AIPG BOOK CLUB
Join the AIPG Book Club!
Upcoming book club meetings are free; AIPG members and their guests are encouraged to join the discussions. The next two meetings are listed below:
June 30, 2021 - 6:00 PM Mountain Time (US & Canada)
Matthew Rhoades hosts: Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know by Malcolm Gladwell
https://zoom.us/j/97415901884?pwd=YU5nd3M4dl NoVlAwNFIvc3FQNzA3QT09
July 29, 2021 at 6:00 PM Mountain Time (US and Canada)
Christine Lilek hosts: Being the Person Your Dog Thinks You Are: The Science Behind a Better You by Jim Davies
https://zoom.us/j/99425255095?pwd=TkZIOVNKSG1 YUFd0Y09WdnlGT2tzQT09
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Brandy Myers, MEM-3175 Dawn Garcia, CPG-8313
Brandy Myers has organized a virtual book club for AIPG members and guests. The lack of in-person meetings sparked the idea of having a book club to foster more interaction and sharing between members in an informal setting. Brandy men- tioned a leadership book that she liked, and quickly generated a list of volunteer presenters who also had some favorite books that dealt with topics such as leadership, communication and management. The book club isn’t limited to these topics, but it was agreed that it would be nice to have multiple books to explore those topics initially.
The first meeting was held on Earth Day, April 22, 2021. Dawn Garcia led a discussion about Thomas Erikson’s book Surrounded by Idiots, which describes and classifies behav- ior into four different groups for a quick method to under- stand and react to different personality types. The author is a Swedish economist who has worked in sales, and, by his own admission, was a very poor manager when young. He was spurred to try to figure out how to work better with others, and he used an existing human behavior model as the basis for this book. The behavior model was initially developed by William Marston in the 1950s and had four divisions: Dominance, Inspiration, Submission and Compliance (DISC), which later evolved into Dominant, Inspiring, Stable and Analytical (DISA). Erickson uses the DISA divisions and colors to represent each group. Most people are a combination of two or more colors. The book explains the traits of each behavior type and discusses the communications styles with lots of examples from the author’s own experiences, with anecdotes written in a lively and amus- ing style. The author emphasizes multiple times that human behavior is complex, and that this method is not a deep dive into psychology, but that many people have been able improve communications with others because they better understand the communication styles and behaviors of others.
About 20 people joined the group for interesting discussions about whether geologists tend to have a personality type, their own experiences dealing with different personalities, and how they have handled difficult situations.
The May 25, 2021meeting was hosted by Brandy Myers. The featured book was Dare to Lead by Brené Brown.
Photo credit: Dawn Garcia
Members who would like to host a meeting are invited to contact AIPG headquarters. Meetings are between 60 and 90 minutes long, and are held using Zoom, which allows for breakout rooms for large groups to split into smaller groups of participants when desired. The host chooses the book and leads the discussion. We hope you will consider joining us for one or more of these upcoming topics!
Jul.Aug.Sep 2021 • TPG 55
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