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My top three books of 2018

Last year I wrote about how I discovered Audible, how it made it so easy for me to consume books and 2018 has been somewhat crazy for the number of books I’ve read. I’ve read history, fiction, books about emotional intelligence and a few looking at the future. My longest book was 15 hours and the shortest 3 hours. If you say to me you never have time to read a book, think again. Here are my top three books of 2018. What books are your top three? Let me know. Sapiens – A Brief History of Humankind Opening up a controversial topic with spirit and thoroughness,  Sapiens  will challenge your preconceptions, provoke discussion and, most importantly, push you to think for yourself. The  Sunday Times  best seller. Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it. Us. We are the most advanced and most destructive animals ever to have lived. What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us sapiens

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Why you need a Chief Futures Officer and what he would tell you.

Why you need a Chief Futures Officer and what he would tell you. I recently read an interesting article in the Guardian on the importance of having a Chief Futures Officer. After my immediate “What?!” it suddenly dawned on me. What do the disruptors (Netflix, Vimeo, Amazon, Uber) of the world have in common? These companies think forwards, and then even think of so far into the future that I’m probably not even alive in their future vision. They’re thinking about the next big thing, the next piece of technology that will captivate the world. Apple’s rumoured to be looking to developing a car, well that’s years away. Uber probably wants driverless cars. I can’t wait for that. So I started thinking what made Netflix different to other companies who were around when they entered the mainstream. Re-wind a few years and Blockbuster was their biggest competitor at the time, they both let you rent movies, it’s just that Netflix was mail order and Blockbuster was in-store. Then someth