Like many, we are constantly curious – hungry for ideas – news ways of looking at the world, business and ourselves.

Here are some books we would highly recommend:

• Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne – a really refreshing look at how to re-invent your business and move beyond your competitors
   
• Good to Great / Build to last by Jim Collins – a bit like the Star Wars trilogy then prequels – well researched, good insights, simple frameworks
   
• A perfect thing by Stephen Levy – the story of the iPod and how it transformed [ailing] Apple – written by a tech-journo with excellent contacts/connections with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates
   
• Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner – this text just shows what can be done with the power of regression analysis
   
• The World Is Flat: The Globalized World in the Twenty-first Century by Thomas Friedman – a must for anyone who wants a quick insight into global trends – [get your kids focusing on maths and science]