Almost everyone celebrates something during the winter solstice—Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, etc.—which inevitably includes gift exchanging. Following are some suggestions that run the gamut from technical to personal growth to just plain entertainment.

Videos/DVDs

There is a “quality” undercurrent in all of these—could also be useful for retreat entertainment.

• Mindwalk—A “systems’ thinking” version of My Dinner with Andre. It never fails to blow me away.

• Tampopo—A “spaghetti western” with a Japanese version of Clint Eastwood taking a noodle-soup chef on a quality journey (Honestly!). It's funny and insightful… and highly recommended. [In Japanese with subtitles]

• The Mozart Brothers—For those of you with an artsy streak: Mozart meets the Marx Brothers. A film for showing what “thinking outside the box” truly means. It’s way out there!

Statistics books/improvement references

General/service industry/health care

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