What we are reading and learning about these days…

BOOKS:

What Michael is reading these days:

  • Leadership and Self-Deception (2010), The Arbinger Institute = For too long, the issue of self-deception has been the realm of deep-thinking philosophers, academics, and scholars working on the central questions of the human sciences. The public remains generally unaware of the issue. That would be fine except that self-deception is so pervasive that it touches every aspect of life. “Touches” is perhaps too gentle a word to describe its influence. Self-deception actually determines one’s experience in every aspect of life. The extent to which it does that – and in particular the extent to which it determines the nature of one’s influence on, and experience of, others – is the subject of this book. …..If you are interested to explore this book more, you can download this 11-page PDF summary here.
  • The Pause Principle (2112), Kevin Cashman =  We live and lead in an increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world. But paradoxically, Kevin Cashman contends that leaders today must not merely act more quickly but pause more deeply. He details a catalytic process to guide you to step back in order to lead forward in three critical growth areas: personal leadership, development of others, and fostering of cultures of innovation. You and your organization will learn to move from management speed and transaction to leadership significance and transformation.  Hear what Kevin has to say about “pause” and leadership capacity view this clip
  • (re-reading) Situated Learning: Legitimate peripheral participation (1991) = In this important theoretical treatise, Jean Lave, anthropologist, and Etienne Wenger, computer scientist, push forward the notion of situated learning–that learning is fundamentally a social process and not solely in the learner’s head. The authors maintain that learning viewed as situated activity has as its central defining characteristic a process they call legitimate peripheral participation. Learners participate in communities of practitioners, moving toward full participation in the sociocultural practices of a community. View the Table of Contents and read the Forward (11 pages) here. Also, read an excerpt PDF here: Lave, Situating learning in communities of practice

What Jean is reading these days:

  • Leadership and Self-Deception (2010), The Arbinger Institute

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