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organisational success. All of us, not just creatives and experts, have the ability to come up with ideas. Some ideas are the product of our lively imagination. Most successful ideas come from the powerful connections we make between new thoughts, 'inspirations', knowledge and experience.Wethey gives tips on using your ‘Idea Brain’ to come up with valuable ideas that can be developed with colleagues and in teams. Wethey claims that ideas are the source of all progress, growth and change, and he places them at the centre of their own ecosystem, which he calls 'Idea Economics'. In The Very Idea you will find numerous examples of the maths we can use to make ideas more valuable, and behind the scenes stories about ideas that really changed the game.

Crying In a Foreign Language: Poems By Oliver Bilgutay (Segar’s, 2017-2022)

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Oliver says of this debut book of poems: ‘I wrote this book by accident. I never intended to publish it. Originally the poems were written for my eyes only. Over time, however, the number of poems increased and with it my realisation that I may actually have something to say. In your teenage years everything is a contradiction, and you are constantly flicking through every emotion of which you are capable.Thus, I wanted to capture that same essence of doubt, uncertainty, loneliness and impermanence through this book with the hope of it making those that read it slightly less alone.The title Crying in a Foreign Language is an allusion to the aforementioned reality of the current, my, generation as well as an ode, a message to everyone who, like myself, is of mixed heritage.The feeling of always being the foreigner is a pervasive one. I hope that the readers of this book enjoy it as much as I enjoyed writing it. But most of all I hope anyone who reads it finds strength in its pervasiveness and thus in shared experience.’ The poems explore a range of different topics, such as grief, love, inadequacy, and heartbreak.With cultural references to the poet’s Turkish heritage and a use of Mediterranean imagery this collection aims to explore the extents of human emotion and the notion that within all good there is bad and within all bad there is good.

DavidWethey reflects: ‘ What inspired me to write business and life books? Quite simply the Debating Society at Teddies!’

Reading Medicine in Twentieth Century England

Dr Richard Li Chi Kay (Apsley, 1967-1972)

Within a week of going to Cambridge to read Medicine, Kay switched to the less arduous

Natural Sciences course.Thus began an odyssey of marches and sit-ins before he reattached himself to Medicine.The first part of his memoir tells his passage from schooling in Hong Kong and England, through the transformative gap year, to undergraduate life at Churchill College, Cambridge. The second part recounts his early experience in hospitals mentioning, among others, Guy’s in London, Addenbrooke’s in Cambridge, Queen Mary in Hong Kong, Beth Israel in Boston, and Freeman Hospital in Newcastle as well as time spent in a refugee camp for Vietnamese boat people in Hong Kong. About the Author Dr Richard Kay studied Medicine at Cambridge University and Guy’s Hospital Medical School, qualifying as a doctor in 1976. After a succession of junior appointments, he became Chief of Neurology at the Prince of Wales Hospital in Hong Kong. His research interests include the application of evoked potentials and the treatment of stroke. He was Editor-in Chief of the Hong Kong Medical Journal (2004-9) and is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, London, and the Academy of Medicine, Singapore. He lives with his wife Janice in Hong Kong.

Available to buy at: www.amazon.co.uk

The Very Idea: Unlocking the Power of Idea Economics

By DavidWethey (Apsley, 1957-1962 and Past President of the OSE Society)

In The Very Idea leading business author and creative guru David Wethey is critical of how so many workplaces suppress creativity, and do little to stimulate and incentivise idea generation and invention.That urgently needs to change with the

‘Future of Jobs’ report saying that the three most important individual skills are now complex problem solving, critical thinking and creativity. Wethey shows how to stimulate idea generation and harness the power of those ideas for both individual and

Available as an eBook and paperback at: www.amazon.com and www.KayLiChiBook.com

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