Nicholas Bate: Being the Best: The AZ of Personal Success: The A-Z of Personal Success
Nicholas Bate: JFDI: The Definitive Guide To Realising Your Dreams
Nicholas Bate: Have It Your Way: 52 brilliant ideas for getting everything you want
Nicholas Bate: Beat the 2008 Recession: A Blueprint for Business Survival
Thanks to some great teams this week Firstly M&S: those action plans should be humming by now. And Microsoft Thurs+Fri: well done especially to the gentleman with the cool hair-cut who decided (and took action) to give up smoking. Work those action plans now!
To the great teams from IBM at Warwick University this week-end. Work those actions plans guys!
Hugh wrote a fantastic document called How To Be Creative. It's free and available via his post here. The additional good news is that Hugh's going to up-date it and make it even better and it'll be out as a book. But don't wait: read the original now and you can revise with the new book in six months or so.
..we all know we should count sheep-but where do you get the sheep to count? Try here.
..on fire here.
Remind yourself here.
To the amazing global team who assembled in Santa Monica, California this week. Work those action plans and you guys will be unstoppable. And, Alexis: get well soon!
To the great team from Germany and NL that I was working with last week in Munich: you did a fantastic effort guys-now work that action plan!
I had four minutes on Radio 4's PM programme last night where I was (respectfully) grilled on Beat the Recession 2008. On the question of 'surely we are not in a recession?', my response is (1) quantitatively maybe not, but qualitatively definitely yes (2) why wait until it's too late to do domething about it? and (3) our leaders will do their damndest to deny it: of course. Preparing for recession is simply making your business more effective.
Changethis.com has another great selection of manifestos to stir up your thinking. I think you will particulary enjoy 10.5 ways to stimulate your visual thinking.
