How many of the meetings you attend do you consider worthless? Your response (and those from the rest of your colleagues) will no doubt lead you to read, if not embrace, Kemp’s latest book, Moving Out of the Box. By beginning with the obvious—checklists for meetings and decision making—she sets the narrative tone for her book: relatively devoid of jargon, instructional, and, at the end, engaging. She touts a rubric called ChoiceMarks, which is a typology of five styles—antisurvival, boxed-in, neutral, engaged enthusiasm, extreme excitement—all of which can somehow lead to decisions being made. Scenarios, practices, quizzes, and lists upon lists of questions infuse these styles with substance and help readers figure out how to become unstuck, collaborate, take control, act, or simply let the initiative die. The material is presented in a realistic, down-to-earth manner; too bad, though, that Kemp didn’t capitalize more on the visuals as another way to identify and prompt decision making. Appended: ChoiceMarks questions for every stage of consensus. --Barbara Jacobs

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