Last week I got a chance to read Michael Eric Dyson’s Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America. It is in the same vein as James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time and Te-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me, which were also quite powerful…
Tag: identity
Quick Review: Resolving Identity Based Conflict
As I continue in my research, a unique and different mediation or conflict intervention model is found in Jay Rothman’s Resolving Identity-Based Conflict in Nations, Organizations, and Communities. Rothman’s model is the…
The Virtues Vs. The Soda Machine: Re-Entry #1
It’s the second straight summer we’ve been back in the United States and it’s the second straight summer of cross-cultural weirdness. Many are familiar with the concept of re-entry, it’s the idea…
Quick Review: Between the World and Me
Last week I finished Between The World And Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates. What a powerful book. I did this by audiobook, which was read by the author, and I think that made it even…
Quick Review: The Five Temptations of a CEO
Thanks to Audible, Patrick Lencioni’s book The FIVE Temptations of a CEO was on sale last week for 50% so I think I got it for around $4 or so. It’s one of…
Quick Review: DRiVE
Last week I finished reading Daniel Pink’s DRiVE: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. Understanding motivation seems to be an under explored aspect of leadership studies and action. Given how much…
Quick Review: It’s Not About The Coffee
I’m catching up this week on many a book review that I haven’t been able to get to in recent months, but here is a leadership book I enjoyed recently from one of…
Ministry Has A Mordor
It’s been a while since the Lord of the Rings craze a few years back, but we soon we’ll be revisiting Middle Earth again through the release of The Hobbit. I loved…
Self: The Most Pernicious Program of All
Here’s the second post of my re-release of this advent series. This post was originally posted December 1st, 2010. ———————————– This is part two out of three of a mini-blog series on…