Book Review – Tribal Leadership
Len's Star Rating: 10 out of 10. A phenomenal book on leadership, the best book I’ve read.
Book Review – Start with Why
Len's Star Rating: 9 out of 10. A provocative and optimistic book on living out your purpose and communicating your values in terms of “why.”
Book Review – Good to Great
Len's Star Rating: 10 out of 10. An exceptional book on the principles and practices of highly successful companies and their leaders.
Book Review – Atomic Habits
Len's Star Rating: 10 out of 10. An excellent book on developing positive habits and eliminating negative ones.
Book Review – Let It Go
Len's Star Rating: 8 out of 10. An excellent self-help book on effectively downsizing, decluttering, and dealing with the emotions stirred up in the process.
Book Review – Gunfight
Len's Star Rating: 8 out of 10. A book that is both a memoir and an exposé on the gun industry in America.
Book Review – Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream
Len's Star Rating: 9 out of 10. A challenging and convicting book on Christian faith and living a life of servanthood and sacrifice, which is counter to mainstream American church culture.
Book Review – A New Kind of Christian
Len's Star Rating: 6 out of 10. A work of fiction about two friends who are growing their faith in Jesus beyond mainstream beliefs and practices.
Book Review – There Is No Box
Len's Star Rating: 7 out of 10. A book that explains how to develop a flexible, relatable approach to leading others and shaping your identity as a leader.
Book Review – Searching for Sunday
Len's Star Rating: 8 out of 10. An engaging and challenging book that is both memoir and catharsis of the author’s struggle to find connection and meaning with other Christians and the Church.
Book Review – Boundaries for Your Soul
Len's Star Rating: 9 out of 10. A helpful book on accepting and managing difficult emotions, thoughts, and memories by using a Christian-oriented application of Internal Family Systems (IFS) approaches and interpersonal boundary setting.
Book Review – Educated
Len's Star Rating: 10 out of 10. A collection of life stories and memories of a young woman in her experiences of the transformational power of education, friendships, and choosing self to escape the entrapments of poverty, isolation, and a dysfunctional, abusive family system.
Book Review – Out of the Cave
Len's Star Rating: 8 out of 10. A book on depression from a Christian perspective that effectively addresses mental health stigma and covers a wide range of ideas and natural strategies for addressing depression.
Book Review – Spurgeon’s Sorrows
Len's Star Rating: 9 out of 10. A helpful book that is both enlightening and lyrical in its exploration of depression through the life and sermons of Charles Spurgeon.
Book Review – Blue Like Jazz
Len's Star Rating: 9 out of 10. An unconventional and entertaining book on Christian living that confronts American Christian culture and challenges the reader to authentically pursue a relationship with Jesus.
Book Review – Get Out of That Pit
Len's Star Rating: 6 out of 10. A Christian book that contains humorous reflections and general advice on dealing with difficult life situations.
Book Review – God Longs to Heal You
Len's Star Rating: 4 out of 10. A wide-ranging book with Christian spiritual perspectives on aspects of trauma and negative life events.
Book Review – The Last Arrow
Len's Star Rating: 9 out of 10. A challenging, countercultural book on Christian living that focuses on breaking through mediocrity, living for the future, and leaving no effort undone.
Book Review – I Declare War
Len's Star Rating: 5 out of 10. A book on Christian living with a growth-oriented focus on addressing insecurity and working to develop mindfulness skills.
Book Review – The Hole in Our Gospel
Len's Star Rating: 10 out of 10. A Christian book that describes a gospel message that includes helping the global poor and calls for action from Christians to embrace a faith that is more authentic, demanding, and attractive.