For the third year in a row, we’re blessed with a reading list featuring “great reads from the past 12 months” by our good friend, Scott Shaum. I believe I was originally connected to Scott via a mutual friend, Donna, who has a passion for member care. She’s volunteered *profoundly* for the organization I lead (Team Expansion) and recently *also* has picked up working member care for a very missions-active local church in Joplin, MO. She introduced me to Scott and somehow, the next thing you know, he was sharing his reading list for the past year. What I *like* about it is that it’s always heavy on issues that relate to member care, but also broad enough to pull in a wide swath of issues, both global and domestic. I believe you’ll find it both compelling and enticing again in 2008. Scott wrote, “This year’s list is broken into several sections hopefully to be of help in making choices. I begin with a list of the best books I read, then have provided annotated comments below from these books and others. There are some titles I read that I did not put on this list as I am not convinced their worth your time or money. Please do realize that these are my opinions and heavily influenced by my own journey.”
In case you want to purchase any of these books, we’ll include links to them from Amazon. Just click on the image of the book/cover beside each item of this edition of Brigada Today. [Disclaimer: A portion of the purchase price will then be donated back to Brigada as a gift from Amazon.com. However, this does not raise the purchaser’s price. In other words, if you purchase the book from Amazon, you’ll pay the same price either way. At least using these links, Brigada gets a small donation out of the deal and you end up with the book for the same price. In the past couple of years, this gift has averaged around $50. It’s like Scott’s chance to give something to the whole Brigada family while he makes a gift to Brigada too! :-) ]
So with that as an intro, we’ll thank Scott once again and — on with the show!
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