Echoing Green Book Club - January 2009

Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beauty to the World - by Paul Hawkin

Hawken traces the formation of the environmental and social justice movement from the beginnings of natural science across years and continents in this rousing and "inadvertently optimistic" call to action.

-Publishers Weekly

Uncharitable: How Restraints on Nonprofits Undermine Their Potential - by Dan Pollotta

Dan Pallotta has written the clearest and most articulate critique I have read of the system of values that our charities and other nonprofit organizations are supposed to follow. He explains in graphic detail how these values undercut what charities are trying to do and prevent them from accomplishing all that they might.

- Derek Bok, former President of Harvard University

Outliers: The Story of Success - by Malcolm Gladwell

Malcolm Gladwell poses a more provocative question in Outliers: why do some people succeed, living remarkably productive and impactful lives, while so many more never reach their potential?

-Amazon.com Review

Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us - by Seth Godin

Seth Godin argues that lasting and substantive change can be best effected by a tribe: a group of people connected to each other, to a leader and to an idea. Smart innovators find or assemble a movement of similarly minded individuals and get the tribe excited by a new product, service or message, often via the Internet (consider, for example, the popularity of the Obama campaign, Facebook or Twitter).

-Publisher's Weekly