Bruce Feiler (Get the book)New York Times columnist Feiler explores new ideas on family dynamics. Impressed by the amount of innovative thinking in the business world about how people work best in small groups and "[t]rend-setting programs from the U.S. military to professional sports" on being resilient in the face of setbacks, the author was also frustrated by the emphasis of psychologists on the happiness of individual family members. For him, this was not just an intellectual pursuit. Feiler was in search of an answer to the question: "What do happy families do right and how can the rest of us learn to make our families happier?" Feiler picked up ideas from many sources, but in the end, he found the secret to a happy family--not in a set of nostrums or procedures, but in flexibility and a willingness to keep trying. A good addition to the self-help bookshelf.--Kirkus
