Happy New Year. We know that not every reader of the Shirlaws Business Links has the opportunity to read every edition, or click on the links to all the interesting and practical stories.

So over the holiday break, we thought we would send out some of the most popular stories from 2009. The joke, as always, is new.

A full archive (and your Christmas gift) can be found at www.shirlawsonline.com/blogs

The Five Whys
From Toyota to a business near you comes the only 5 questions you need in business. If coaching, my business, is about 'asking the right questions' then here is a new pinnacle of simplicity - 5 questions, and they're all the same.

Income | Equity | Control | Yoghurt
In business, you can choose how you balance the options of Income, Equity and Control, creating powerful structural or partnership outcomes. This link is the best example I've ever seen where an individual understood the differences between all three.

Socks don't match? How about a Subscription?
An innovation that may have worked better in the last boom, or whose time has yet to arrive. It's Socks... by Subscription.

Visual Illusion of the Year
Speaking of vision, how's yours? Follow the instructions on this page (in the green box) and be surprised. It talks of a Baseball curveball - I wonder if there's a link to cricket's elusive 'reverse swing'.

Intranet Joke of the Week

Having left the holiday shopping to the last minute, a woman finds herself at the supermarket anxiously picking over the last few remaining turkeys in the hope of finding a large one.
In desperation, she calls over a shop assistant and asks: "Do these turkeys get any bigger?"
"No madam," was the assistants reply. "I'm afraid they're all dead.

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