I have had my eyes on this book for several years, but the pandemic reality and our institution’s emergency pivot to online education this year compelled me to finally read it as…
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Quick Review: EQ and Leadership in Asia
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…
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: 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: 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…