Book Reviews
Leadership • Equity • Culture
More Books for January 2023 4-minute read Best Books in: Leadership: 6 Types of Working Genius and nine others Equity: The Third Reconstruction and three others Culture: The Burnout Epidemic and two others Bonus: The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams … and others Leadership: The 6 Types of Working Genius: A Better Way to Understand…
Read MoreA Review of – Failure of Nerve
Review: A Failure of Nerve by Edwin Friedman 2-minute read Core Idea: A calm, steady, non-anxious leadership presence is key. Problem: Leadership is change. Change creates fear. Fear leads to sabotage. A failure of nerve jeopardizes progress and encourages chaos. Social and political anxieties paralyze our ability to think, dream, and move forward. Solution: Leadership…
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More on Leadership, Summer Reads, History, and Equity Leadership Risk: A User’s Guide by Stanley McChrystal and Anna Butrico | Oct 5, 2021 McChrystal’s Team of Teams book told how teamwork, communication and networks helped turn the tide in Iraq. Here, McChrystal provides ten factors that are critical to risk reduction. Adaptability, leadership, and a positive mindset help tip the…
Read MoreFive Books on Growing Culture
Culture – Five Books on Growing Culture “In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.” – Eric Hoffer “Strategy eats culture for breakfast.” – Peter Drucker Fitting it all together Sometimes you work on one section of a jigsaw puzzle…
Read MoreCollaborating … when it is difficult
A Review: Collaborating with the Enemy By Adam Kahane Discernment suggests that we work with others to define the problem and work together on a solution. Complexity and polarization, however, often make this difficult. Adam Kahane has been at the center of many of the world’s toughest challenges, seeking to end conflict in Columbia and…
Read MoreMore books on discernment and equity
More Books … I’ll start with a list of books that fit our theme of discernment … and adaptive leadership (last month’s theme) … here are several titles that resonate: Leadership … discernment Collaborating with the Enemy: How to Work with People You Don’t Agree with or Like or Trust by Adam Kahane | Jun 5, 2017 This…
Read MoreGrow a Strong Team … A Review of … Impact Players
Review: Impact Players How to Take the Lead, Play Bigger, and Multiply your Impact by Liz Wiseman Lead with impact in uncertain times Liz Wiseman, author of Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter, has a new book out. Here she writes for the vast majority of us in middle management about how to have…
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More From My Bookshelf Adaptive Leadership in a Global Economy … Application and Scholarship by Mohammed Raei (Editor), Harriette Thurber Rasmussen (Editor) | December 31, 2021 Incredible book about implementing adaptive leadership – world wide – in the midst of the pandemic and other disruptions. Great tools and ideas for teams that want to become more adaptive in our…
Read MoreResiliency, culture and belonging for hard times
Resiliency Books What have you learned since we last met? –Ralph Waldo Emerson Five years from now you will be the same as today but for the people you meet and the books you read. –Stanley “Tremendous” Jones Lately, my reading keeps coming back to the themes of resiliency, culture, and belonging. Here are a…
Read MoreAdapting for Equity: Chicago’s Story
Adapting for Equity: Chicago’s Story Districts that Succeed: Karen Chenoweth’s new book, Districts that Succeed: breaking the correlation between race, poverty and achievement, is a great book. Chenoweth tells how five districts, large and small, have created student achievement success. She used the research by Sean Reardon (Stanford) showing district outliers that outperformed districts with…
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