Books & recommendations

15 Jul 2021 How to Lie with Statistics - Books I recommend 7 LinkedIn Recommends Darrell Huff's sixty-year-old classic How to Lie with Statistics — changing scales, selective figures, dodgy axes — as still relevant and worthy of every school maths syllabus.

14 Jul 2021 Freakonomics - Books I recommend 6 LinkedIn Recommends Levitt and Dubner's Freakonomics and its sequels as light-hearted popular economics, singling out the drug-dealer accounts and exam-cheating stories.

13 Jul 2021 Team of Teams - Books I recommend 5 LinkedIn Recommends Stanley McChrystal's Team of Teams, drawing lessons for NHS provider collaboratives on devolved leadership and cross-posting staff between rival units.

11 Jul 2021 Nudge - Books I recommend 4 LinkedIn Recommends Thaler and Sunstein's Nudge and its account of how small unconscious prompts can shift behaviour, plus the follow-up book on the government's nudge unit.

11 Jul 2021 Nudge – Books I recommend 4 ' LinkedIn Recommends the book Nudge on shaping behaviour through small cues, plus a companion book on the government's nudge unit.

10 Jul 2021 The Lean Startup - Books I recommend 3 LinkedIn Recommends Eric Ries's The Lean Startup and its concepts of minimum viable products, split testing and pivoting as essential reading for any would-be entrepreneur.

9 Jul 2021 Crossing the Chasm - Books I recommend 2 LinkedIn Recommends Geoffrey Moore's 'Crossing the Chasm' to health-tech startups: getting 200 GP practices to test a product is very different from getting the other 6,800 to buy it.

8 Jul 2021 Books I recommend 1 LinkedIn Opens a series of book recommendations with Genius, James Gleick's biography of Richard Feynman — a book that nearly made him swap medicine for physics — plus Feynman's own memoirs.

3 May 2018 Nudge Theory and Prescriptions Proposes printing drug costs, indications and cheaper-alternative prompts on prescriptions, applying nudge theory from electricity bills to cut NHS medicines spending.

3 May 2018 At the moment is a huge amount of time and trouble is gone to trying to switch patients… LinkedIn Suggests using nudge theory and showing patients drug costs to prompt switches to cheaper medication rather than chasing them.

2 Sept 2009 How CfH could make my Day Applies 'nudge' theory to NHS Connecting for Health, arguing single sign-on and a unified master inbox for a GP's dozen message streams would win over users better than mandates.

17 Oct 2007 Book review: Belbin's team roles GP magazine Reviews Meredith Belbin's books on the nine roles in a team and describes how the partners of two merging surgeries used the questionnaire to check their mix.

27 Sept 2007 Book review: Inspirational Leadership - Henry V and the Muse of Fire GP magazine A review of Richard Olivier's leadership book based on Henry V, drawing lessons on critics, traitors and leadership types from the play.

4 Apr 2007 Book review: Leadership and the One Minute Manager GP magazine Reviews Ken Blanchard's book on situational leadership and how matching management style to staff competence and commitment changes the way you delegate.