From The Hands of the Really Rich

Posted on | September 14, 2012 | No Comments

From The Hands of the Really Rich Today, when I stopped to get my reward-Polish-sausage in the park after my run, I witnessed the following scene. The young hot dog vendor, who does not sell cheeseburgers, spoke slowly and carefully to a disabled homeless man standing near him as he handed the homeless man some dollar bills. “Ok, one cheeseburger for me, one cheeseburger for you, and you can keep the two dollars change BUT bring me my cheeseburger first”. Billionaires only give their money away when they can put their name on it, but hot dog vendors are feeding and caring for the world one person at a time. Shawn Nichols, MA, CC  

Zero – The Dangerous Idea banned and worshipped.

Posted on | September 4, 2012 | No Comments

Zero - The Dangerous Idea banned and worshipped. Zero – The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife, Penguin Publishing It’s a concept so familiar to people in the current age including mathematicians, nuclear physicists, religious theorists, and children, yet most people celebrated the wrong change of the recent millennia. Charles Seife illustrates not only the origins of the concept of zero – null exists before the number one – but the adoption of numerics across time. The church fought against the idea of zero and infinity because it conflicted with the powers of their god. Other religions revered the concept and while land surveyors used the number zero they were banned from speaking about it in public. This excellent book is not only about the fight of logic versus religion but shows numerous historical examples of ignorance and its stubborn position. Seife writes without bias but one example after another shows the war of ideas and reality in narrow-minded societies.

Walk Out Walk On by Margaret Wheatley and Deborah Frieze

Posted on | August 5, 2012 | No Comments

Walk Out Walk On by Margaret Wheatley and Deborah Frieze 2011 Berrett-Koehler I have read Meg Wheatley’s work on Leadership but was delighted and inspired by this engrossing work with Deborah Frieze. I have sent the title to many of my friends who are engrossed in the “American Imperialist” manner of world change and “improvement”. The book charts a travel log of five different cultures responding to crisis and shock by pulling themselves up by their bootstraps with only their own resources. Undoing genocidal, political, and agricultural fallout, finding dignity in the process, and sharing the knowledge on are the hallmarks of these pragmatic and yet lyrical communities. I was struck by the lessons these groups have learned – beware the consultants – a lesson our embedded American communities come to grips with everyday. This work resonates within drug addicted and criminal issues communities regarding the insider knowledge and experience that a turn around requires. I’m following these two dynamic authors and change-makers in my daily reading. Thank you Meg and Deborah!

How Will You Measure Your Life by Clayton Christensen

Posted on | August 2, 2012 | No Comments

How Will You Measure Your Life by Clayton Christensen with James Allworth and Karen Dillon 2012 Harper Collins We start with a plan. This plan is based on all the things we ever learned, were exposed to, and includes our family-of-origin issues and beliefs – for better or worse. We advance this plan to an action stage, vigilant as required, semi-anxious and naively confident but then something goes wrong. We start to adapt. Dr. Christensen’s latest book dissects the powerful external effects on our lives and plans that enhance and corrupt our goals. He knows the players, uses their names, and his own and supplies compelling examples when our ethical foundations are diminished by the world and its realities. Some of these we may never have been exposed to before but some are as simple as the corner office, the bigger paycheck, and the necessity of providing for our families. « go back — keep looking »

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