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December 2008

For a Life Around the Corner

Hello

Welcome to the December Predaptive newsletter. This month we review Malcolm Gladwell's latest book Outliers. We look at a number of situations where people have turned lemons into lemonade. And finally we review the hit game Agricola.

Best Wishes
The Predaptive Team

This Month's Features

Outliers

Success Is Understandable, Perhaps Even Predictable. >>

Christmas has come early with a book to read and review, Malcolm Gladwell’s latest Outliers. This is his third book (after The Tipping Point and Blink) where again he does his unique mash up of Social Anthropology, Economics, Demographics and poking about with under analysed trends. More...

Lemonade

Making Lemonade >>

The economic downturn has begun to define business conversations, with people listing concerns and stories of misfortune. Yet in recent weeks we’re hearing more from some of our customers about how they are changing their approach for the better. More...

Agrigola

What We're Playing >>

Agricola was a big hit in 2008, surprising perhaps for a game that places each player as a farming couple somewhere in Central Europe in the Middle Ages. This may not seem relevant to your current organisational dilemmas but there’s plenty going on that can help people to think about how they best manage under tough circumstances. More...

Headlines

Reading Room

Where you will you'll find a selection of the books, games and other interesting things we've reviewed recently Go >>

If you've got a book you would like us to review email lynnj@predaptive.com.

Catalytic Intervention

Hear what we've got to say in our new Blog >>

To find out more about the topics in this newsletter, or to talk through the learning and development issues you are facing, please give us a call.

Claudine McClean
The Predaptive Team

E: claudinem@predaptive.com
T: +44 (0) 1789 734333

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