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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” ‘The character of God, the beauty of His personhood, the expression of His goodness’- these are God’s traits that he longs to share with us. What would the world look like – what would we look like – if we became like Him? This is the ultimate destination, write Erwin, to become the person God dreams of and to share those dreams with others”

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