Theatre Review – Julius Caesar
In the third and final part of The Humm Handbook: Lifting Your Level of Emotional Intelligence I make use of an idea developed by my tutor at the London Business School, Charles Handy. Charles thought that the problem with most MBA business case studies is that they dated very quickly. Instead, he organised an MBA elective studying the leadership lessons from the great plays of the Western Canon. It was one of the best University courses that I have ever done. So in the book as a ho.....
Read MoreBook Review – Hamlet’s Blackberry
As readers of Te Humm Handbook: Lifting your Level of Emotional Intelligence are aware one of the five plays I analyse using the Humm profiling system is Shakespeare’s Hamlet. So every time I see a book with Hamlet in the title I am curious. So as I am dropping off some clothes to the local St. Vincent’s when I see Hamlet’s Blackberry in a carton of books so I ‘borrow’ it. William Powers is the author; the book was published in 2010 and as the t.....
Read MoreBook Review: The Meaning of Madness: A Critical Guide to Mental Health and Illness by Neel Burton
I came upon this book quite by chance. I had been sent a recommendation by Amazon for his book Heaven and Hell: The Psychology of the Emotions. When I started doing some research, I discovered that it was the third book of five in a series called Ataraxia. This is a Greek term I had never heard of but means ‘lack of disturbance or trouble’. Now some readers may know that I promote as a people-profiling tool, the 7MTF. This tool is based on the Humm-Wadsworth system which turn .....
Read MoreBook Review: What Really Happened in Wuhan
This is the Australian book for 2021. Author Shelly Markson has produced a comprehensive, well-researched work of journalism. She presents the case that COVID-19 was not caused by zoonosis but was a genetically modified virus that escaped from a lab in Wuhan. She does not categorically say it was a lab accident but presents a lot of circumstantial evidence that it was. Read it if you enjoy seeing all sides of an issue. This book is not pro-Trump, indeed he does not come out well in t.....
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Peter Morris, Executive Officer, Lomax Financial Group
Your presentation on 'Lifting your Level of Emotional Intelligence" to 10 CEOs scored an average 8.9 out of 10 for the topic and 8.5 for the presentation which is great. A couple of the attendees gave you a 10 out of 10, and the comments were:
- Great presentation. Very informative.
- Excellent presentation.
- made me think.
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