From what I’ve read so far, it addresses corporate planning issues, rather than personal planning. (Though I may change my mind as I make my way through more of it.)

For personal productivity, I would instead recommend any of the following
*) The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People – by Stephen Covey
*) On Form: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance, Health and Happiness – by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz
*) The Happiness Hypothesis: Putting Ancient Wisdom to the Test of Modern Science – by Jonathan Haidt
*) Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure – by Tim Harford
*) Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The difference and why it matters – by Richard Rumelt
*) Willpower: Rediscovering Our Greatest Strength – by Roy F. Baumeister and John Tierney
*) Switch: How to change things when change is hard – by Chip & Dan Heath
*) The happiness advantage: The seven principles of positive psychology that fuel success and performance at work – by Shawn Achor

(I’ve reviewed most of these in previous blogposts)

One of the biggest success stories emerging from the mess of IT medicine in the PACS – a standard data/storage protocol for storing radiographical information. Rather than define an implementation, or primary supplier – ct scans and xrays can be exchanged between systems and viewed remotely on a variety of different clients. It’s use is now ubiquitous in UK hospitals (and I think worldwide) with healthcare provides free to procure their own PACS servers and client software so long as they are compliant.
I’ve used the phenomenal and free ‘OsiriX’ on the desktop mac which can view radiology teaching files, however the iPad version is not yet FDA(food and drug administration) approved
http://medgadget.com/2011/03/osirix_hd_now_available_for_ipad.html and approval cost a lot of money.

Anyone could create a radiology viewer for android, however it cost money to get FDA approval and I would target the iPad fist as there is a lot of inertia and frankly ‘cool’ behind the device.

I have my BA in Physics with Honors from Harvard, and spent 4 years working on my PhD in Astrophysics at UCSD, so I have a lot of experience evaluating scientific information. I have read Dean Radin closely, and his arguments and, especially, his meta analysis of billions of pieces of data from thousands of studies (and his clear explanation of the “file drawer” problem,) and I am more convinced than not that there is something going on. The effects are subtle, but robust, given the huge amount of data he has assembled. If you have the energy, I would read his two popular books closely. They are worth the time.

I don’t really believe that there is necessarily a “paranormal” explanation for these effects, however. I think they will eventually be explained in terms of known or currently unknown physics. For example, something like entanglement might account for certain of these effects.

=Greg

Re Dean Radin: Someone I respect a lot pointed me in his direction a year or two back, and I did some quick reading, finding myself in general agreement with critical articles such as “What if Dean Radin is right?” by Robert Todd Carroll.

I confess I haven’t looked closely at Dean Radin’s work, but my reason for this is that, while I was a postgraduate student, I spent huge amounts of time looking at what was then regarded as the best evidence supporting the existence of the paranormal. (This coincided with the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Society for Psychical Research, and many good books were published to mark the occasion.) Time and again I was initially confident that such-and-such a piece of research demonstrated conclusively the reality of paranormal effects, only for subsequent investigation to undermine that view. Over time, I switched from “tending to believe in the paranormal” to being much more sceptical.