A Growing Reading List

Late this afternoon we received a memo from the vice president of the organization, the Human Resources director and the four new Center directors. Attached to the memo was a timeline for the actual mechanics of the transition to the new organization. We have been waiting a long time for this. Some of the items on it were supposed to have been in our hands a month and a half ago. And, as it turns out, during the week that we are supposed to be packing up our offices or cubicles for moving, a colleague and I will be in Vancouver attending Start Up! Start Over!

Our new Center Director suggested that it might be beneficial for both of us to attend the conference as part of our new roles in the organization. Not many days later she stopped by my desk and dropped off a copy of Anthony Pappas' Entering The World of The Small Church, and suggested that the two of us should read it before the conference.

A couple of weeks ago, several folks throughout the organization received from the vice president's office an invitation to participate in a FutureThink seminar based on the book by Edie Weiner and Arnold Brown. A member of my current department ordered copies for both of us.

Earlier this week the Center Director sent out a memo requesting feedback on suggested dates for a retreat for the new Center. Attached was a copy of Joseph F. Coates' article "Scenario Planning."

And somewhere in one of the boxes stored in my cubicle is my copy of Wikinomics, which the Director of my current department ordered for each of us some over a year ago after the new vice president had mentioned it during one of their meetings. I suppose I ought to dig it out and add it to the "read really soon" pile.

Looks like I won't be needing my book of Sudoku puzzles on the train for the next couple of weeks.

Peace,
Jeffri