“Life is negotiation”, every time you want something you are negotiating says Chris Voss. Voss is a former FBI hostage negotiator and founded the Black Swan Group which offers training to individuals and business in negotiating tactics. This book provides stories on high-stakes negotiations, and provides many lessons and principles […]
Books
Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World, Katharine Hayhoe, Simon & Shuster, New York, 2021
Katharine Hayhoe, a Canadian, an evangelical Christian and a professor of climate science now teaching in Texas, is one the most effective communicators on climate change. Hayhoe has found that the most important thing we can do to address climate change is talk about it—and she wants to teach us […]
The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet, Michael E. Mann, Public Affairs, New York 2021
I am a strong advocate for policies that will reduce, and eventually eliminate, the carbon emissions that are the cause of global climate change and global warming. Michael Mann is one of the most pre-eminent climatologists and also one of the most authoritative and engaged experts on climate change issues. […]
Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad, Michela Wrong, Harper Collins, London, 2021
While working for the World Bank, and later the Rwanda Government, I visited Rwanda a number of times. My impression of Kigali, in particular, was as a safe, clean and rapidly modernizing city. A pleasant surprise from other African cities and countries I had visited. I read a lot about […]
Africa’s Winds of Change: Memoirs of an International Tanzanian, Al Noor Kassum, I.B. Tauris, London 2007
I read an obituary recently for Al Noor Kassum, who passed away in 2021, and discovered he had written a book which I was excited to obtain and read. I was hired by Al Noor Kassum in the late 1980s when he was Tanzania’s Minister of Energy to come to […]