13 Ways to Kill Your Community is lively, full of personality, conversational, breezy, succinct, and fun. One can imagine readers seeking out information on boosting their local community sighing dutifully as they seek out material and then being relieved and delighted when what they find turns out to be as entertaining as it is informative.
The information provided is sometimes startling and often positively revelatory. The anecdotes and examples are delivered with wit and a little bit of a dishy factor. But underneath all the fun is a clear breadth of experience, and a no-nonsense, practical approach to community building, which can be easily grasped. 13 Ways to Kill Your Community offers practical, implementable steps that can be taken to bring a moribund community back to life. This book delivers what it promises, and it does so with wit and warmth.
I’ve lived in small towns my whole life–my hometown is dying out and my current residence has an aging population. When our chamber of commerce announced it was consulting with Doug Griffiths, the library picked up several copies of his book for people to read. So I did.
There were several key things in this book that I’d managed to figure out on my own. Others were eye-opening. ALL of them are situations (e.g. people) I’ve encountered in my hometown and current town. Griffiths’s research and results are encouraging and have the potential to truly be life changing if a community is willing to identify its weaknesses and make some changes.
I would definitely recommend this book to any community/village/township wanting to improve itself and adapt to the times. It really was a fascinating and encouraging book.
Rated G. Get your copy here!
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