Some time ago I saw Henry Cloud speak on the subject of necessary endings in business and life, and it was so engaging and powerful that I took note when he said he was turning it into a book.
Well, the book came out a few months ago and I just got around to reading it…and I wish I hadn’t waited so long. Necessary Endings is a book about how there are seasons to life and work and sometimes we need to end one season to begin another. The challenge, as the book points out, is that we don’t like things to end. Leaders don’t want to fire someone, even when it’s clear it’s not working. People don’t want to leave an unhappy workplace, even though it’s making them miserable. We just don’t like endings. Yet, healthy people understand that endings are necessary.
This book give a great, easy to understand rational for why and how you can get ready for some endings. In particular, Cloud uses the gardening analogy of pruning to help us understand that healthy things need to trimmed back for better and more efficient growth.
There are so many little nuggets in this book that I can’t begin to share them all, so I’ve decided to give away 10 copies to the first few folks who respond that they would like to read this book.
Here’s how: Simply leave a comment or send me a response on FB or Twitter and I’ll be in touch to get your address or email. (As in the past, I only respond to the first 10, so if you don’t hear from me that’s why.)
David Curry
