Books

Leadership is Global

Co-creating a Humane and Sustainable World
The first independent, globally designed book on "global leadership" by GLN, featuring the writings of 22 distinguished co-authors from all around the world.

Media and Identity in Africa

By Kimani Njogu and John F. M. Middleton. Incorporating both African and international perspectives, Media and Identity in Africa demonstrates how media outlets are used to perpetuate, question, or modify the unequal power relations between Africa and the rest of the world.

Healing the Wound: Personal Narratives about the 2007 Post-Election Violence in Kenya

By Kimani Njogu. The narratives collected by Twaweza Communications in this volume tell yet another side of the story about the violence that engulfed Kenya towards the end of 2007 and the beginning of 2008.

Getting Heard: [Re]claiming Performance Space in Kenya

By Kimani Njogu. Getting Heard: (Re)claiming Performance Space is the third in a series of publications on art, culture and society released by Twaweza Communications. The aim is to bring to the fore conversations taking place in Kenya about identity, creativity, nationalism and the generation of knowledge.

Creating Wealth: Growing Local Economies with Local Currencies

By Gwendolyn Hallsmith and Bernard Lietaer. Creating Wealth demonstrates how a healthy society can be attained through developing new systems of exchange. Using creative initiatives such as time banks, systems of barter and exchange, and local currencies, cities and towns can empower themselves and build vibrant, healthy, sustainable local economies.

The Future of Money: Creating New Work, Wealth and a Wiser World

By Bernard Lietaer. A devastating analysis of how and why society depends on money. Money affects every area of life both for the individual and for business, socially, politically and economically. Clear-sighted, intellectually challenging, inspirational and controversial.

Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World

By Ronald A. Heifetz, Marty Linsky, and Alexander Grashow.The Practice of Adaptive Leadership is a hands-on, practical guide containing stories, tools, diagrams, cases, and worksheets to help you develop your skills as adaptive leader, able to take people outside their comfort zones and assess and address the toughest challenges.

The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future

By Riane Eisler. The phenomenal bestseller, with more than 500,000 copies sold worldwide, now with a new epilogue from the author—The Chalice and the Blade has inspired a generation of women and men to envision a truly egalitarian society by exploring the legacy of the peaceful, goddess-worshipping cultures from our prehistoric past.

Training the Mind for Leadership: Releasing Our Human Potential While Working

By Arnaud Maitland. Unlocking the power of mind and applying it to genuine leadership is a dynamic process of penetrating and unfolding, of deepening and allowing, guided by the wish to create value and express it, trusting that benefits will manifest over time.

Living Without Regret: Growing Old in the Light of Tibetan Buddhism

By Arnaud Maitland. Coming to terms with the loss of a loved one is a major life challenge. In this moving book the author, a longtime practitioner and teacher of Tibetan Buddhism, reveals how his grief over his mother's death, who had been an Alzheimer's patient for many years, deepened his ability to apply the Buddhism and Skillful Means teachings in his own life.