‘Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.’

Harry S. Truman

What are we reading and writing?

We read broadly and across disciplines, media and topics, always on the lookout for patterns in what writers are thinking and researching. What we learn from reading, influences our work and writing. We share here some of what we read and write in the hope that it may be useful to others. Click these links to see a collection of recent and archived publications. Some are project resources and reports, others commentaries, published papers and case stories.  

What we are reading (summer of '12)

'Inside Steve's Brain' by Leander Kahney (2008)
'Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen' by Christopher McDougall
'Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)' by Tom Vanderbilt
'Adapt: why success always startes with failure" by Tim Harford
'Getting to Maybe: How the World Is Changed' by Frances Westley, Brenda Zimmerman and Michael Patton 

What we are writing

Transform - a regular communique for those active in promoting the well being of babies in New Zealand
Report of a study of internet images of sleeping babies and their adherence to safe sleep recommendations
Review of sudden infant death prevention in New Zealand over 25 years