As I’ve explored different resources on leadership in Asia, EQ and Leadership in Asia: Using Emotional Intelligence to Lead and Inspire Your People by Sebastian Henry was one I was intrigued by…
Category: Development
Quick Review: Conflict Management and African Politics
In some of my research, I read Conflict Management and African Politics by Terrence Lyons and Gilbert M. Khadiagala. This was one of the few books I could find to explore African…
Quick Review: Negotiating in Asia
One of the books I read in preparing for a new leadership course on negotiation I taught this year was Robert Azar’s Negotiating in Asia: A Practical Guide to Succeeding in International Negotiations. …
Quick Review: Unlocking Leadership Mindtraps
Unlocking Leadership Mindtraps was one of my favorite books to read over the past year. Just an interesting and research-based book on human, social, and organizational behavior. The author addresses five main…
Quick Review: Raising Up a Generation of Healthy Third Culture Kids
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…
Learning in Encounter
A helpful concept to all forms of development and formation is “learning in encounter.” A recent lecture / paper on the topic can be found here. In reflecting on this topic, it’s…
Quick Review: How to Write with Flair
On a recommendation from a friend, I read this short book on writing style, How to Write With Flair by Heather Holleman. This is a writing book so not the type of…
Quick Review: Preparing For Peace
As I have been working through many of the books of Peace Studies scholar-practitioner John Paul Lederach, here’s one from the late 90’s. Preparing for Peace: Conflict Transformation Across Cultures, as the…
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…