By Denis Campbell
If you’re stuck for something, you know amazon can deliver the right gift in 48-hours in time for Christmas. There are three books out there that are must reads this holiday season – Outliers, The Snowball and Angler. 
Outliers was written by Malcom Gladwell. Gladwell first emerged on the scene a few years back [...]

by David Iglesias

Publisher’s synopsis – “The Bush administration’s drive to politicize the Justice Department reached a new low with the wrongful firing of seven U.S. Attorneys in late 2006. Their action has ignited public outrage on a scale that far surpassed the reaction to any of the Bush administration’s other political debacles. David Iglesias was [...]

by Arianna Huffington, Editor-in-Chief, Huffington Post
I’m a Huffington fan. I read the Huffington Post daily, find her commentators on the cutting edge. She and they are articulate and asking the right questions. Most did not give her much of a chance three years ago and thanks to her, Keith Olbermann on MSNBC and Air America [...]

 by Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones
In this book Goffee and Jones succesfully give an insight into organisation’s different cultures by using a simple model. According to Goffee and Jones the key factors that dominate organisational cultures are sociability and solidarity.
They come down to 4 basic coporate cultures:

The accuracy with which these reflect the reality of true [...]

      (Reprise article)
Swedish academics Jonas Ridderstrale and Kjell Nordstrom are back with their latest Funky Business Forever. This is the newest companion to their two seminal business change tomes “Funky Business” and “Karaoke Capitalism” dedicated to getting business leaders to think outside the box and, indeed, to throw the box away. Now comes a [...]

by Ron Suskind
From Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and bestselling author Ron Suskind comes a startling look at how America lost its way and at the nation’s struggle, day by day, to reclaim the moral authority upon which its survival depends. From the White House to Downing Street, from the fault-line countries of South Asia to [...]

 Sicko by Academy Award Winning documentary film-maker Michael Moore, is a brilliant look at the broken US Healthcare industry. While many countries have adopted a health system to help care for its population, the USA has 1/6th of its population suffering from no insurance coverage and those with insurance through Health Maintenance Organisations or HMO’s are often denied [...]

Starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman
Directed by Rob Reiner
From Warner Brothers Pictures

Every so often the perfect vehicle comes along for the actors, director and audience. “The Bucket List” directed beautifully by Rob Reiner, is one such vehicle bringing together bad boy, Oscar winning actor Jack Nicholson together with strong and soft-spoken legend Morgan Freeman who [...]

by Daniel Gilbert
You may think you know what makes you happy and… you are probably wrong!  This book is a great read especially if you ever worked hard to satisfy your future self, only to find out that it didn’t bring the future you the happiness intended. Apparantly the mistakes we make when we try [...]