Book Reviews
12/21 – Nurturing our Humanity
Suzy Adra Utopia. It is a buzzword these days. What I learned about Utopia during my early days in college was that it is an ideal society where everything is perfect. Eisler…
12/21 – Planetary praxis and pedagogy: Transdisciplinary approaches to environmental sustainability
Sue L. T. McGregor This book is edited by Canadians Shannon Moore and Richard Mitchell, both from Brock University in Ontario, Canada. Their edited collection is 150 pages in length…
06/29 – Leading Beyond the Ego
Annabel Beerel John Knights, President of the U.K based leadership development and coaching organization, LeaderShape Global, along with several members of his team, advocate a new leadership approach for the…
06/29 – The Desire for Mutual Recognition: Social Movements and the Dissolution of the False Self
Barbara Nussbaum This book has already been singled out by its academic publisher, Routledge, nominating it for the best nonfiction book in 2018. But for me the compelling reason for…
11/30 – Going Horizontal: Creating a Non-Hierarchical Organization, One Practice at a Time
In Going Horizontal: Creating a Non-hierarchical Organization, One Practice at a Time Samantha Slade has captured in plain language how to achieve what so many of us have longed for deep down:…
Innovative Development: Emerging Worldviews and Systems Change (Integral Publishers, 2015) is a useful volume (edited by late Tom Christensen—you did a very good job here, Tom, and I wish you…
08/29 – Secular, Sacred, Scientific
Graham Mummery In the prefaces to the current book, Spiral Dynamics in Action: Humanity’s Master Code (Beck, Larsen, Solonin, Viljoen, Johns 2018), the authors and editors explain that this is…
Eugene Pustoshkin In Colin Wilson: Collected Essays on Philosophers, edited by Colin Stanley, with an introduction by John Shand, meaning perception, existential intensity, and overcoming our alienation from power consciousness,…
Russell Fitzpatrick Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey. An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization. (2016). Harvard Business Review Press. An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization by Robert…
8/31 – The Simpol Solution
Jon Freeman John Bunzl and Nick Duffell (2017). The Simpol Solution. Peter Owen Limited This is a good book, engaging, well written and with many interesting ideas which deserve consideration. It has…