Book Review – Stop Talking Start Doing by Shaa Wasmund

There are plenty of books telling you how to start a business. All have their particular unique selling points, but the assumption that they all make is that you as a prospective business owner possess certain qualities. You are expected to be positive and motivated, which is not possible all of the time. Sometimes a new entrepreneur feels sluggish and demotivated; not sure about what direction to take next.

Book Review – How to prosper without being top of the class by Cynthia Kocialski

The story goes that Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister and wartime leader rose to the top despite having no formal qualifications at all. This was not a good move on my part when talking to my parents about what I wanted to do with my life and how school didn’t matter. It was a good line nevertheless, but it failed to recognise that his family had money and connections that no doubt assisted him on his way. But it doesn’t account for the fact that there was a time prior to 1940, when he became Prime Minister, that he was a nobody politically. He’d been to war himself, but his overall perception was that of someone who wasn’t likely to achieve the highest office in the land. That he did, is almost as amazing as the subsequent story of his career and his inspirational lead of Britain during some of its darkest days.

Book Review – Play Your Brain by Annette Prehn and Kjeld Fredens

In the perpetual struggle between the Head and the Heart, there has always been a challenge in making the two combine. You have the cold, clinical, analytical Head against the warm, fuzzy and imprecise Heart. Music has often been seen as a bridge to the two, combining the scientific study of frequencies, harmonics and chords, with the ephemeral beauty of a piece of music that enables you to say what you want in a form that you can’t understand.

Book Review – Do it or Ditch it! by Bev James

How many ideas do you have every day? One, Two? or more than that? And how many actually become things that you get around to doing anything about? I suspect that most new business ideas stay in the head of the entrepreneur who thought of them, never to be unleashed on the marketplace.

Book Review – The Key to Business and Personal Success by Martyn Pentecost

This book is not like any other business or personal development book you will read. Traditional books of this type tend to give a synopsis of the problem, and then a prescribed process to make the particular area work for you. This can make what you do seem a cold and hard place where only numbers and product matter, and where the truth can be far from this view.