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Firms of Endearment
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Firms of Endearment

By Raj Sisodia, David Wolfe and Jag Sheth

October 15, 2019

Editor's Note: The organizations who recognize that doing good is good business are becoming the ultimate value creators. They’re changing their culture and generating every form of value that matters:...
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Doing Good Great
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Doing Good Great

By Doug Balfour

October 15, 2019

Editor’s note: The target of this book is international donors. Our foundation is very limited in that area and so I must warn that few of us reading this blog...
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Change Your Questions Change Your Life
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Change Your Questions Change Your Life

By Marilee Adams

October 15, 2019

Editor's Note: I'm not much for parables and the story in this book is no exception. But the learning, the very idea of Question Thinking is very powerful for me....
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Callings
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Callings

By David Isay

October 15, 2019

Editor’s note: Before every business plan, I ask my students/friends/employees to first write a life plan so that their work will match their purpose. In this incredibly readable and enjoyable...
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Being Mortal
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Being Mortal

By Atul Gawande

October 15, 2019

Editor's note: As stated in the blog its a tough but fascinating read. Gawande shares his experience as a surgeon with a human, personal touch and his growing skill as...
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Begging for Change: The Dollars and Sense of Making Nonprofits Responsive, Efficient, and Rewarding for All
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Begging for Change: The Dollars and Sense of Making Nonprofits Responsive, Efficient, and Rewarding for All

By Robert Egger

October 15, 2019

Editor's Note: Robert Eggar, a close friend of my DC relatives who have worked in his kitchen once a week since it opened, points out in his book that the...
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A Path Appears
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A Path Appears

By Nicholas Kristoff and Sheryl WuDunn

October 15, 2019

Editor’s Note: This is the book I would be able to write if I had 10 times the experience I have at this time. Every interest I’ve had, it seems,...
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A Message to Garcia
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A Message to Garcia

By Elbert Hubbard

October 15, 2019

Editor’s Note: The entire three page book can be read in this file as it is in the public domain. Seems maybe it always was since the author gave rights...
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The Warmth of Other Suns
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The Warmth of Other Suns

By Isabel Wilkerson

October 15, 2019

by Isabel Wilkerson Book Link Editor’s Note: Wilkerson is a first time book writer but a Pulitzer Prize winning feature writer for the New York Times. This epic non-fiction work...
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Nicaragua: Living in the Shadow of the Eagle
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Nicaragua: Living in the Shadow of the Eagle

By Thomas Walker and Christine Wade

October 15, 2019

Editor’s Note: Our foundation helped International Partners in Mission (IPM) create its “international immersion experience” program as a way to generate unrestricted revenue in order to sustain and expand its...
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Churchill by Himself
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Churchill by Himself

By Richard Langworth

October 15, 2019

Editor’s note: I’ve often wondered how Winston Churchill could be so often quoted, and now I know. He wrote over 15,000,000 million published words – books, speeches, articles, letters and...
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Boomerang
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Boomerang

By Michael Lewis

October 15, 2019

Editor’s Note: This irreverent “journey through the new Third World” by Lewis is at once vastly entertaining and concerning. Within the past year or so, he visits Iceland, Ireland, Greece,...
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Poke the Box
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Poke the Box

By Seth Godin

October 15, 2019

Editor’s Note: Seth’s first popular book, “Permission Marketing” was a guide for me as we ramped WorkPlace Media into a national permission database media. I’ve since enjoyed “Purple Cow” particularly...
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The Bond
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The Bond

By Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, Rameck Hunt, and Margaret Bernstein

October 15, 2019

Editor’s Note: The Bond by the “Three Doctors,” is a continuation of their first book, The Pact. In The Pact, Sampson Davis, George Jenkins and Rameck Hunt tell how they...
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Bernadette Noll
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Bernadette Noll

April 25, 2019

I Want to Age Like Sea Glass As I hit 49... I want to age like sea glass. Smoothed by tides, not broken. I want the currents of life to...
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East of Eden
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East of Eden

By John Steinbeck

April 25, 2019

Editor’s Comment: A friend tells me that at least once a year good readers should read a classic. I took her advice and reached back for this one. Though less famous...
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The Circle
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The Circle

By Dave Eggers

March 27, 2019

Editor's Comment:   If you are not a fan of satire, and i am generally not, this is a tough read. But reading it six years after its publication makes...
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Just Sit
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Just Sit

By Sukey and Elizabeth Novogratz

January 24, 2019

Editor’s Comment:   I like to think my life was “saved” by Amy Skerry and Paul Gellman who led me to meditation practice back in the 1990s.  The stress of...
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The Fifth Risk
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The Fifth Risk

By Michael Lewis

December 31, 2018

Editor’s Comments:  The joy of reading Lewis’ latest book is that obscure details are made interesting. That is, the author takes us into three fairly unknown and misunderstood departments of...
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Capitalism Without Capital
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Capitalism Without Capital

By Jonathon Haskell and Stian Westlake

November 29, 2018

Editor’s Comments:  You must bring at least an interest in economics to this reading or it’s pretty tough. I’m not business trained for economics but have interest enough to have...
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The Power of Full Engagement
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The Power of Full Engagement

By Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz

October 26, 2018

Editor’s Comments:  Thanks, David Levine, for sending me this book.  I stumbled onto the “whole man theory” in my 20s and later shared it with my adolescent children by having...
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