the volume and complexity of knowledge today has exceeded …

17/04/2016

I have just read “The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the making and breaking of nations” by Jacob Soll. This is …

24/03/2016

I am a physicist by training and inclination and as the biologist Hans Zinsser noted in “Rats, Lice and History“, …

21/06/2014

I am reading Peter Hopkirk’s “The Great Game” a brilliant book about the Russia’s conquest of the Near East and …

15/01/2014

The best book about cryptic crosswords ever written. (Full disclosure: Alan is my cousin) If you’ve ever had even a …

12/01/2014

Continuing my theme of useful books. Here a couple of very valuable books about managing innovation. The Lean Start-up Business …

09/01/2014

I am presently doing research for a book that I am going to write called “How to be a Middle …

06/01/2014

In the frothy drive to all things “agile” formal requirements management is often forgotten. Requirements management is core to the …