Acknowledgements

Sir Isaac Newton once said, ‘The reason I see so far is because I stand on the tall shoulders of those who came before me’. We at Thinque™ have certainly stood on the tall shoulders of those that have come before us in the creation of this company. Many of the diverse ideas, insights, communications, trends, concepts and solutions that Thinque™ offers will be joined together and presented for the first time. Often ground-breaking discoveries are the results of bringing together ideas that previously seemed unrelated. Many of these ideas have been adapted and adopted from the multitude of teachers on my journey and I am forever thankful for the support, inspiration, guidance and advice you have provided me with. Oliver Wendell Holmes once said, ‘A mind that is stretched to a new idea never returns to its original dimensions’, and if it were not for my teachers, I would not be today where I am now. Equally, I trust that Thinque™ will be able to stretch your minds on your journey from where you are to where you want to be.

Thank you Peter Rudge for opening my eyes, Anthony Robbins for widening my perspective, Dr Tad James for teaching me, Chris Howard for providing a different perspective, and my family for making it all possible.

For this web-site I have adopted and adapted incredibly insightful research, opinions, evidence and data from numerous books, articles, white papers, and studies. I would like to respectfully express my gratitude for the ideas that this research has generated and my sincere appreciation to the authors, professors, journalists, and CEOs who have had the drive to lay these very valuable foundations.

Books:

• Ned Herrmann, The Whole Brain Business Book, 1996
• Dr Kjell Nordstrom and Dr Jonas Ridderstrale, Funky Business, 2001
• Jeff Immelt, General Electric’s CEO, in Thomas Friedman, The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century
• Thomas Friedman, The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century
• Gregg Easterbrook, The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse
• Daniel Pink, A Whole New Mind: Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age
• Alvin Toffler, The Third Wave
• Frank Levy of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Richard Murnane of Harvard University in The New Division of Labour: how computers are creating the next job market
• Daniel Pink, A Whole New Mind: Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age
• Tom Stoppard in James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg, The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
• Daniel Coleman, Emotional Intelligence
• Daniel Pink, A Whole New Mind: Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age
• Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning
• Jacob Needleman in Daniel Pink, A Whole New Mind: Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age
• Robert William Fogel, Nobel laureate economist, The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism
• Joseph Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy
• Andrew Grove, President of Intel Corp, in James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg, The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
• Dr Martin Seligman, Authentic Happiness
• James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg, The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
• Anthony Robbins, Unlimited Power
• Jim Collins, From Good to Great

Articles:

• ‘Confidence Tricks’, The Australian Financial Review, Mike Hanley, 14/10/2005
• ‘Emotional Rescue’, The Sydney Morning Herald, Pam Kershaw, 08/06/2004
• ‘Want the world hands?’, Sun Herald, 01/09/2002, John Dagge
• ‘The coach trip’, Sydney Morning Herald, 12/04/2003, Tim Dick
• ‘No place for ‘never’ if you want to be in the swim’, Sydney Morning Herald, 12/07/2003, Pam Kershaw
• ‘Coached eggs’, Sydney Morning Herald, 29/02/2000, Pam Kershaw
• ‘Confidence Tricks’, The Australian Financial Review, Mike Hanley, 14/10/2005
• ‘Life is what you make it’, The Age, 9/10/99, Lisa Kearns
• ‘Dare to develop’, Sydney Morning Herald, 15/05/2002, Kelly Baker
• ‘How I became a life coach’, Sun Herald, 05/05/02, Melinda Houston
• ‘I want to be happy, too’, The Sunday Age, Jane Freeman, 04/06/1994
• ‘The New Sobriety’, The Financial Review, 27/05/2005, Julie Macken
• ‘Mind over Medicine’, Sun Herald, 07/04/2002, Paula Goodyer
• Sarah Edelman of the health psychology unit at the University of Technology, Sydney, in ‘Mind over Medicine’, Sun Herald, 07/04/2002, Paula Goodyer
• 'The head can rule the heart’, The Age, 22/03/2003, Peter Ellingsen
• Professor Mark Cohen, RMIT, in ‘The head can rule the heart’, The Age, 22/03/2003, Peter Ellingsen
• ‘A question of proof’, The Age, 29/03/2004, Roslyn Guy
• ‘Shaping the whole person’, Illawarra Mercury, 16/07/1998, Gay Mackie
• ‘Life is what you make it’, The Age, 9/10/99, Lisa Kearns
• ‘Layne splashes out’, Sun Herald, 28/10/2001, Danny Weidler
• ‘Expert push’, Sydney Morning Herald, 15/08/2001, Ben Wyld
• ‘Get a Life’, Sydney Morning Herald, 30/05/1998, Jane Freeman
• ‘In search of the a-grade life coach’, The Financial Review, 08/07/2000
• ‘Light beyond the crash’, Sun Herald, 06/10/2002, Sandra Deeble
• ‘Going for goals’, The Age, 25/06/2003, Peter Ellingsen
• ‘Coaches in the game of life’, BRW, 16/03/1998, Adele Ferguson
• ‘Get with the strength’, The Age, 24/09/2001, Elisabeth Tarica
• ‘Who’s coaching the coach?’, Sydney Morning Herald, 01/07/2000, Peter Vincent
• ‘Someone to watch over you’, The Financial Review, 09/10/2000, Mark Chipperfield
• ‘Emotional Rescue’, The Sydney Morning Herald, Pam Kershaw, 08/06/2004
• ‘Getting with the Program’, The Age, Marcella Bidinost, 20/08/2005
• ‘Training the Traders’, The Sydney Morning Herald, Barbara Drury, 19/08/1998
• Dr Clive Hamilton in ‘When tomorrow comes’, Sun Herald, 05/12/2004, Dominic Cadden
• ‘When tomorrow comes’, Sun Herald, 05/12/2004, Dominic Cadden
• ‘The Subconscious Secrets of Success’, Sydney Morning Herald, 20/08/2001, Peter Gotting
• Robert Krausz from The New Market Wizards in ‘Suggestions of a Hypnotic Trader’, The Financial Review, 09/04/1996, Andrea Papuc
• Andrew Hays, Lecturer at the Macquarie Graduate School of Management in ‘Working to type’, The Sydney Morning Herald, Edmund Tadros, 03/11/2004
• ‘Mirror as a Model for Change’, The Financial Review, Fiona Smith, 13/05/2005
• ‘Who’s coaching the coach?’, Sydney Morning Herald, 01/07/2000, Peter Vincent
• ‘Someone to watch over you’, The Financial Review, 09/10/2000, Mark Chipperfield
• ‘It’s a goal’, Sydney Morning Herald, 15/03/2000, Bronwyn Donaghy
• ‘Get a Life’, Sydney Morning Herald, 30/05/1998, Jane Freeman
• ‘Room at the top for executive coaching’, The Financial Review, 28/11/2003, Bill Pheasant
• ‘Executive help’, The Financial Review, 07/12/2001, Deborah Tarrant