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…
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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: 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: 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: 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…
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…