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WHAT WE ARE READING ![Book]](images/BookoIcon4Web.gif)
The following is a list of works we have found interesting and recommend to you either professionally or personally.
For Your Professional Interests
- Making Questions Work: a guide to how and what to ask for facilitators, consultants, managers, coaches, and educators - Dorothy Strachan
This book provides a road map for group processes by building facilitators' and managers' capacity to ask the right questions in any situation. With over 1700 questions, you can find one to borrow or adapt to improve your inquiry skills. It also provides clear frameworks that identify when, where and why particular questions are most useful.
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Bridges Out of Poverty - Ruby K. Payne, Philip DeVol;
Terie Dreussi Smith
This book offers many insights into building the bridge out of poverty; it analyzes the language register, the hidden rules among classes and the matriarch role in generational poverty. It also teaches strategies for working with people in poverty. Crisis Assistance Ministry staff has used this book to learn about strategies for working with people in poverty; Mecklenburg County’s Department of Social Services is also working to incorporate these strategies into its work.
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The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations -
Ori Brafman & Rod Beckstrom
What do the Apache Tribal Nation, AA, Craigslist and Skype have in common? According to Brafman and Beckstrom – decentralized leadership; Thus, each has the organizational strength to last in perpetuity. Brafman and Beckstrom examine organizations that were able to survive a myriad of hazardous circumstances. The book is filled with easy-to-understand examples of what worked and why.
Online Resources
- Harvard University - Center on the Developing Child Website
Drawing on the full breadth of intellectual resources available across Harvard University’s schools and affiliated hospitals, the Center on the Developing Child generates, translates, and applies knowledge in the service of improving life outcomes for children in the United States and throughout the world.
We look to the Center on the Developing Child for current, informative videos and articles regarding cutting edge research on early childhood development.
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The Frameworks Institute
The Frameworks Institute makes available its research and recommendations for framing public conversations and building public will regarding a wide range of social issues - including education, race, early childhood development, health, budgets & taxes, and more.
For Your Personal Interests
- Nine Lives: death and life in New Orleans - Dan Baum
This book is a wonderful example of people with passion for their neighborhood and heritage building their community. It explores New Orleans through the lives of nine characters over 40 years, bracketed by two epic hurricanes. It brings back to life the doomed city, its wondrous subcultures, through the rich and colorful lives of the nine people it follows.
WHAT WE ARE WRITING
We have also created some interesting works of our own. Check them out!
- From Problem to Possibility
This article introduces Appreciative Inquiry and the art of reframing a conversation into a positive context while moving toward the desired result.
- Brain Architecture
We hope our clients learn about our core beliefs and the value of collaboration when we work with them. We also glean various facts and theories from our clients. This article reflects on an innovative, emerging theory regarding the importance of early childhood experiences on your brain’s wiring.
- What Time Is it In Your Community?
These tough economic times have cause stress and strain on nearly every industry. In some cases, companies and individuals are withdrawing from their communities. This article highlights the importance of thinking about stepping back and looking at the whole to see what will bring us through this crisis.
- Setting Out on the Right Path for Engaging Your Stakeholders
This article is a “Must Read” for anyone considering stakeholder engagement,. IT wildl help you realize what you are really after when seeking stakeholder input and if that is the right path to get your desired result.
- What About Leadership
Leadership can be defined in many ways; this article will give you a better understanding of how we see leadership at The Lee Institute.
NEWSLETTERS
The Lee Institute publishes a quarterly newsletter;
here are our prior issues.
- 2010 Newsletters
- 2009 Newsletters
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