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Source: Albuquerque Journal, N.迷利倉M.Jan. 05--Imagine a book club where no reading is required and practical concepts from books are distilled for almost immediate application. You just dreamed up the The Totally Unconventional Business Book Club at Convivium Coworking, which meets about once a month, where one person presents highlights of a book and the group discusses whatever interesting ideas are generated.Deborah Reese, catalyst and founder at Convivium Coworking, got participants thinking as she described the concepts in Malcolm Gladwell's "The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference," recently over a lunch break at the coworking offices on Anaheim NE."Change happens at a dramatic tipping point," she says of the book's theme. "There's no orderly geometric progression."Like a health epidemic, successful ideas spread through people who connect us and promote our ideas until they become widespread, a tipping point, she explains.From there she encouraged the group of about 30, some who are professionally acquainted, while others are strangers, to think of people who embody Gladwell's "Law of the Few," an economic idea, sometimes known as the 80/20 principle, that in most situations 20 percent of the participants do 80 percent of the work.Some of those effective few connect people, while others inform and still others persuade.Many identified a business associate who connected them all with others, kind of like an Albuquerque six-degrees of separation, a theory that everyone is six or fewer steps away, by way of introduction, from any other person in the world.Relating the book to their personal experience sparked more conversation, the goal of the structured networking event.The book club always sheds light on some aspect of his business or life, says attendee Don Hanna, head of Bladewerx in Rio Rancho: "It exposes me to books I might not know about, concepts I might not know about. It's like someone recommending books to you, but better. I run a small business, so I'm always looking for ways to do that better."Going deeperReese chose the Gladwell book because reading it caused her to think in new ways: "I looked at things in a new light."At ease and relaxed in front of the crowd, Reese has presented several other books and says the experience is eye-opening: "I've found a huge value being a presenter. I go back and reread the book and I'm stunned at the new level of depth and understanding I find."The book club was an obvious offshoot of the coworking environment, she says. "We get to share in the joy of learning, for the sake of learning."Conventional book clubs have a problem. Although everyone is expected to have read the book that's up for discussion, sometimes people don't, she says."Th迷你倉t seems like a waste of time. If one of us presents a book we love, people can walk away with a snapshot, knowing whether they want to read it or not. This way everyone is equal. We can all discuss the juiciest parts of the book," Reese says.For the past year about 30 or so people have gathered every month for the book club, announced on Meetup, a social networking website for offline meetings, and on the Convivium Coworking website.One of the organizers, Susana Rinderle, who has her own consulting business for diversity training and shares space at Convivium, says the book club provides a great opportunity to learn something new from a book that might not have appealed to her: "It's super efficient. You get the benefit of the book, without having to read it."Besides, she enjoys the company of her colleagues: "They're bright, funny and into a lot of cool stuff."Although books on business and careers are the topic, any book that supports those is fair game for the club, she says.For example, this month, she's presenting Daniel H. Pink's "A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future," because it offers ways of incorporating creative thought with more traditional linear thinking styles, she says."I'm a big fan of his. He's ahead of the curve," she says. " He's hilarious."Another organizer, Renee Giraudo Holmes, a mechanical engineer who also works at Bladewerx in Rio Rancho, says the book club always stimulates some new thought: "It really helps me in my professional life. Every time I go, there are aha moments for me. I'm 29. I appreciate the experienced business professionals there. I learn a lot from them."Clifton Chadwick, chief executive officer of KeepItQuerque, an alliance of local businesses, says he's presented a few of his favorite books to the club.He likes the book club because "it's an opportunity to walk the talk and to engage with like-minded people in a different way of doing things."But that doesn't mean the discussions get boring: "We are like-minded to certain degrees and different in others." Go UnconventionalThe next meeting of The Totally Unconventional Business Book Club is at Convivium Coworking, 5924 Anaheim NE, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Jan. 22.Susana Rinderle, a diversity training consultant and Convivium member, who has also been a TEDxABQ speaker, will present "A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future," by Daniel H. Pink.The event is free, but registration is suggested. Everyone is welcome and can bring a lunch, if they choose. Visit conviviumcoworking.com/ events for information.Copyright: ___ (c)2014 the Albuquerque Journal (Albuquerque, N.M.) Visit the Albuquerque Journal (Albuquerque, N.M.) at .abqjournal.com Distributed by MCT Information Services自存倉