Book Reviews
Growing Agency for the Common Good
Growing Agency – 90 Minutes with Peter Block – “Bringing people together as partners is our major task as leaders.” – Peter Block. Leaders get things done through and with others. Leadership is about building strong relationships, establishing connections, and working towards the common good. While we may have specific tasks assigned, how we get…
Read MoreReview: Equity Focused Leadership
Book Review: Entry Planning for Equity-Focused Leaders – Empowering Schools and Communities By Jennifer Perry Cheatham, Rodney Thomas, and Adam Parrott-Sheffer. Read this book to “garner trust, insights, and impetus to make … transformational change.” A Powerful Framework and Resource Start strong, stay strong, and get stronger with this book. “Entry Planning for Equity-Focused Leaders”…
Read MoreMore Books on Leadership, Equity, Innovation, Belonging
More Books November 2023 Two dozen books on Leadership, Innovation, Belonging, Equity, Fiction, and Faction. Leadership BE 2.0 (Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0): Turning Your Business into an Enduring Great Company by Jim Collins | Dec 1, 2020 | 4.8 out of 5 stars 609 A roadmap for leaders of enduring greatness. Recaps the lessons learned from 35 years of research on…
Read MoreLeadership • 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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