It’s in everyone’s background This is a review for non-athletes – I expect every runner has already heard of Christopher McDougall’s Born To Run – A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen. But if you happen to be a runner who hasn’t had the chance to take it in, you’ll [...]

Seth Godin’s appeal to take your future into your own hands Perhaps the tag line of Seth Godin’s book Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? didn’t connect with me – I already think I’m indispensable, so why would I want to read about that? The book however is much more than that single thread. I’m glad it [...]

Malcolm Gladwell’s look into the wildly successful I continue to enjoy books by Malcolm Gladwell.  The latest I’ve read (or more precisely heard) being “Outliers: The Story of Success“. Before I had a chance to get this material first hand though, I listened to a friend review the book for a networking group. And as [...]

What small factors separate an incident from an outbreak? Malcolm Gladwell’s book “The Tipping Point; How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference” made it to my list after I found “Blink” such a nice read.  Actually “Outliers” is on there as well, but I found this title on a library shelf first;-) In it, [...]