U Connect: The Art of Making Connections to Resolve Disputes
I published my 2nd e-book this week, on Amazon. It’s titled: U Connect: The Art of Making Connections to Resolve Disputes. It’s a consolidation of some my observations, along with insights I’ve culled from others, around “making connections”. Here’s the Table of Contents and here’s the Introduction section: “Disputes happen. How do we respond? One [...]
10 Holiday Gift Book Ideas for the “Mediator” in Your Life
I enjoy reading books. They are a safe way to explore the ideas and works of others. And, a really good book is inspiring. It seems to connect on a personal and emotional level; a connection that can motivate one to further thought and action. Here are ten of the books I read in 2011, [...]
Creative Thinkering: Video Book Review
Are you a problem-solver? Do you find yourself struggling to come up with creative ideas? Then I recommend you check out Michael Michalko’s books. I did. Here’s my video report on his latest book, Creative Thinkering: Putting Your Imagination to Work. (video not displaying? click here). And, here’s a short summary of some of the [...]
The Many Perspectives on Aging
A lot happens on the edges. As we get close to the far edge of our life, it’s an opportunity to look back, and reflect on what happened, and be true to oneself. Listening and interacting with older people (older than me, anyways)… or my elders, as I prefer to relate to them, can be [...]
Aging and The Joys of Mostly Good Enough
In a world of be all you can be, I’m getting more comfortable with being “mostly good enough”. There is a rhythm to life. Why fight it. Go with the flow, I tell myself. Maybe this inclination is nothing more than a gut feeling. A feeling based on 5.6 decades of being, alterations to the [...]
The Future Value of Increased Collaboration
It’s a wondrous world. Just finished Michael Ondaatje’s book about his conversations with the seminal film editor, Walter Murch, The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film. A companion to Murch’s own book, In the Blink of an Eye. Two books; each shedding new light on my understanding of “collaboration”. In my previous [...]
Simplify your external world to Amplify your internal world + 5 books to help you
“Collaboration and connecting with others is a beautiful thing, but in the end, creation is done in solitude. All great art is done in isolation. All creative work must be done by shutting out the outside world, sitting down, and creating.” (Leo Babauta, Zen Habits) Nice idea. Yet, for most of us, immersed in the [...]
Walk Out Walk On: Video Book Review
Walk Out Walk On. What a great title for a book. It could apply to many things. Yes? In this post it applies to the latest book from Margaret Wheatley, a book she co-authored with Deborah Frieze. Both women are associated with the Berkana Institute, an organization that believes “whatever is the problem, community is [...]
Getting ready for the future: Big Brother or Webmind?
Thinking of the future offers us a choice. Will it be a dystopian one, a la 1984, George Orwell and Big Brother, or will it be one of abundance, and positive potential? It can be a self-fulfilling prophecy. In his World Wide Web (WWW) trilogy (Wake , Watch , Wonder), science fiction author, par excellence, [...]
Tangles: Video book review
Things happen. For writer Sarah Leavitt’s mother, Alzheimer’s disease happened. The disease transformed her mother, and her family, forever. “Tangles: A story about Alzheimer’s, my mother and me” is Sarah’s account of that journey. I loved Tangles. The author writes both prose and comics, and she uses both to advantage in putting forward a compelling [...]
