It’s been 18 months since I’ve done this sort of post – selecting some of the links I’ve collected from internet surfing and I devote it mainly to 2 books which have grabbed my recent attention.
The first is Edgar Schein’s last book – written with his son and published shortly before he died early last year at the glorious age of 95. Schein was one of the most thoughtful and accessible of organisational writers. And the book is Humble Inquiry – the gentle art of asking instead of telling Edgar and Peter Schein (2021) which he presented in this quite brilliant interview. Another of his books was “Humble Consulting” (2016) which was nicely reviewed here – and here The second book is Fiona Hills’s There is nothing for you here – finding opportunity
in the 21st Century (2021) superbly reviewed here. Hill was a miner’s daughter from the North-east of England who, with the insights she had gained from her Russian studies, went on to become a foreign policy adviser to Trump but actually testified against him during his impeachment. She has great interviews about her book – on the New Local site here, with
her tutor, Geoff Parks, here and with the “UK in a Changing Europe” site here which pay tribute to the great support she got from local people and agencies. There was a great discussion about US politics and the impact of the transfer
of power to Harris in this episode of The Rest is Politics which also gave us this discussion about the politics of the Coalition government from 2010-2015
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