Bøker av Gus Gordon

Gus Gordon's The Last Peach is the story of two indecisive bugs contemplating eating the last peach of the summer in a hilarious picture book about anticipation and expectation. Summer's almost over, and there's one peach left. There's also one big question in the air: Should someone eat it? What if it's rotten inside?But what if it's juicy?Should the bug who saw it first get to eat it?Should both bugs share it with their friends?Will anyone eat the peach?! EVER?!?

For fans of Philip and Erin Stead and I Walk with Vanessa comes a tender, gently adventurous gem, with a reassuring message about the power of friends to soothe aches big and small.

Gus Gordon is officially a Catholic priest who preaches on weekends for Food for the Poor. In effect, however, he is "atopia" (unclassifiable) who aspires to the freedom of life in the manner of Ikkyu, Rabelais and Thomas Merton. The thread connecting this tradition is "simply being a human being." The motto set for his tombstone is: "If you are not for yourself, who will be? If you are only for yourself, who are you? If not now, when?" (Rabbi Hillel).

This book proposes that the key ingredient to effective leadership is trust and that leaders must earn the trust of their colleagues to be successful. The author uses his experience as a CEO in Mexico, a low trust society, as the basis of his model of trust leadership, which incorporates empathy and servant leadership principles.