Category: Reviews
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Book Review: The Heart Aroused
The Heart Aroused by David Whyte was first published in 1994. If I had read it twenty years ago, it might had influenced me to take another path in my work life? Or, maybe I needed the experience acquired during those twenty years to really appreciate the book? It’s a wonderful book. David Whyte eloquently…
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Book Review: Beyond Majority Rule
Beyond Majority Rule: voteless decisions in the Religious Society of Friends is the publication of Michael J. Sheeran’s doctoral work in the Dept. of Politics at Princeton University. He spent two years (1973—75) conducting interviews, reading, and observing the actual decision-making of the Quakers. Sheeran is convinced that the Quakers “have something of first importance…
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Book Review: Turn the Ship Around!
Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders by L. David Marquet is “a call to action, a manifesto” for turning followers into leaders (p. xxx) . At its core is the belief that “we can all be leaders, in fact, it’s best when we all are leaders” (p. xxvii). David…
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Book Review: The Power of Six
The Power of Six: A Six Part Guide to Self Knowledge by Philip Harland is a brilliant and beautifully written book on the Power of Six, which is a practice for tapping into our own self-knowledge. Philip Harland covers the necessary conditions for the practice, outlines a number of ways of orchestrating the work, offers…
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Book Review: Bad Samaritans
Bad Samaritans: Rich Nations, Poor Policies And The Threat To The Developing World by Ha-Joon Chang is a well researched and beautifully written book. The author convincingly offers new ways of seeing the world affairs and how they can become fairer and more prosperous. I highly recommend this book!
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Book Review: Changing Conversations in Organizations
Changing Conversations in Organizations: A Complexity Approach to Change by Patricia Shaw is based on the assumption that “conversation itself is the key process through which forms of organizing are dynamically sustained and changed” (p. 10). Patricia Shaw describes and illustrates “conversation as a process of communicative action” (p. 11). She explores at how we…
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Book Review: Team of Teams
Teams of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World by Stanley McChrystal, with Tantum Collins, David Silverman, and Chris Fussell, is a book about the restructuring of the Joint Special Operations Task Force from the ground up. The book is built upon the authors ”personal experiences”, together with their ”reviews” of ”published studies”…
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Book Review: First Steps to Seeing
First Steps to Seeing: A Path Towards Living Attentively is Emma Kidd’s first book. Emma Kidd “left the fashion industry to investigate alternative ways of thinking about and doing business” (p. 11). What she didn’t expect was that her explorations would take her right back to the very foundation for her previous work as designer…
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Book Review: The Human Experiment
The Human Experiment: Two Years and Twenty Minutes Inside Biosphere 2 by Jane Poynter is a story about how she struggled to survive in Biosphere 2 together with seven other people. It’s a story of never-ending hunger, extremely low oxygen levels, and conflicts between the crew members. It’s a story where “the work ethic and…
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Book Review: Freedom to Live
Freedom to Live: The Robert Hartman Story is an autobiography which was originally written for a series of seminars given by Robert Hartman to top executives who wanted to develop more sensitivity to human values. Hartman’s writing and life experiences are very interesting and engaging. He was born in Germany in 1910. Seeing the Nazis…