Thinking for a change.- I am quite convinced that the ability to organise thoughts and the information we possess is one of the keys to effective leadership. John Maxwell clearly excels at this ongoing task. He is also a great advocate of each person making quality thinking time for themselves. That is a subject I run across again and again these days. It’s always difficult to set aside time for prayer, reflection and thinking , but John Maxwell’s book is a great encouragement to do so. Again and again he inspires the reader to effective thinking and the development of ideas. That dimension of leadership is not often stressed as much as it needs to be. John Maxwell has done us a real favour.

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This is the book everyone is talking about. I heard people mention it and read about it in interviews several times before I finally ordered a copy. I was not disappointed even though it’s long and sometimes gets a little bit detailed. Nevertheless the overall themes of the book are far sighted and will provide a grid through which we will see the world for many years to come. I find myself using the phase “The earth is flat” again and again to describe our current international environment, especially when it comes to communications and information technology. The book is not primarily about technology but about the way our world is changing. I think it is a “must read” for people who are trying to understand the way the world is changing and why.

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This book is unforgettable. It’s so unbelievable how the author managed to dictate this book by moving only one eyelid that he could have written a description of his hospital ceiling and it would have been remarkable. What he does manage to write leaves you with such a sense of loss that he didn’t live to write more. His book is like a series of essays, recording his current feelings and observations and remembered experiences. The prose is unbearably real, heartbreakingly beautiful.

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What Brian McLaren offers in A New Kind of Christian, for me, is a breath of fresh air into an often very stale environment. This book tackles everything from looking at how our worldview taints what we see to so “fundamentals” of the Christian faith and where they come from. A New Kind of Christian challenged me to really look at where my views about certain issues came from - and what the Jesus approach to them would be. A book well worth the read!!

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