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ivanssister's review
2.0
I read this for a work-based book club. I selected it based on its title, thinking that as a corporate remote employee who has spent the last few years working from home and feeling sort of disconnected, this might help with tangible ways to create community.
This was much more a book of case studies and examples, and much more focused on how-to from a leadership perspective. I can suggest some of the things that struck me from this book, but since I don't lead a team, I can't just go out and start doing them.
In the end, this felt like every other business book out there, the optimization of the self, ignoring the broader societal things at play. I don't really feel like I left with actual tools or skills that I could really use.
This was much more a book of case studies and examples, and much more focused on how-to from a leadership perspective. I can suggest some of the things that struck me from this book, but since I don't lead a team, I can't just go out and start doing them.
In the end, this felt like every other business book out there, the optimization of the self, ignoring the broader societal things at play. I don't really feel like I left with actual tools or skills that I could really use.
crum_93's review
informative
slow-paced
3.5
This took me a LONG time to finish. As an audiobook it was very slow (even at a sped-up pace), but had some definite gems in it that can be used by leaders and members of different types of communities.
campbelltaral's review
informative
medium-paced
3.0
Title should read: Mastering Community *In the Workplace*. The subtitle "the surprising ways coming together moves us from surviving to thriving" adds to the misleading idea that the book is about building community in general; it's not. If you have to come together on a daily basis, ie: the workplace, the book's info is relevant. But if you picked it up thinking this is great timing for pandemic-stricken and broken communities, eh, not so much.
The pre-reqs needed to implement the strategies depends on power (management, authority) and people routinely forced to come together (the workplace).
The pre-reqs needed to implement the strategies depends on power (management, authority) and people routinely forced to come together (the workplace).
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