Ideas we keep going back to

• The 7 habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey (published by Simon & Schuster)

• How to Make Work Fun – by David Firth (Gower)

• Exploring Corporate Strategy – Gerry Johnson and Kevan Scoles (Prentice Hall)

• Exploring Strategic Change – Julia Balogun, Veronica Hope-Hailey, Gerry Johnson & Kevan Scholes (Prentice Hal)l
   
• Managing Successful Programmes - The Stationery Office
   
• Career Anchors - Discovering Your Real Values – Edgar H Schein (Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer )

• Your Personality and the Spiritual Life – Reginald Johnson (Victor Books )

• The Bible
  Whatever your beliefs, it's worth taking note of what is arguably the most wide-ranging strategic change in the history of the world - certainly one of the most pervasive, affecting some billions of people two thousand years on - initiated in a tiny subjugated province of the then all-powerful Roman Empire by one person with zero budget who recruited a team of 12 and worked publicly on the change programme for just 3 years.

• "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference" - The Serenity Prayer
   
• The following words from Polonius

Give thy thoughts no tongue,
Nor any unproportion’d thought his act.
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar:
The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new hatch’d unfledg’d comrade. Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel; but, being in,
Bear’t, that the opposed may beware of thee.
Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice.
Take each man’s censure, but reserve thy judgement.
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not express’d in fancy: rich, not gaudy:
For the apparel oft proclaims the man;
And they in France, of the best rank and station,
Are most select and generous, chief in that.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all, - to thine own self be true;
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Farewell; my blessing season this in thee!

(Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 3)