The parade fee
When does consistency become rigidity?
READING GROUPS & ORGANIZATIONS
Questions Worth Arguing About.
A reading and facilitation guide for book clubs, libraries, boards, chambers of commerce, service clubs, civic groups, leadership programs, and any room willing to disagree productively about who is actually keeping the thing running.
THE GUIDE
Ninety minutes. No answer key.
Questions Worth Arguing About starts with what happened in Embracing the Local, not with a list of themes to admire politely. The questions open on fifteen votes, a parade fee, a phone that didn’t ring, a candidate forum, a Bigfoot costume, and the other concrete decisions that made the book what it is.
For organizations, four real Chamber cases form the center of the session. Argue the decision first. Only then turn the same problem toward your own organization. The guide includes a complete ninety-minute plan, passages to read aloud, library and group-order information, and an invitation to bring Glen into the conversation.
Both PDFs are eight pages. The copier-friendly edition removes color and tints for library kits, classrooms, and heroic office printers.
FOUR CASES
Good instincts under pressure.
The cases are not four illustrations of one tidy lesson. They are four decisions where an admirable leadership instinct can become its own failure mode.
The tradition nobody could carry
When does sustainability become abandonment?
The tree nobody owns
When does restraint become abdication?
The moderator
When does stepping aside become evasion?
The guide leaves those tensions unstated. The room gets to find them. That is the point.
FOR LIBRARIES & GROUPS
Put the book to work.
A chamber executive can hand six copies and the guide to a board chair and run a full session without us ever knowing it happened. A library can drop the print edition into a Book Club in a Bag and make thirty copies without asking permission. A leadership program can use one case or all four.
This reading guide may be reproduced and shared freely for noncommercial reading groups, libraries, and educational use.
Need copies of the book? We’ll help figure out the least ridiculous way to get them to you. Whenever practical, we prefer to fulfill larger orders through independent bookstores.
Want the author in the room?
Glen does video visits with reading groups, libraries, and organizations anywhere, and in-person visits in Tuolumne, Calaveras, Amador, and Stanislaus counties when the calendar allows. No fee, no minimum group size.