By Tom Rath
Reviewed by: Elizabeth Chapin (www.chapin.com)
Rath’s Vital Friends: The People You Can’t Afford to Live Without
is a useful resource for your Three is Enough group, especially as you first get started. Vital Friends sets the stage for developing healthy friendships, as well as identifying key roles you may play in other’s lives. As we shift to thinking about spirituality for the sake of others, Rath helps us remember it’s not all about me. We have been inundated with leadership and self-help books that keep us squarely focused on ourselves and how we can be a better person/leader. Rath focuses on relationships and quotes Roosevelt saying, “Today we are faced with the pre-eminent fact that, if civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships.” Read more…
