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Ain’t No Trust explores issues of trust and distrust among low-income women in the U.S.—at work, around childcare, in their relationships, and with caseworkers—and presents richly detailed evidence from in-depth interviews about our welfare system and why it’s failing the very people it is designed to help. By comparing low-income mothers’ experiences before and after welfare reform, Judith A. Levine probes women’s struggles to gain or keep jobs while they simultaneously care for their...
| Автор | Judith Levine |
In this new collection of thirteen essays, Arlie Russell Hochschild—author of the groundbreaking exploration of emotional labor, The Managed Heart and The Outsourced Self—focuses squarely on the impact of social forces on the emotional side of intimate life.<br /><br />From the «work» it takes to keep personal life personal, put feeling into work, and empathize with others; to the cultural «blur» between market and home; the effect of a social class gap on family wellbeing; and the...
| Автор | Arlie Russell Hochschild |
Can one teacher truly make a difference in her students’ lives when everything is working against them? Can a love for literature and learning save the most vulnerable of youth from a life of poverty? <i>The Road Out</i> is a gripping account of one teacher’s journey of hope and discovery with her students—girls growing up poor in a neighborhood that was once home to white Appalachian workers, and is now a ghetto. Deborah Hicks, set out to give one group of girls something she never...
| Автор | Deborah Hicks |
In the United States, a healthy pregnancy is now defined well before pregnancy begins. Public health messages encourage women of reproductive age to anticipate motherhood and prepare their bodies for healthy reproduction—even when pregnancy is not on the horizon. Some experts believe that this pre-pregnancy care model will reduce risk and ensure better birth outcomes than the prenatal care model. Others believe it represents yet another attempt to control women’s...
| Автор | Miranda R. Waggoner |
The concept of lean production is not new, but the challenges of dramatic change management often stymie business leaders trying to put lean operations into place. This newly-revised and greatly expanded volume aims to provide a readable, real-world roadmap for putting into place the indispensable strategy and tactics managers need to make lean work and move their organizations – whether manufacturing or service-based – toward a world-class production system. Drawing upon decades of experience...
| Автор | John Black |
Written for anyone in a leadership position in maintenance, storeroom or production, this unique book will also be found useful by vendors to the maintenance departments, including maintenance contractors, parts vendors, and various kinds of service providers. As a practical book, Lean Maintenance will take the reader on a journey from uncovering waste, designing projects to address the waste, selling the projects to management and delivering the projects. Every area in maintenance is covered,...
| Автор | Joel Levitt |
This approach to remote facilitation makes virtual meetings powerful means of collaboration using proven techniques to accommodate a diversity of cultures, locations, and personalities. Many people struggle with remote meetings: a cocktail of factors, such as technical barriers and invisible group norms, increase the uncertainty and risk of the already vulnerable task of collaborating and sharing ideas. When remote meetings go badly, they go really badly. Few things feel as lonely and...
| Автор | Kirsten Clacey |
The Performance Principle is written for any manager, supervisor, or business leader who feels there must be a better, more systematic way to motivate their team and achieve phenomenal results. It tells the fictional story of Will Campbell, the newly promoted executive in charge of the Hyler manufacturing facility. The company has fallen on hard times and Campbell is given a year to turn around Hyler’s fortunes, a feat made all the more challenging because of the discontent among all...
| Автор | Mackenzie Kyle |
Did you know you’re likely to have had over 89,000 heated altercations with your closest relations before you reached the age of eight? By age 16, thousands more hours will have been spent by most of us in some form of disagreement with those in our extended social networks. As a species, we’re well practised at falling out with each other. We may even have a gene for it – certainly, some of us seem to be gifted. When it comes to finding resolutions, however, things don’t come quite...
| Автор | Michael Brown |
Charts the history of women's liberation and calls for a revitalized feminism. Nancy Fraser’s major new book traces the feminist movement’s evolution since the 1970s and anticipates a new—radical and egalitarian—phase of feminist thought and action. During the ferment of the New Left, “Second Wave” feminism emerged as a struggle for women’s liberation and took its place alongside other radical movements that were questioning core features of capitalist society. But feminism’s subsequent...
| Автор | Nancy Fraser |
How to Think Strategically is the ideal primer for those who want to develop their mental acumen and make strategic impact. This book will help you understand what it means to “be strategic” and how to craft strategy that is effective, powerful, and clever. A competent strategic thinker tolerates ambiguity, notices weak signals, defines the core challenge facing the organization, and designs effective responses with a winning strategic logic. How to Think Strategically provides numerous...
| Автор | Greg Githens |
Dr. Daren Martin has used the Whiteboard to spark conversations, drive change, and Inspire meaningful action in some of the biggest companies in the world. Hand-drawn by the author, this creative collection of illustrations, inspirational quotes, and savvy business models shares one purpose: to spark conversations and evolve companies. Whether you’re a business owner, a manager, or individual contributor, use the thought-provoking drawings in Whiteboard to ignite, revitalize, and motivate you...
| Автор | Daren Martin |
Companies and the leaders within them struggle to achieve results. <br><br> With the advances in technology companies are either running successfully into this new world, or failing to keep up. Is your company beached? Stranded on the sands of past success? Slow and steady no longer wins the race. <br><br> <i>Beached Whale</i> will equip you to evaluate if your company has become beached. Do you have a coordinated enterprise company, or do you have a company...
| Автор | Daren Martin |
The Perfect Gift for a Woman Who Wants More for Her Gender Packed with little-known sheroes and empowering journaling prompts, this book and interactive journal is a must-have for those who believe the world would be a better place with women in charge. Feel inspired and empowered by historical women. The importance of women is written throughout history, in big ways and small. From women in science to women in sports to the women in leadership positions paving the way for change,...
| Автор | Shelly Rachanow |
This book is an invaluable key to self-understanding. Using examples from her own life and the lives of her clients, as well as from dreams, fairy tales, myths, films, and literature, Linda Schierse Leonard, a Jungian analyst, exposes the wound of the spirit that both men and women of our culture bear—a wound that is grounded in a poor relationship between masculine and feminine principles. Leonard speculates that when a father is wounded in his own psychological development, he is not able to...
| Автор | Linda Schierse Leonard |
As a leader of a small to mid-sized business with 20 to 500 employees, do you find yourself falling short of goals you set at the start of the year? Do you believe that strategy is an important element in achieving your goals, but you’ve avoided strategic planning because you think it’s too time-consuming and too complicated? Have your previous goal-setting efforts resulted in a strategic plan that collects dust on the shelf? In The Chemistry of Strategy: Strategic Planning for the...
| Автор | John W Myrna |
Imagine a company where people love coming to work and are highly productive on a daily basis. Imagine a company whose top executives, in a quest to create the most «fun» workplace ever, obliterate labor-management divisions and push decision-making responsibility down to the plant floor. Could such a company compete in today's bottom-line corporate world? Could it even turn a profit? Well, imagine no more.In Joy at Work, Dennis W. Bakke tells the true story of this extraordinary...
| Автор | Dennis W. Bakke |
Project Management: A Financial Perspective is designed to provide you with a deep understanding of the applications and importance of Project Management. You will learn how to assess a project with respect to time, costs, and resources in order to effectively and efficiently reach your goals. You will become familiar with the five processes involved in Project management – Initiating, Planning, Executing, Controlling, and Closing on time and within budget– along with the nine knowledge ...
| Автор | Dr Jae K. Shim |
People want to buy from, work for, and partner with companies that matter.So how do you build a company that matters?Companies and people that matter have successfully become the obvious choice in the hearts and minds of their customers, their employees, and their communities. They elevate themselves by consistently finding ways to solve the most pressing needs their markets face. The result? They create more value year after year and build a sustainable, differentiated organization.In Matter,...
| Автор | Julie Williamson |
Leaders have talked about the importance of corporate culture for decades, but the success of iconic companies like GE, Apple, and Google shows how culture is a strategic lever that can be utilized for driving growth, change, and innovation. In this new age of globalization, rapid technology shifts, and constant disruption, the 21st century marketplace is more volatile and uncertain than ever. To thrive, businesses need a new kind of emphasis around culture.Sara Roberts, former CEO and founder...
| Автор | Sara Roberts |
Groundbreaking essays by female activists and scholars documenting women’s resistance before, during, and after the Arab Spring Images of women protesting in the Arab Spring, from Tahrir Square to the streets of Tunisia and Syria, have become emblematic of the political upheaval sweeping the Middle East and North Africa. In Women Rising , Rita Stephan and Mounira M. Charrad bring together a provocative group of scholars, activists, artists, and more, highlighting the first-hand experiences of...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
With 25 memorable stories that spark insight, fuel innovation, and inspire important new conversations, The Million Dollar Parrot has established itself as an essential element of every leader's toolkit.<br><br>"Jerry de Jaager and Jim Ericson have produced one of the most engaging business books I've read in a long while. Each of their stories will fire your neurons—and keep them firing as you ponder their wise and insightful lessons. This little...
| Автор | Gerald de Jaager |
How an organization conducts itself both externally towards its customers and internally towards its employees, its employer brand, has never been more important… and transparent.<br><br>HR leaders know that the ability of customers, competitors and employees alike to evaluate the authenticity of brand messages has never been easier. By becoming knowledgeable about the fundamentals of employer branding and enabling the DELIVERY of that brand to create a vibrant organizational...
| Автор | Christine OSB McLeod |
Welcome to your continuing investment in leading for life – whether as a formal leader in a corporate or nonprofit business or fraternal organization (e.g., sorority, fraternity, Links, etc), at your church, or in your family. You may be an informal leader, where no one has given you the "official" title as leader, but where you are influencing people left and right as a positive, effective role model. You may not see yourself as a leader today; however, we...
| Автор | Janice Witt Smith |