By: Mary Pandiani on September 3, 2015
When Good to Great came out in 2001, the hype of the book extended all the way to a growing church in Gig Harbor, Washington. Our Executive Pastor who loved all things Patrick Lencioni, Stephen Covey, and John Maxwell decided we, as a staff, needed to read the Jim Collins’ book together. The concepts of…
By: Colleen Batchelder on September 3, 2015
One must demand the right for truth. The reader must demand the right to transform. If we simply read to be entertained or appeased, then our obtainment becomes nothing more than ignorance and indoctrination. Adler makes a stunning declaration regarding this apathetic crisis in our culture. “Many readers, and most particularly those who view current…
By: Aaron Peterson on September 3, 2015
How To Read A Book by Adler and Doren is a fantastic book on the many rules and steps to reading intelligently. Due to the amount of minutiae though, I constantly found myself feeling the same way one does when watching a Ken Burns documentary on the United States Congress. The majority of people would…
By: Jason Kennedy on September 3, 2015
I will be the first to admit that when I saw that I was assigned a book entitled, How to Read a Book, I was a little frustrated. After all, I am a highly skilled and highly educated man who has read plenty of books. Certainly, this would be a waste of time and energy to read…
By: Pablo Morales on September 3, 2015
“How to Read a Book” was first published in 1940. After three decades of unexpected success and two years before I was born, Mortimer Adler published a new edition with the help of Charles Van Doren in order to approach the art of reading in a more holistic way. This approach resulted in a series…
By: Phillip Struckmeyer on September 3, 2015
Good Great Power Good to Great is a fascinating study of how companies who have settled into and exist with a good enough mentality, culture, and results can experience the awakening of becoming great. From a researched based study, author Jim Collins and an extensive team of researchers, assesses, evaluate, and compare twenty-eight companies to learn…
By: Phil Goldsberry on September 2, 2015
I thought it was interesting that the first book of the required reading was a book dealing with “speed” and comprehension. Understandably the book was “How to Read a Book” by Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren, but I thought that was a given. Yet as I delved into the pages, at not quite snails pace,…
By: Nick Martineau on September 2, 2015
I remember reading Good to Great by Jim Collins during my Business undergrad days at Baylor. It’s a classic book and I wish I had a dime for every time I’ve heard someone say, “start by getting the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right…
By: Marc Andresen on September 2, 2015
The book by Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren, How to Read a Book, definitely qualifies as a “how to” book, and it has many practical helps. After reading it, I have a new appreciation for how challenging it must be to write such a volume without making it feel like a Saharan adventure. Although…
By: Dave Young on August 31, 2015
I’m a sucker for contrarian insight and paradoxes; it seems Jim Collins, author of Good to Great, is as well. The author advocates that the best leaders—what he calls “L-5 leaders”—have a duality. They are “modest and willful, humble and fearless;” characteristics that don’t seem to fit together (although Moses comes to mind.) [1] Collins…
By: Travis Biglow on June 19, 2015
The Trilogy of Hong Kong June 18, 15 I was raised in the inner city of South L.A. (formally South Central Los Angeles) and at a high school that did not really get into world events. I graduated in 1981 and I can’t believe that Hong Kong was under British sovereignty until 1997. It is…
By: Carol McLaughlin on June 19, 2015
Anticipation. No I am not referring to the commercial playing that song in the background whilst a cup of coffee is poured. Although, thankfully, as I write I do have a cup of coffee beside me! By anticipation I am simply referring to our upcoming Advance. The anticipation for our time together is building. Truthfully…
By: Richard Volzke on June 19, 2015
Hong Kong is a city where Eastern and Western cultures collide. Asian culture flourished for hundreds of years before the British took possession of Hong Kong in 1841. For 156 years, the city was under British colonial rule.[1] During that time period, two different cultures interacted with each other. On some level, a new subculture…
By: Dawnel Volzke on June 19, 2015
With an upcoming trip to Hong Kong, Louie’s book Hong Kong Culture: Word and Image, provides some context and a baseline of understanding that will help me to make sense of my experience. My knowledge of Hong Kong culture has come through my clouded American lens, and I’m sure is distorted by media exposure and…
By: rhbaker275 on June 19, 2015
The reading Hong Kong Culture: Word and Image[1] edited by Kam Louie rounds out a trilogy of readings in preparation for a Hong Kong academic advance. The advance is an element in the DMin course of study with George Fox Evangelical Seminar that provides an encounter with local culture from a global perspective. The readings…
By: Bill Dobrenen on June 18, 2015
In Hong Kong Culture,[1] editor Kam Louie takes his readers on a ride through the social expressions of several different authors, poets, film directors, linguists, and essayists into the new Hong Kong – Xianggang. The social commentary here does not hold back on its emotion, criticism, and reaction to events that have transpired in this…
By: Telile Fikru Badecha on June 18, 2015
Reading Kam Louise’s editorial book, Hong Kong Culture: Word and Image, raised my expectations about the upcoming advance in Hong Kong. Admittedly, as unfamiliar as I am with the Hong Kong’s history before and after 1997, the essays offer very informative and fascinating analytical insights illustrating the social and cultural life of Hong Kong. As…
By: Mitch Arbelaez on June 18, 2015
There we stood. My bride and I of only seven years looking over the beautiful harbor into the picturesque landscape that is the romantic Hong Kong Harbor. We had just lead another large youth team into China where we ministered and delivered Bibles. It was a wonderful trip through four cities and our final stop was…
By: Brian Yost on June 18, 2015
While reading Kam Louie’s book Hong Kong Culture: Word and Image, three inter-related thoughts kept coming to mind. The first was liminality, but since others from our cohort “called dibs”, I’ll just focus on the other two. Global City As I learn more about Hong Kong, I am reminded that large cities share certain…
By: Liz Linssen on June 18, 2015
“Hong Kong has been a cultural fault-line for centuries — first, as a colonial space wrested from the Qing empire by the British and second, as a prize won back by the government of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). In this shaky geopolitical terrain, Hong Kong found its firm cultural ground and became a…
