Summer Reading

Are you a night owl? Like to read and talk? Grab a coffee and join Collaboration Works! at the Broadlind Café for discussions about creativity and innovation.

Book & Brew Schedule

On the following Friday nights at the Broadlind Café:
438 E. Broadway, Long Beach, CA 90802
JUNE 29, 8 pm Orbiting the Giant Hairball
by Gordon MacKenzie
It’s not too late to pick up this book! You can read it in one sitting! Mac Kenzie inspires the creative person to rise above a “rubber-stamp” mindset into a mode of dreaming, daring and doing.

JULY 20, 8 pm The Medici Effect by Frans Johansson
Turn your ideas into path-breaking innovations! Johansson shows how breakthrough ideas most often occur when we bring concepts from one field into a new, unfamiliar territory.

AUG. 31, 8 pm The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
"To realize one's destiny is a person's only obligation". This quote taken from The Alchemist sums up what the book is all about. The journey that life should be is lived by a simple shepherd who finds that life's gifts lie within us all.

SEP. 28, 8 pm The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO by Tom Kelley
Learn the secrets for fostering a process of continuous innovation!
IDEO, the widely admired, award-winning design and development firm that brought the world the Apple mouse, and hundreds of other cutting-edge products and services, reveals the solution to the problem of innovation.

OCT. 26, 8 pm Good to Great and Good to Great and the Social Sectors by Jim Collins
“Some of the key concepts,” comments Jim Collins, “fly in the face of our modern business culture and will, quite frankly, upset some people.”
Discover the surprising findings. If you own a business or run a nonprofit, you do not want to miss out on this discussion!


November Just Added!
Eric Marsh of HfLB was so excited about our upcoming reads he wanted to add his own favorite:

NOV. 30, 8 pm The Starfish and the Spider
by Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom
The Starfish and the Spider argues that organizations fall into two categories: traditional “spiders,” which have a rigid hierarchy and top-down leadership, and revolutionary “starfish,” which rely on the power of peer relationships.


In every city there are two groups living side-by-side; non-profit organizations fighting to meet the needs of under-served people and socially conscious creatives with a desire to “give back” to their city or community. CollaborationWorks! bridges that divide, matching creative people with exciting projects that benefit nonprofits.

CWorks! is being launched by Alexa McNabb and Breanna Fowler from the Gathering, and Amy Hammer from the Young Adults group.

posted by Alexa @ 9:41 AM