As I get to the end of the year, I wanted to post some book reviews in advance of posting a best of 2020 reading post. A really helpful book I read…
Category: Culture
Quick Review: Identity and Violence
I have been slow to post a quick review of Amartya Sen’s Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny, but I wanted to post just to draw some attention to it as most people…
Quick Review: The Little Book of Racial Healing
The Little Books of Justice & Peacemaking is a great series of books that convey key arenas of scholarship, theory, and methodology in manageable sizes (about 100 pages each book or 1/2…
Quick Review: Talking To Strangers
I just finished Malcom Gladwell’s most recent book Talking to Strangers , which is another great read in keeping with many of his other books. The audiobook is a cutting edge approach to…
Quick Review: The Little Book of Conflict Transformation
This fall one of my academic goals was to immerse myself in the work of John Paul Lederach, one of the giant voices as a scholar and practitioner in the realm of…
Quick Review: Building Peace – Sustainable Reconciliation in Divided Societies
I have been wanting to read much more of John Paul Lederach’s work, but just haven’t made it happen – until now. I read through his Building Peace: Sustainable Reconciliation in Divided Societies,…
Quick Review: Leading Multicultural Teams
I’ve been crashing through different resources as I prepare for a new leadership course on teams and just finished Leading Multicultural Teams by Evelyn & Richard Hibbert. This is a book on…
Quick Review: The Ideal Team Player
This week I final got to go through Patrick Lencioni’s The Ideal Team Player as I’m preparing for a new course on Teams. I’ve enjoyed all of Lencioni’s books. I think this might…
Quick Review: The Art of Gathering
I was recommended this book this summer by Priya Parker called The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters. And after reading it, I can recommend it to you as well. …