In the book, "Crucial conversations: tools for talking when stakes are high", the authors has offered us guidelines on the followings: 1) we need to focus on what we really want; 2) learn how to notice safety is at risk; 3) learn how to make it safe to talk about almost anything; 4) learn how … Continue reading How do we have “crucial conversations”
Leadership and Management
“Crucial Conversations: tools for talking when stakes are high”, the book you may need
Many people including Christians ourselves expect that we Christians should be nice persons. People also expect clergies must be nice persons. I believe that Christians including clergies have been gifted with the Holy Spirit, enabling them to bear fruit of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. It does not means we are … Continue reading “Crucial Conversations: tools for talking when stakes are high”, the book you may need
Jim Fisher’s “The Thoughtful Leader: A Model of Integrative Leadership”
Jim Fisher is a professor emeritus at the University of Toronto. In this book, Jim Fisher teaches leaders to simultaneously, consistently, and coherently manage, direct and engage their followers. He provides a model of integrative leadership and explain each components and their relationship clearly: Managing (plan, organize, control), Directing(vision, alignment and motivation) and Engaging (values, … Continue reading Jim Fisher’s “The Thoughtful Leader: A Model of Integrative Leadership”
Joe Calloway’s “Keep It Simple: Unclutter Your Mind to Uncomplicate Your Life”
Cluttered processes and over-complications are the enemies of control in our life. In this book, Joe Calloway offers us two powerful tools to streamline our life, reduce stress, and achieve our goals: simplification and focus. Joe wrote, "Focus means clarity. Clarity means knowing what is most important...Getting focused is the path to simplicity, and simplicity … Continue reading Joe Calloway’s “Keep It Simple: Unclutter Your Mind to Uncomplicate Your Life”
Michael H. Hoppe’s “Active Listening: Improving Your Ability To Listen And Lead”
Although it published by the Center for Creative Leadership is written for leaders is for everyone. We all need to learn to be an effective listening. Although this book is very thin (less than 30 pages), it effectively describes the six components of active listening: paying attention, suspending judgement, reflecting, clarifying, summarizing and sharing. If … Continue reading Michael H. Hoppe’s “Active Listening: Improving Your Ability To Listen And Lead”