2016

First Friday Book Synopsis

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Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me – My Four Lessons and Takeaways

First Friday Book Synopsis

I presented my synopsis of Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates yesterday at the Urban Engagement Book Club — to a large audience in an over-flowing room. (sponsored by CitySquare). I’ve presented synopses of buseinss books each month for 18 years at the First Friday Book Synsopsis. And I’ve presented synopses of books on social justice issues monthly for 12 years… Read More Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me – My Four Lessons and Takeaways.

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My lessons and takeaways from Housing First: Ending Homelessness, Transforming Systems, and Changing Lives

First Friday Book Synopsis

There are homeless people in our midst, all across our land. People without a home of their own. And, among these homeless people, there are some who are “chronically homeless – in other words, they will be homeless if the “rest of us” do not do something to help them. And the best help… Read More My lessons and takeaways from Housing First: Ending Homelessness, Transforming Systems, and Changing Lives.

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Hill’s Masterpiece Includes Sound Father’s Day Advice

First Friday Book Synopsis

I am reading Clint Hill‘s wonderful new best-seller, Five Presidents (Gallery, 2016), in which he details his seventeen years experience in the U.S. Secret Service, when he served under Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford. Hill, you may recall, wrote two other best-sellers, Mrs. Kennedy and Me (Gallery, 2012), and Five Days in November… Read More Hill’s Masterpiece Includes Sound Father’s Day Advice.

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All we say to America is, “Be true to what you said on paper.” – Martin Luther King, Jr., April 3, 1968

First Friday Book Synopsis

This Thursday at noon, we will focus on Strength to Love by Martin Luther King, Jr. at the Urban Engagement Book Club in Dallas (sponsored by CitySquare – Click here for the details). But, today is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in America. Here ‘s the short version of his career: December 1, 1955 –… Read More All we say to America is, “Be true to what you said on paper.” – Martin Luther King, Jr., April 3, 1968.

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Leo Bottary on the Power of Peer Advisory Groups: An interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Leo Bottary is Vice President, Peer Advantage, for Vistage Worldwide, where he directs a thought leadership initiative on the power of peer influence for business leaders. Leo also serves as an adjunct professor for two of Seton Hall University’s graduate leadership communication programs. In April 2015, he was named adjunct teacher of the year for… Read More Leo Bottary on the Power of Peer Advisory Groups: An interview by Bob Morris.

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How to Bring about Change, and other thoughts – insights from Sir Ken Robinson’s Creative Schools

First Friday Book Synopsis

If you’ve never watched Ken Robinson’s TED Talk, Do Schools Kill Creativity?, then you are behind the times. It is the most viewed TED Talk ever. (Click here to watch it). Although, from his book Creative Schools: “I know that’s not as many views as Miley Cyrus gets. But I don’t twerk.” His book is… Read More How to Bring about Change, and other thoughts – insights from Sir Ken Robinson’s Creative Schools.

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Willful blindness: We are all starting to see it seemingly everywhere – Refecting on Wells Fargo’s ethical “lapse”

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Once the idea of willful blindness lodged in my mind, I started to see it everywhere. Margaret Heffernan, Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at our Peril In a statement following the settlement, Wells Fargo said, “Wells Fargo reached these agreements consistent with our commitment to customers and in the interest of putting this… Read More Willful blindness: We are all starting to see it seemingly everywhere – Refecting on Wells Fargo’s ethical “lapse”.

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