Books

Beav’s Favorite Books from 2011

December 30, 2011

It’s that time to post my top books of 2011. I’ll confess – as this year witnessed my liberation from grad school after 9 years part-time, I hit a little more fiction in my routine than normal. So here are some ideas perhaps for you in 2012! If you have a good one, leave a [...]

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3 for 1 Beav Book Reviews

May 10, 2011

My frequency of posts has been down significantly because basically I’ve been getting my butt kicked the last couple months with finishing out school and a variety of other special projects and travel. If anything, the series of book reviews I’m pumping out reveal that I’ve been hitting a lot of books lately. So I’ll [...]

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Another Brief Review – Breaking Through to Teens

May 3, 2011

I’ll continue getting back into the swing of things on the blogfront with another book review. I had to recently read Breaking Through to Teens: Psychotherapy for the New Adolescence by Ron Taffel. It’s directed to help professionals and counselors who are struggling to help and offer productive help for this millenial generation of teenagers. [...]

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Killer of Little Shepherds-Brief Review

April 24, 2011

I posted a little bit ago about humble doubt in the search for truth from the reading of Douglas Starr’s The Killer of Little Shepherds. I wanted to come back and offer up a few more thoughts on the book and advocate for why it might be worth reading. This book tracks the development of [...]

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Beav’s Favorite Books from 2010

December 26, 2010

As I continue my “Best of” from 2010 posts, I’m offering up the books I enjoyed and appreciated the most from 2010. Honorable mention goes to Servant Leadership by Robert Greenleaf, The Gift of Pain by Dr. Paul Brand & Philip Yancey, The Future Arrived Yesterday by Michael Malone, Velvet Elvis by Rob Bell, The [...]

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Intimacy and Leadership

December 13, 2010

In the Leadership Coaching Group I’m facilitating this year, we just wrapped up going through Henri Nouwen’s leadership classic, In the Name of Jesus. This was the third or fourth time I’ve read it (you can read it in under 2 hrs), but it still packs a punch like it’s the first time.He draws from [...]

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Do Your Words Heal Lightly or Deeply?

November 4, 2010

It’s been a while since I’ve posted a good “Prophets vs. Posers” quote. I was re-reading a book I read before I started blogging a few years ago and wanted to submit this quote for your reflection, “Throughout these events [anxiety times] God sends prophets to open the people’s eyes and to expand their horizon. [...]

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Don’t Wait to Create!

November 3, 2010

I reviewed a book a while back called Orbiting the Giant Hairball that was given to me by a friend this past summer. Since then I’ve gotten no less that 20 people to read it (no joke) and I’ve had fantastic interactions over it and I’m using it in the leadership coaching group I’m starting [...]

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Retaining Cross-Cultural Talent

July 25, 2010

I referenced some quotes and thoughts from Michael Malone’s The Future Arrived Yesterday in the past week and wanted to highlight one more and make a slightly different application given my own context.In the email I mentioned to my friend Malone wrote, “Smart companies (and countries) are going to have to learn to perpetually scour [...]

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