Boudica Marginalia

Reading, writing, and other things

Category: Non-fiction: Management

  • Gravitas

    I have always thought of gravitas as a quality; something a person has or doesn’t, that either comes naturally or develops through life experience. On examination my reasoning for that…


  • Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence

    Focus by Daniel Goleman is about awareness. There are three levels of awareness and if you can master each and master switching between them appropriately then excellence will be yours.…


  • Getting Things Done

    I love this book: Getting Things Done: How to achieve stress-free productivity by David Allen. The review will be long. The TLDR version is: This book will help you organise…


  • First, Break all the Rules

    I have a sort-of-new job at work and so I have had a spate of reading business books. First, Break all the Rules by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman is…


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