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The Good Year – Making the Most...
What are good years for? We spend much of our lives preparing for or adjusting to difficult times, seeking resilience to adversity and strong recovery in the aftermath. But what should we do when conditions are favorable - when pressure eases, opportunities widen, and there is room to build, invest, strengthen, or prepare? The Good Year explores that overlooked question.
Here, the "good year" is not simply a year of prosperity or good fortune. It is a metaphor for any period in which circumstances create room - room to make choices, build capabilities, deepen relationships, prepare for the future, and shape what comes next. Drawing on examples from public systems, organizations, and personal life, The Good Year shows that favorable periods are often misunderstood.
They are misread as permanent, consumed too quickly, or allowed to drift away without creating lasting value. Part reflection, part framework, and part practical guide, The Good Year argues that the true measure of favorable times is not how comfortable they are, but what they leave behind. At its heart, the book is about judgment: recognizing the room that life occasionally creates and using it, gradually and deliberately, to build a future that is stronger, wiser, and less fragile than the present.
Getting It Done: The Craft of readine...
How do intentions become action? How ready are we, really, to make that happen? Plans are made. Commitments are announced. Resources are committed. But too often, little moves — or what does move cannot be sustained. Clear, practical, and grounded in real-world experience, Getting It Done offers a new way to understand why some efforts move while others stall — and what it takes to change that.
The Men Do Not Eat Wings – A No...
Set in Kenya and spanning almost three centuries from the pre-colonial 1700s to the turbulent 1990s, The Men Do Not Eat Wings tells the intertwined stories of eight men from five generations of a Luo family: Nwanji, Oweh, Osewe, Ang’awa, Luka, Boro, Okello, and Sakawa. In 1999, one of them, Luka, a successful farmer and businessman in western Kenya, is brutally murdered.
A poor squatter on Luka’s farm is arrested and charged with committing the crime. But at Luka’s funeral, why does his widow seem to suggest that Luka might have done something that contributed to his death? The answer lies partly in Luka’s recent business dealings and the complicated relationships that underpinned them.
The answer also lies in Luka’s entanglement in sinister tribalistic political schemes that soon draw in his son, Sakawa, and his brother, Okello. But most of all, the answer lies in Luka’s family history and Luo culture – both of which are marked by male dominance, bravery, violence, ambition, and love.
At the Center of the World In Ethiopi...
This is a non-fiction book set in contemporary Ethiopia describing major aspects of the humanitarian and development work in a huge and hugely important African country. Major global themes and issues play out in the cut and thrust of the day to day work of the narrator, a senior UN official leading a major operation in the country.