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I am really enjoying this book. Some crazy entertaining parts to it and some appalling stories too. The pace is slower than I would prefer but as human dramas go, narrated by child, it's pretty special.

I am really enjoying this audio book. Jennifer Ehle reads it beautifully, and the old English is delightful. It is slow going, but lovely in audio.

So I am officially giving up on this book. The most irritating business book I have ever come across. 'Pretentious' is putting it lightly. Time to write my review.

Just started this audio book today and not sure i will last too long on it unless it loses the egotism, in the first few minutes all i remember is I, my, mine, I, my, mine...hmmm

I'm one of those people who believes culture eats strategy for breakfast. If the spirit within the organisation is not right everything starts to suffer. "The classic founders trap" ... quite common when the founder generation moves away (from the business). You don't dictate, you relate...dictators always crumble in the end.

19 May 2010. Want to curb the university drop-out rate?...Here's a brilliant idea proposed by a friend: send high school students to university before they finish high school. ...Many university courses, such as psychology, are not dependent on what one knows from school...A strong mentorship programme is critical, and open regular feedback...

It is very difficult to create a connection (with your customers) like this if you simply do what all your competitors are doing. People make friends with individuals not with crowds. Therefore your individuality as a business and a brand must come across strongly.

At that time (80's) South Africa had precious few leaders with any credibility at all. If I was a thought-leader it was only because the situation was vacant.

Building a nation and building a business have more in common than some might think. To become a winning nation South Africa needs to create jobs - millions of them year after year. Only then can we alleviate poverty, generate sustained economic growth and meet the aspirations of our people.

No one is more susceptible to an expert's fearmongering than a parent. Fear is in fact a major component of the act of parenting...The problem is that they are often scared of the wrong things. Separating facts from rumours is always hard work...

An incentive is simply a means of urging people to do more of a good thing and less of a bad thing. There are 3 basic flavours of incentive: economic, social and moral.

Started reading a copy in the ships library while on the Queen Elizabeth cruise in med in October and couldn't finish it, so pleased i found it in the local library at home! Have read all the inspector lynley books, good to burrow into the story again.

Loving this book, it's certainly powerful to read over election time, we voted today in a free SA thanks to Tata Madiba. So many learnings already and i have only reached his varsity days...

so enjoying another good scarpetta thriller, one of the early ones, quote on power re living in Washington in ch 15 is really good

Not my favourite scarpetta novel but better than blow fly, i felt. The older scarpetta thrillers are like comfortable homecomings while these two are almost experimental with new concepts, which is good as times change and so do readers i suppose. I do enjoy the personal storyline about Marino and Lucy, i miss it when it's not there.

I must be tiring of numa after reading a few of this series and finding them all too far-fetched and rather predictable. Usually an environmental issue is tackled and this was no exception with the privatisation of scarce global water resources forming the main storyline. It's time to try some other adventure authors.

Amazing book. I find it hard to believe that this is Jojo Moyes only book about horses, as she has captured the beautiful Boo so well and his special relationship with the young girl. A good storyline and an inspirational read.