Recommendations
Be it in Dubai, Abu Dhabi or overseas, M/HQ’s clients’ engagement follows a consistent recipe: handpicked guests, engaging conversations, fine food and wine, all with the support of our favorite venues.
Here are some of these – M/HQ stamped!
M/HQ’s book of the year’ [or ‘books’ – sometimes, it is hard to choose!] tradition has been running since the firm’s launch in ’09 – our way of thanking our clients, patrons, supporters, staff, while sharing something memorable and close to the firm’s values.
Discover our past picks!
A History of the World in 6 Glasses
2025
“To understand humanity, look at what we drank.” How everyday beverages quietly shaped empires and ideas.
Tom Standage
Gastrophysics: The New Science of Eating
2024
“Gastrophysics” explores how our senses and even our surroundings—influence the way we taste, revealing the science behind truly memorable meals.
Charles Spence
Reverberation: Do Everything Better with Music
2023
You’ll learn specific songs and techniques to help you sleep better, induce creative breakthroughs, be more productive, and a whole lot more.
Keith Blanchard
Humour, Seriously
2022
Humour is a superpower. If you’re not using it, the joke’s on you. How Humour and levity can be used as powerful performance enhancing tools.
Jennifer Aaker & Naomi Bagdonas
The Motivation Myth
2021
Motivation and success are not about spiritual awakening or a lighting bolt of inspiration. It all comes from within! Trust the process.
Jeff Haden
The Captain Class
2020
The secret to winning is not what you think it is: It’s not the coach. It’s not the star. It’s not money. It’s not a strategy. From the world of competitve team sport, unveiling the seven key qualities that make an exceptional leader.
Sam Walker
Range
2019
A fresh take at the world’s top performers, from professional athletes to Nobel laureates, and what made them who they are. In an increasingly specialized world, it is – surprisingly – the generalist that is rising to the top.
David Epstein
The Rebel Talent
2018
What do the world’s best chef, an airline captain who brought his flight to safety in a daring water landing, and most successful entrepreneurs have in common? They love their jobs, they break the rules, and the world is better for it. They are rebels – just like us at M/HQ.
Francesca Gino
The Little Book of Talent
2017
In sports, music, art, and business, talent is a skill – and like any skill, it can be nurtured, improved and utimately mastered. Here is how.
Daniel Coyle
Real Food Fake Food…
2016
Copycats and counterfeits exist in the most unsuspected places. And as in many hings in life, in food, knowledge is key and the real stuff is not always way to identify. Recognize what to look for, eat, and savour!
Larry Olmsted
Money, Taste & Wine
2016
Century-old commodity, largely basic but sometimes uber-luxurious product, uncorrelated asset class [see our podcast Foundations & ….Wine?
Mike Veseth
The Lion Awakes
2015
The story of African entrepreneurship [and the key role played in it by the UAE], as told by one of its most succesful tech entrepreneur #AshishJThakkar
Ashish Thakkar
Swiss Watching
2014
All you [think you] know – and then some – about the contradicting, fascinating, country of Switzerland [Where M/HQ has its roots]. Special thanks to #DicconBewes for hosting a memorable launch event in DxB.
Diccon Bewes
The Go-Giver
2012
The book that started it all [thanks #HarryMartin.] ‘A Little Story about the power of giving.’. Small in size, BIG in impact.
Bob Burg and John David Mann
