The Infinite Ideas blog

We write on a variety of subjects and often post exclusive ideas by our bestselling authors. We publish a diverse list and our blog reflects this so if you don’t find a post that interests you today check back later in the week and you’ll probably find something that takes your fancy. Happy reading.

Walter White: father, teacher, small business owner

21 July 2014 by in Business and finance, Entertainment

It’s coming up to a year since I signed up to Netflix, intending to terminate my subscription after the free trial had finished. Walter White, however, had other ideas for me. Vince Gilligan’s series, Breaking Bad, had not concluded and so I was stuck with Netflix until it had. Twelve months on, I’m still paying! …
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Sherry Baby!

18 July 2014 by in Wine and spirits

We at Infinite Ideas are very excited today! The manuscript for Julian Jeffs’ sixth edition of the ultimate Sherry guide has arrived and will be ready for publication in November. Here’s a little something to whet your appetites: A sickly old-fashioned drink fit only for the plughole, or one of the world’s best value and underrated drinks? …
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A Day in the Life of a Book on the Underground

17 July 2014 by in 5742 Days, Book publishing, Entertainment

This morning I started my day at Dalston Junction. The weather was so lovely and hot I wanted to stay overground for as long as I could. I’ve got my lovely new sticker on my front so that people don’t throw me away. It says, ‘Pick me!’, ‘Read me!’. I could be their new favourite …
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Top 10 management models for your business: #4 Blue Ocean Strategy

16 July 2014 by in 100+ Management Models, Business and finance

by Fons Trompenaars and Piet Hein Coebergh, co-authors of 100+ Management Models. Problem Statement How can we create a long-term plan for sustained competitive advantage by focusing on new markets, without focusing on competition? Essence Kim and Mauborgne developed their Blue Ocean strategy in 2005, building on earlier publications that also explored the insight that an organization …
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RoboFuture? Ten questions about machine intelligence

11 July 2014 by in Business and finance, Codebreaking our future

by Michael Lee, author of Codebreaking our future [Originally published as a blog on the World Future Society website] Ever since HG Wells wrote The War of the Worlds in 1897, various works of science fiction have speculated about the take-over of humanity by advanced robots or machines. Inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil has gone several …
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Tackling the rising rates of obesity from your desk

9 July 2014 by in Lifestyle

There have been plenty of warnings in the past few years about the rise in obesity in the world but are we really considering the financial costs to ourselves? Never mind the extra expense of a family bag of fun-size Mars bars, how much will treating the effects of obesity really cost you? Alarming statistics …
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