This is a great book! It is easy-to-read, engaging and, at times, amusing. John Renesch has captured the essence and magnitude of the choices of our awakening consciousness and what it means for humanity.
I am very grateful for the breadth and depth of concepts and topics covered, reflecting where we have been and clearly lays out the context for the future. John makes the distinctions and offers a lens for our choices without introducing the polarities of dogmas. He issues an invitation for how each of us can move forward with a sense of an expansive hope and profound responsibility.
This is a must-read for everyone and I wholeheartedly recommend it as mandatory reading for every executive and elected official. It makes for an outstanding catalyst for discussion and dialogue in a wide variety of settings: meetings, retreats, conferences and facilitated peer groups such as Vistage. If you are a leader or work with leaders, it is incumbent on us to be informed and to make conscious choices. This book lays the ground and framework for us to do just that: It provides the context, a comprehensive worldview, for what it means to be a leader and take action. So if you are disillusioned about our ability to lead and wondering “what’s it all about?” and “how can I make a real and lasting difference?”, this book is for you.
Parents and teachers take note: I also highly recommend it to broaden the perspectives of young people and it would make an outstanding contribution to social studies/sociology classes at the high school and college levels.
Here are a few of the comprehensive content areas that I particularly appreciated:
* The relevance today for the tenets and values that are the root cause of the founding of the United States and that their true meaning has been lost.
* The critical interdependence of all aspects of our human experience: business, government and personal development that we tend to ignore.
* How we each make a contribution to the state of the world whether we lead, follow or get out of the way.
Finally, I have wanted a book to share my world-view with my 88 year-old mother who experienced the Great Depression and WWII and worked and raised us through the massive social changes of the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s. This is it. She is getting a copy for Mother’s Day. John Renesch, thank you for this gift.