I just wrapped up Mark Batterson’s newest book, Primal – A Quest For The Lost Soul Of Christianity. Overall a great read!
In Primal, Batterson expands on what Jesus called The Greatest Commandment – “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all [...]

So Sunday afternoon I was at Costco for a value lunch (which means $1.50 hot dog and soda, or the free buffet, aka samples). I chose hot dog. 
I tried to take a browsing stroll around Costco, but as always, I ended up in one of two places: electronics, or books. That day it was books.
So [...]

I’m only three chapters in to Organic Leadership: Leading Naturally Right Where You Are, by Neil Cole, but so far, so good… as with the other things I’ve read by him.
Neil Cole is very adept as stripping away the institutional trappings that hinder churches, and see the vibrant power of organic churches – and leaders.
The book centers [...]

I’m just wrapping up The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking(Roger Martin).  The concept of integrative thinking is not new necessarily, but Martin’s research takes in a culmination of over 50 case studies in leadership.  Martin sums up the concept of integrative thinking as ”the ability to hold two conflicting ideas in constructive tension”.  His conclusions [...]

I’m just starting in on Tribes:  We Need You To Lead Us, an interesting looking new book by Seth Godin.  It’s a little tiny thang, so it shouldn’t take too long; I’ll let you know what I think soon.
How did I end up putting this in queue?  Two things:  1)  Seth Godin is an insightful and inventive thinker. 2) The [...]

Ori Brafman (The Starfish and the Spider) and brother Rom Brafman have teamed up on a book that delves into some of the reasoning behind irrational behavior.  Drawing from several case studies and experiments in social behavior, the Brafman’s reveal several of the influencing factors that drive us to make irrational decisions.  A few:

Value Attribution:  The [...]

These aren’t necessarily my very tops for 2008, but off the top of my head, I would have to say they are right up there.
 
Book – Touch, by Rudy Rasmus
The pastor of St. John’s in Houston has written a powerful book chronicling the life of St. John’s; really it’s also an extension of his own [...]

Books about social behavior really interest me – although I often wonder what social dynamics have affected the interpration of the data in books about social behavior!  That sentence probably gives a lot of insight as to why Malcolm Gladwell hasn’t called me for any help lately…
Back to Currently Reading:  I just started Sway: The Irresistable Pull of [...]