You should read it because it will help you imagine a more positive future for yourself and your kids and their kids and their kids.

And brown’s book proposes what I see as a viable alternative to the current world order. The world needs new ways of thinking about leaders, leadership and change. She was previously in the margins and can now be placed at the centre. You should read this book too, just to repair the fact that you don’t already know about Octavia Butler, and her importance as a thinker and person. To tap into the most ancient systems and patterns for wisdom as we build tomorrow.” adrienne maree brown, Emergent Strategy “To apply natural order and our love of life to the ways we create the next world. “This book is for people who want to radically change the world,” brown writes. She proposed a satisfying response to my inner questioning on page four of her introduction. It’s inspired partly by the work of Octavia Butler, an African-American woman who wrote science fiction at a time when the genre was dominated by white men.Īnd how, exactly, can science fictional stories inspire a book of cultural commentary? That’s what I was asking myself when I first picked up a copy of brown’s book. Originality is a hard-to-find quality in today’s cluttered landscape of business books. She knows her words will make perfect sense to the exact people she wants to talk to.

She trusts that the right organisms will hear her strange call. She writes it the way she knows it to be true. And that’s why I love it so much!īrown is a Detroit-based activist, healer, thinker, and writer. It just won’t sit still in any one category. I see it as a business book, a parenting guide, a writing inspiration, or a self-help manual. But it doesn’t fit comfortably into that category, and in fact, it doesn’t fit into any one category at all. And that’s exactly why you should add her recent book to your 2019 TBR listĪ weird mix of poetry, essay, self-help, and manifesto for the future, adrienne maree brown’s 2017 book can be found in the “cultural commentary” section of the bookstore. Adrienne maree brown’s writing is like none you’ve ever read before.

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