Canter Bridge

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This little book makes available the details of an extensive research project that investigated why donors abandon the non-profit organizations about which they once felt such enthusiasm. In addition, the author provides fifteen short chapters of interpretation and suggestions for the non-profit workers who find themselves on the losing end of this pilgrimage of the heart. (more…)

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This helpful book cannot be adequately summarized except by comparison and contrast with David Allen’s Getting Things Done. This is so for two reasons. First, McGhee claims in her acknowledgements to have co-developed the system that Allen has gone on to disseminate with extraordinary results. Second, the family resemblance between the two authors’ work is obvious and suggests shared genetics, even down to the marginal quotations that are meant to inspire but which I found irksomely cliché?. (more…)

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Stephen Covey’s organizational juggernaut wants to align me with the way things are in the world so that I’ll cooperate rather than contradict the `principles’ that govern it. Ever since I bought the audio and print versions of this best-selling life management book and took a colleague’s recommendation to purchase his Outlook add-in program, my inbox is full of eager invitations to attend Franklin Covey seminars.

The numbers tell us that Covey is scratching where many of us itch. He has primed an organization not to let opportunity pass. He must have read his own books. (more…)

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I never thought I could get too much of David Allen, the productivity guru whose Getting Things Done system has transformed my work and life habits. But this book borders on too much of a good thing.

At least, that is, if you sit down and read right through it. The trick is to ration. (more…)

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If author Craig Groeschel’s dustcover picture makes him too young too have written such an urgent book, the football-field exhortations and postmodern layout of the book seem to line up perfectly with his youthful pose. I must confess that Groeschel had overcome my reservations about his style by about the fifty-yard line … I mean, the halfway point of this highly-focused book. (more…)

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This entry in Ken Blanchard’s One Minute Manager Library uses the narrative style that has for better or worse become standard in business literature to teach `situational leadership’ in terms of flexibility, diagnosis, and partnering. (more…)

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The classification of temperament is as at least two millenia old. Some of this effort falls decidely in the the half-baked side of the pan. Yet much of it is decidely helpful in understanding ‘the way we are wired’ and ‘the way we process things’, to use two very modern metaphors of personality typing.

Maybe you’ve never thought of it like that. (more…)

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