“The Checklist Manifesto” is a game-changing book
What is it about? The author’s key message is that the volume and complexity of knowledge today has exceeded …
Category Archives: Books I like
A review of “The Reckoning” by Jacob Soll
I have just read “The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the making and breaking of nations” by Jacob Soll. This is …
A review of Reformation Europe’s House Divided
I am a physicist by training and inclination and as the biologist Hans Zinsser noted in “Rats, Lice and History“, …
On national destinies
I am reading Peter Hopkirk’s “The Great Game” a brilliant book about the Russia’s conquest of the Near East and …
For twisted minds – Two Girls, One on each knee
The best book about cryptic crosswords ever written. (Full disclosure: Alan is my cousin) If you’ve ever had even a …
Books on innovation
Continuing my theme of useful books. Here a couple of very valuable books about managing innovation. The Lean Start-up Business …
Excellent book on management theories
I am presently doing research for a book that I am going to write called “How to be a Middle …
Books about “Requirements Management”
In the frothy drive to all things “agile” formal requirements management is often forgotten. Requirements management is core to the …
