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The Unspoken Truths for Career Success: Navigating Pay, Promotions, and Power at Work
by Tessa White"A terrific read for the new generations rising in the workforce—and for their leaders."— Stephen M. R. Covey, The New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Speed of Trust and Trust & Inspire STOP SPINNING YOUR WHEELS AND TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR CAREER FUTURE TODAY.Building a successful career in the world of remote work, hybrid schedules, and a lack of work/life balance is not easy. In fact it&’s difficult and often seems impossible. But, it doesn&’t have to be that way. By confronting the lies we are told about building a career, this book will bring you one step closer to the epiphany that will change your life.This workplace manual lays out the truth behind the lies that are fueling the most common career frustrations, including:The truth about pay. Hard work doesn&’t always lead to more money. Learn how to leverage your position to maximize your salary.The truth about promotions. If you want to be considered for a better job title with better pay, you need to be better than your job description. Understand how to build the skills you need to be considered for a promotion.The truth about loyalty. Companies are not designed to return the loyalty you give them. Stop waiting for the praise you&’ve earned and start focusing on your future.The truth about burnout. Work/life balance doesn&’t have to mean taking a step back. Learn to work with your brain and not against it.The truth about office politics and power. You may hate office politics, but they are in every company in every industry. Learn to use the political landscape of your workplace to your advantage. Master these unspoken truths for greater recognition, increased opportunities for pay and promotions, and to provide a path to greater influence and power. The truth can indeed set you free.
Unsportsmanlike Conduct: College Football and the Politics of Rape
by Jessica Luther"Jessica Luther studied history and the classics before marshaling her writing talent toward of-the-moment topics like sexual assault and college sports culture. Now she's an investigative journalist, working from her adopted hometown, Austin, Tex., in what is perhaps the nation's most college-obsessed state. Ms. Luther's new book, Unsportsmanlike Conduct, examines the 'programmatic manner' in which sexual assaults are swept under the rug by institutions both on campus and in the media."--New York Times"Not to reckon with Luther's book would be an abdication not only of one's moral faculty but also of one's fandom...Luther does't just want to save future victims; she wants to save college football."--New York Times Book Review"A significant and riveting look at how one of the greatest cultural tragedies of the millennial generation--the silencing of sexual violence against women on campus--is nurtured by a system of cover-ups and corporatized crises management."--Playboy.com"In Unsportsmanlike Conduct, [Luther] draws on years of research and reporting to outline what she calls the 'playbook'--all the standard, predictable ways that football programs, universities, the NCAA, and sports media typically respond when athletes are accused of rape or assault. It's an infuriating, exhaustively researched catalogue of problems, from denial and toothless language to ignoring or discrediting the victim."--Elle.com"The most important sports book of the year."--Booklist, Starred Review"Jessica Luther is a Texas-based investigative reporter who broke the story of Sam Ukwuachu, a football player at Baylor University who was then on trial for sexual assault. Since then she's kept track of the dozens of sexual-assault claims made against college football players every year. Here, she looks at the relationship between football and sexual assault, the people and systems that perpetuate it, and how we can change the narrative going forward."--New York Magazine"Investigative journalist Luther catalogues the abuses created and enabled by college football programs and suggests workable reforms."-- Boston Globe, One of the Best Sports Books of 2016The latest from Akashic's Edge of Sports imprint.Football teams create playbooks, in which they draw up the plays they will use on the field. Playbooks are how teams work and why they win. This book is about a different kind of playbook: the one coaches, teams, universities, police, communities, the media, and fans seem to follow whenever a college football player is accused of sexual assault. It's a deep dive into how different institutions--the NCAA, athletic departments, universities, the media--run the same plays over and over again when these stories break. If everyone runs his play well, scrutiny dies down quickly, no institution ever has to change how it operates, and the evaporation of these cases into nothingness looks natural. In short, this playbook is why nothing ever changes.Unsportsmanlike Conduct unpacks this societal playbook piece by piece, and not only advocates that we destroy the old plays, but also suggests we replace them with ones that will force us to finally do something about this issue.Political sportswriter and Edge of Sports imprint curator Dave Zirin (the Nation) has never shied away from criticizing that which die-hard sports fans hold dear. The Edge of Sports titles will address issues across many different sports--football, basketball, swimming, tennis, etc.--and at both the professional and nonprofessional/collegiate levels. Furthermore, Zirin brings to the table select stories of athletes' journeys and what they are facing and how they evolve both in their sport as well as against the greater backdrop of one's life's odyssey.
The Unstoppable Startup: Mastering Israel's Secret Rules of Chutzpah
by Uri AdoniTHE BOLD SECRET TO SUCCESSFUL STARTUPSVeteran venture capitalist Uri Adoni shares the secrets to Israel&’s incredible track record of success in this new guide that will help make any startup unstoppable.More than half of all startups fail—often during the crucial early stages of development when they need to prove their viability on a limited budget. But when it comes to startup success, one country stands out: Israel. Even though it is a relatively small country with a population of just over 9 million inhabitants, Israel has one of the highest concentrations of startups in the world, has the highest venture capital per capita, is one of the top countries in terms of number of companies listed on NASDAQ, and is well recognized as a global leader in research and development.In The Unstoppable Startup, Uri Adoni goes behind the scenes to explain the principles and practices that can make any startup, anywhere in the world, become an unstoppable one.Packed with insider accounts from leaders who have realized bold visions, The Unstoppable Startup distills Israeli chutzpah into six operational rules that will help you to:Build an unstoppable team;Foresee the future and innovate to meet its demands;Manage your funding and partnerships through all phases of growth;Dominate the market category you are after or create a new one;Build and manage an early stage investment vehicle; andBuild and grow a healthy high-tech ecosystem.Far from mere conjecture, Adoni implemented these practices throughout his more than 12 years as a venture capitalist for one of Israel's most successful venture funds, and he continues to utilize these same proven startup strategies today in metropolitan areas in the US.
Unstoppable Teams: The Four Essential Actions of High-Performance Leadership
by Alden MillsThree-time Navy SEAL platoon commander and founder of Perfect Fitness reveals how to put together Unstoppable Teams that can accomplish any objective.SEALs and civilians operate in extremely different environments, but what makes both kinds of teams excel comes down to the same thing: service to others, trust, empathy, and a caring environment. Working in both the military and the private sector, Alden Mills has seen firsthand what it takes to lead an unstoppable team of individuals.Teams are nothing more than interconnected relationships with a collective, single-minded focus. Success almost never depends on individual talent and valor; instead, Mills shows, it depends, first, on creating a strong foundation for yourself and, second, using that foundation to help others go beyond their individual pursuits and talents to create something bigger and better—an unstoppable team.Unstoppable Teams show managers at every level how to inspire, motivate, and lead the people around them through such team-building lessons as:* Too many people mistake groups of individuals for a team.* People all have the same motivational genetic drivers—our will to survive, our ego-driven desire for personal gain, and our soul-driven yearning to be a part of something greater than ourselves.* By overriding our fears about survival, we can focus on our desire to thrive.* The more you care for your teammates, the more they will dare for the team.* Great ideas are not reserved for a select few—true teams embrace diversity of thought.Unstoppable Teams is the handbook for how to build care-based teams that will push people to achieve more than they ever thought possible.
Unsubscribe: How to Kill Email Anxiety, Avoid Distractions and Get REAL Work Done
by Jocelyn GleiThe average person checks email 77 times a day, sends and receives more than 122 email messages a day and spends nearly a third of their workweek managing a constant influx of email. Even when we're away from work, checking email is the most popular activity we engage in on our mobile devices. Email is a powerful and essential tool - but it has become a near-constant source of frustration, anxiety and distraction from our work.In this insightful and intensely practical book, Jocelyn K. Glei explains why email is so overwhelming and addicting, and lays out strategies for limiting the energy you spend on it. These include setting meaningful work goals, clarifying to yourself which people and messages truly matter and creating a daily routine that aligns with your natural creative rhythms.Through her actionable, thoughtful advice, Glei will help you to:- Stop letting email dictate your mood, your focus and your to-do list- Process your inbox efficiently- Compose messages that get people to take action- Establish boundaries that allow you to engage in more meaningful work.
Unsustainable: Amazon, Warehousing, and the Politics of Exploitation
by Juliann Emmons AllisonFrom famously humble origins, Amazon has grown to become one of the most successful businesses in history. In its effort to provide its trademark fast and convenient "Prime" delivery, the company built a vast worldwide network of fulfillment centers and warehouses. Unsustainable looks inside the company's warehouses to reveal that the rise of Amazon is only made possible by the exploitation of workers' labor and communities' resources. Juliann Emmons Allison and Ellen Reese expose the real-world repercussions of these pernicious strategies through a chilling case study of the socioeconomic and environmental harms associated with the largely unchecked growth of warehousing in Inland Southern California, one of the nation's largest logistics hubs, where Amazon is the largest private-sector employer. Tracing the rise of grassroots resistance to the warehouse industry by workers and communities across this region, the country, and the globe, Unsustainable provides fresh insight into one of the most important and far-reaching struggles of our time.
Unsustainable Institutions of Men: Transnational Dispersed Centres, Gender Power, Contradictions (Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality)
by Jeff Hearn Ernesto Vasquez del Aguila Marina HughsonHow are men, masculinities and gender power implicated within global institutions? How are global institutions to be understood in terms of men, masculinities and gender power? What are men up to in such arenas as: global finance, corporate law, military intelligence, world sporting bodies and nationalist politics? Unsustainable Institutions of Men examines men’s dealings in transnational processes across the economy, politics, technologies and bodies. In exploring the men’s domination of institutions in national and transnational realms this volume underpins a novel approach built around multiple "dispersed centres" of men’s power. Indeed, in critical discussions of men and masculinities there has been a gradual shift in focus from the local, so-called ‘ethnographic moment’, to a broader view encompassing several dynamics (e.g. global, transnational, international, postcolonial and the global north-south). Building on this conceptual move, Unsustainable Institutions of Men focuses on pinpointing masculine actions and influences that support and enact transnational processes, disclosing those connections and examining institutional alternatives which could contribute to more inclusive and democratic transnational dialogues. Comprised of a range of international contributions, Unsustainable Institutions of Men will appeal to students, researchers, experts and activists seeking to understand the deep structural conditions of contemporary globalized threats, created by old and new patterns of gender power and transnational patriarchies.
Unsustainable Transport: City Transport in the New Century (Transport, Development and Sustainability Series)
by David BanisterThis book addresses the links between transport and sustainable urban development, from an analysis of the global picture to issues in transport and energy intensity, public policy and the institutional and organisational constraints on change. The central part of the book explores these links in more detail at city level, covering land use and development, economic measures, and the role that technology can play. The final part looks for inspiration from events in developing countries and the means by which we can move from the unsustainable present to a more sustainable future.
Untangling Complexity—Peace Building Engineering: Systems Thinking & Complexity Management to Support Community Development (Synthesis Lectures on Engineers, Technology, & Society #29)
by Camilo Andrés Navarro ForeroThis book examines how the rapid acceleration and interconnection of globalization comes with the need for more flexible and adaptable solutions to complex problems and solutions. It describes and demonstrates possible combinations of methods and methodologies to address the complex problems that the world offers us today. Sharing meaningful experiences of the application of workshops in mixed public private companies and with vulnerable communities and peacebuilding communities. The text offers readers, who are looking for tools to face complexity and enhance their projects, real-world examples and accessible methods. The book is based on advanced engineering tools however it is understandable and accessible to a broad audience.This book is for decision makers involved with social complex systems who are uncertain about how they should start and proceed. Discussions on new methodologies to support engineering interventions with communities are being shown. A new multi-methodology proposal called “Complexity Funnel Methodology” (CFM) dissected in “Social Transformation Workshops” (STW) is provided and discussed. It is used with combinations of different methods and methodologies of critical Systems thinking. The implementation of this methodology is described using a case study approach.
Untangling the USA: The Cost of Complexity and What Can Be Done About It
by Etienne DeffargesTom Brady and the “tuck rule”; “Nobody knew health care could be so complicated”; “The financial world has become way too complicated and very secretive.” What could Tom Brady, Donald Trump, and Michael Lewis possibly have in common? Complexity. Lewis has analyzed it; Trump has discovered it; Brady has benefited from it. And the USA is entangled in it. Complex systems are an inevitable part of business and socio-economic structures. We reach a breaking point, however, when social and organizational structures become cumbersome and unintelligible. Entire new systems need to be constructed just to manage this complexity, with questionable or negative value to society at large. The outcome is high costs, poor results, deepening social inequality, and the erosion of public trust. Wholesale changes must be contemplated. This is particularly true in the USA today, where complexity is piled upon complexity in a number of critical sectors, such as health care, energy, finance, and government. The author takes a common sense, broad-based, and analytical approach to some of the most complicated issues facing the US today. He examines the costs of complexity through a wide-angle lens, provides analysis of the root causes involved, and explains what is necessary to improve results and lower costs. The ever-increasing level of complexity in the US is compared to that in other developed economies. History is referenced as a guide to show that in many areas, America’s success has relied on simple and elegant solutions. These contrasting paths are used to propose alternative approaches and new solutions. Beyond analyzing how incredibly complex socio-economic systems have emerged in recent years in the US, the author steps back, reflects on the fundamental values of this country, and offers a number of actionable proposals to improve the lives of all American citizens. Etienne Deffarges has enjoyed a successful career, first as a senior strategy consultant to many leading global companies, then as a heath care technology entrepreneur in the US. He is perfectly positioned to observe how complex systems are stifling socio-economic progress. He brings a unique insider view of the issues involved and examines a number of key sectors that impact American society at large, including health care, energy, finance, regulations, taxation, utilities, and welfare.
Untangling with Value Stream Mapping: How to Use VSM to Address Behavioral and Cultural Patterns and Quantify Waste in Multifunctional and Nonrepetitive Work Environments
by Ovidiu ContrasThe standard belief in books about Lean initiatives and value stream mapping (VSM) is that VSM works well on transactional processes (which are primarily linear processes where handoffs are well defined and the outcome is known) and it is useful for repetitive projects or products. This book counters these statements by clearly demonstrating how a VSM exercise can be successfully performed in complex, multifunctional environments involving nonrepetitive work, such as aircraft new product development, custom engineering, software development and project management. The methodology described in this book is the result of more than ten years of refinement and is based on practice while working with multidisciplinary teams and helping them achieve their goals. This is a novel approach to capturing the information flow in a VSM by recognizing it as the place where most of the issues are generated, especially for the previously mentioned environments and the fact that classical mapping methodologies (including classical VSM) do not capture it well. The VSM methodology that the author developed goes to the essence of a VSM (activities flow, information flow, timeline), uses conventional VSM icons and some custom information flow icons and helps the following: Quantifying waste (VSM literature gap) Making disconnects visible (VSM literature gap) Making behavioral and cultural patterns visible (VSM literature gap) If the steps are followed thoroughly, then lead time reductions ranging from 60% to 88% are achieved, along with increased availability of resources, more output with the same resources, projects delivered on time and, most importantly, colleagues embracing the Lean mindset, which greatly contributes to maintaining the gains. Essentially, this book helps readers perform a VSM in environments where multiple stakeholders interact with each other to deliver a product or a service with unclear aspects, such as what the product/service is, how all involved can contribute to the product or service transformation and how the interactions between them occur. For example, the products/services targeted in this book include test results, analysis results, a custom design, a process, a methodology, an engineering change, integrated enterprise software and engineering drawings. Concurrently, this book helps readers map behavioral patterns, such as micromanagement, and company culture aspects, such as excessive governance and "decisions by committee."
Untangling with Value Stream Mapping: How to Use VSM to Address Behavioral and Cultural Patterns and Quantify Waste in Multifunctional and Nonrepetitive Work Environments
by Ovidiu ContrasThe standard belief in books about Lean initiatives and value stream mapping (VSM) is that VSM works well on transactional processes (which are primarily linear processes where handoffs are well defined and the outcome is known) and it is useful for repetitive projects or products. This book counters these statements by clearly demonstrating how a VSM exercise can be successfully performed in complex, multifunctional environments involving nonrepetitive work, such as aircraft new product development, custom engineering, software development and project management. The methodology described in this book is the result of more than ten years of refinement and is based on practice while working with multidisciplinary teams and helping them achieve their goals. This is a novel approach to capturing the information flow in a VSM by recognizing it as the place where most of the issues are generated, especially for the previously mentioned environments and the fact that classical mapping methodologies (including classical VSM) do not capture it well. The VSM methodology that the author developed goes to the essence of a VSM (activities flow, information flow, timeline), uses conventional VSM icons and some custom information flow icons and helps the following: Quantifying waste (VSM literature gap) Making disconnects visible (VSM literature gap) Making behavioral and cultural patterns visible (VSM literature gap) If the steps are followed thoroughly, then lead time reductions ranging from 60% to 88% are achieved, along with increased availability of resources, more output with the same resources, projects delivered on time and, most importantly, colleagues embracing the Lean mindset, which greatly contributes to maintaining the gains.Essentially, this book helps readers perform a VSM in environments where multiple stakeholders interact with each other to deliver a product or a service with unclear aspects, such as what the product/service is, how all involved can contribute to the product or service transformation and how the interactions between them occur. For example, the products/services targeted in this book include test results, analysis results, a custom design, a process, a methodology, an engineering change, integrated enterprise software and engineering drawings.Concurrently, this book helps readers map behavioral patterns, such as micromanagement, and company culture aspects, such as excessive governance and "decisions by committee."
Untapped Agility: Seven Leadership Moves to Take Your Transformation to the Next Level
by Jesse FewellThis balanced guide to agility gets past the hype and frustration to help frustrated leaders transform their agile transformations. Agile transformations are supposed to make organizations modern, competitive, and relevant. But in the well-intentioned effort to move into the future, change leaders find themselves frustrated by pushback, limited impact, poor practices, and unfair criticism. What's going on? Jesse Fewell's book cuts through the "quick-fix" hype of agile theory and explains a recurring transformational pattern that unpacks what holds organizations back. The boost is the initial gains from logical first steps; the barrier is the unavoidable roadblock that must come next; and the rebound is the way forward to further gains by leaning against the concept of the original boost. With these counterintuitive rebounds, Fewell identifies seven leadership moves that can be used to unblock stalled agile transformations. No, your transformation is not a failure. It turns out the buy-in, the talent, the alignment, and the growth you need to break through are already in front of you; it's all simply hidden under the surface—undiscovered, unutilized, and untapped.
The Untapped Power of Discovery: How to Create Change That Inspires a Better Future
by Karen Golden-BiddleDespite being a game-changer in powering human growth, discovery remains a mystery. How can it produce ahas and insights to meet the challenge of new realities and reimagine organizational management? This book lays out a process of inquiry that drives belief change and leads to discoveries, empowering leaders, groups, and the organization with a powerful tool for navigating an uncertain future. Discovery lights the intellectual spark for every breakthrough in science, technology, pharmaceuticals, and more—but fear and inertia can harden beliefs and practices that no longer fit the new realities. To counter this, discovery can be cultivated rather than suppressed, using a new, three-phase process, a management practice that consistently generates the ahas and insights that underpin all transformation. Based on years of research and real-world observation, this book inspires and equips leaders at all levels to champion this discovery process and fuel genuine, sustained change in their communities and organizations.Accompanied by a website that includes proprietary tools, audio and video clips, and a downloadable workbook, this book is an enriching resource for current and aspiring leaders and managers across industries, as well as management consultants, HR professionals, corporate educators, and business students.
The Untapped Power of Discovery: How to Create Change That Inspires a Better Future
by Karen Golden-BiddleDespite being a game-changer in powering human growth, discovery remains a mystery. How can it produce ahas and insights to meet the challenge of new realities and reimagine organizational management?This book lays out a process of inquiry that drives belief change and leads to discoveries, empowering leaders, groups, and the organization with a powerful tool for navigating an uncertain future. Discovery lights the intellectual spark for every breakthrough in science, technology, pharmaceuticals, and more—but fear and inertia can harden beliefs and practices that no longer fit the new realities. To counter this, discovery can be cultivated rather than suppressed, using a new, three-phase process, a management practice that consistently generates the ahas and insights that underpin all transformation. Based on years of research and real-world observation, this book inspires and equips leaders at all levels to champion this discovery process and fuel genuine, sustained change in their communities and organizations.Accompanied by a website that includes proprietary tools, audio and video clips, and a downloadable workbook, this book is an enriching resource for current and aspiring leaders and managers across industries, as well as management consultants, HR professionals, corporate educators, and business students..
The Unteachables: Disability Rights and the Invention of Black Special Education
by Keith A. MayesHow special education used disability labels to marginalize Black students in public schoolsThe Unteachables examines the overrepresentation of Black students in special education over the course of the twentieth century. As African American children integrated predominantly white schools, many were disproportionately labeled educable mentally retarded (EMR), learning disabled (LD), and emotionally behavioral disordered (EBD). Keith A. Mayes charts the evolution of disability categories and how these labels kept Black learners segregated in American classrooms.The civil rights and the educational disability rights movements, Mayes shows, have both collaborated and worked at cross-purposes since the beginning of school desegregation. Disability rights advocates built upon the opportunity provided by the civil rights movement to make claims about student invisibility at the level of intellectual and cognitive disabilities. Although special education ostensibly included children from all racial groups, educational disability rights advocates focused on the needs of white disabled students, while school systems used disability discourses to malign and marginalize Black students.From the 1940s to the present, social science researchers, policymakers, school administrators, and teachers have each contributed to the overrepresentation of Black students in special education. Excavating the deep-seated racism embedded in both the public school system and public policy, The Unteachables explores the discriminatory labeling of Black students, and how it indelibly contributed to special education disproportionality, to student discipline and push-out practices, and to the school-to-prison pipeline effect.
Untenable: The True Story of White Ethnic Flight from America's Cities
by Jack CashillLong accused of racism and &“white flight,&” the ethnic Americans driven from their homes and neighborhoods—the author included—finally get the chance to tell their side of the story.&“A startlingly honest and poignant look at &‘white flight&’ from the white perspective. A necessary and overdue corrective.&” —Brent Bozell III, founder and president of the Media Research Center I asked one lifelong friend, a rare Democrat among the displaced, why he and his widowed mother finally left our block in the early 1970s, twenty years after the first African-American families moved in. He searched a minute for the right set of words, and then simply said, &“It became untenable.&” When I asked what he meant by &“untenable,&” he answered, &“When your mother gets mugged for the second time, that&’s untenable. When your home gets broken into for the second time, that&’s untenable.&” In researching this project, I found myself repeatedly stunned by the failure of self-described experts on white flight to ask those accused of fleeing why it was they fled. The reason the experts didn&’t ask, I discovered, is that they were afraid of what they might learn.
Unterbrochene Karrieren
by Elisabeth SchillingDas Buch analysiert, wie Beschäftigte der öffentlichen Verwaltung mit unterbrochenen Erwerbsverläufen ihr Arbeitsleben gestalten, welche Bedeutung Partizipation in der Arbeitswelt für sie hat, wie sie beruflichen Erfolg definieren und die Balance zwischen dem Beruflichen und dem Privaten herstellen. Der Analyse liegt eine qualitative Studie mit biographischen Interviews zugrunde. Frauen erzählten über ihre Erfahrungen des Aus- und Wiedereinstiegs, über ihre Wünsche, Hindernisse auf dem Weg zur Verwirklichung dieser Wünsche und Realitäten im Arbeitsalltag. Durch die Vorstellung der Typologie von Übergangserfahrungen werden diese Erkenntnisse systematisiert und für den Leser greifbar gemacht. Zum Schluss werden Vorschläge für spezifische Personalentwicklungsmaßnahmen gemacht.
Unternehmenserfolg in den USA
by Ralf Drews Melissa LamsonDie USA ist nach wie vor die erste Anlaufstelle für europäische Investoren und wird dies auch in Zukunft bleiben. Obwohl viele Firmen dies erkannt haben, zeigt eine Studie, dass 70% aller Auslandsinvestitionen scheitern - zumeist aufgrund von Fehlkommunikation und mangelndem kulturellen Verständnis. In ihrem Buch bringen Ralf Drews und Melissa Lamson die Bedürfnisse US-amerikanischer Kunden mit europäischen Go-to-Market-Strategien zusammen. Sie vermitteln anschaulich, wie die US-amerikanische Kultur das Geschäftsleben und damit Entscheidungsprozesse, Kaufinteresse und Kundenloyalität beeinflusst. Abgeleitet aus Interviews mit Managern führender europäischer Unternehmen mit Tätigkeitsfeldern in den USA, bietet das Buch zahlreiche praktische Tipps und Erkenntnisse. Darüber hinaus werden Umsetzungstools, wie das US Buying-Decision Model (tm), das Organizational Readiness Survey (tm) und das Go-To Market Decision Diamond Tool (tm) vorgestellt. Vielen europäischen Manager, die auf dem US-amerikanischen Market aktiv werden wollen, ist nicht bewusst, wie groß ihre Wissenslücke eigentlich ist. Dieses Buch hilft Ihnen ihre Lernkurve erheblich zu verkürzen!
Unternehmerische Resilienz: So werden Organisationen agil und widerstandsfähig
by Uwe RühlWas bedeutet es für ein Unternehmen, wenn seine Lieferkette durch eine Naturkatastrophe oder durch Krieg dauerhaft unterbrochen wird? Was passiert, wenn das zentrale Bürogebäude über Nacht abbrennt? Wenn eine Cyberattacke die IT lahmlegt oder ein Shitstorm das Image zu schädigen droht? Und wie sieht eine vernünftige Prävention, wie sehen schlagkräftige Reaktions- und Krisenmanagementmuster aus, die die Handlungsfähigkeit in einer solchen Krise schnell wiederherstellen und gewährleisten? Unter diesen Voraussetzungen vollzieht sich unaufhaltsam der Shift eines in der Psychologie für Individuen seit mehr als zehn Jahren präsenten Mega-Trends in Richtung Unternehmen und Organisationen: Resilienz ist gefragt! Doch das komplexe Wesen von Unternehmen verbietet einen abziehbildartigen Transfer der in der individuellen Psychologie genutzten Resilienz-Prinzipien. Lösungsansätze für diese Herausforderung liegen nur zum Teil in der Normenwelt, mit der Gesetzgeber und befugte Institutionen das Business Contuinity Management, die Cyber Security, Qualitätsstandards und ein funktionierendes Krisenmanagement in Wirtschaft und Business verankern möchten. Hier kommen Uwe Rühl und sein Team mit ihrem Buch ins Spiel: Als Normenexperten wissen sie, wie wichtig ein tragfähiges und starkes "Skelett" für einen resilienten Körper ist. Und als Katastrophenschützer, Leitstellenchef und gestandener Krisenmanager hat Uwe Rühl gelernt, dass es essenziell ist, unter Druck im Ernstfall mit viel Kraft und Flexibilität gut trainierte Muskeln spielen lassen zu können sowie den "Unternehmenskörper" schon im Vorfeld gegen mögliche Risiken zu impfen und so eine Immunisierung in die Wege zu leiten. Organisationale Resilienz ist kein Hexenwerk, sondern hat vielmehr mit solidem Handwerk zu tun. Das Buch vermittelt dieses Handwerk auf der Basis einer gelungenen Symbiose zwischen den Anforderungen der Normen- und Managementsystemwelt und ganz praktischen Ansätzen und Tipps, die "das Fleisch an den Knochen" geben und darauf abzielen, das starre Skelett zu einem agilen und widerstandsfähigen Körper zu machen. Geschichten aus der Berater- und Unternehmenspraxis, Tipps, Tricks und Handlungsempfehlungen aus Uwe Rühls "Leitstellen-Toolbox" sowie plakative Exkurse zum Thema Krisenhandwerk machen das Buch zu einer äußerst nützlichen und spannenden Lektüre.
Unterricht findet Stadt: Demokratiebildende Koordinaten sozialräumlichen Lernens (Bürgerbewusstsein)
by Carolin KiehlDas vorliegende Buch untersucht das Verhältnis zwischen demokratiebildendem Lernen und sozialräumlichen Spezifika im Kontext einer Gesellschaft der Vielfalt. Ausgehend vom Verständnis einer reflexiven, heterogenen und zu Teilen widersprüchlichen Gesellschaft werden fächerübergreifende Kompetenzen erhoben, welche als Facetten von Mündigkeit verstanden werden können. Dabei wird der Begriff des "Sozialraums" über das Quartierverständnis hinaus erweitert als relationaler Raum und figurativer Ausschnitt von Gesellschaft beschrieben. Im Bewusstsein einer lebensweltnahen Demokratiebildung entwickelt sich der Sozialraum dabei zum Koordinatensystem, aus welchem sich Gütekriterien, fördernde, aber auch hemmende Faktoren eines demokratiebildenden, sozialräumlichen Unterrichts ableiten lassen. Ausgehend von Prozessen der produktiven Realitätsverarbeitung und einer Theorie reflexiver Modernisierung wird Lernen als reflexiver und bewusster Vorgang im Verhältnis von innerer und äußerer Realität sowie im Kontext von Wissen und Nicht-Wissen untersucht. Die Analyse gibt Empfehlungen für verschiedene Fachdidaktiken, beschreibt sozialräumliches Lernen jedoch zugleich als reflektierenden Sozialisationsprozess, der zwar in Schule Verankerung findet, aber zugleich für ein lebenslanges Lernen außerhalb des schulischen Sozialraums spricht.
Unterstütztes Wohnen und Teilhabe (Beiträge zur Teilhabeforschung)
by Friedrich Dieckmann Theresia Heddergott Antonia ThimmDas Buch fasst die Forschung zum unterstützten Wohnen und zur Teilhabe von Menschen mit intellektueller Beeinträchtigung zusammen und weist Richtungen für die inhaltliche und methodische Weiterentwicklung. Im ersten Teil wird die Forschung zum Wohnen mit Unterstützung in der Teilhabeforschung verortet und ein Überblick über die Entwicklung und den Stand der deutschsprachigen und internationalen Wohnforschung gegeben. Der zweite Teil setzt mit der partizipativen Forschung und der Zusammenstellung internationaler standardisierter Erhebungsinstrumente forschungsmethodische Impulse. Im dritten Teil werden innovative Themenfelder (Sozialraum, Organisationskultur, technisch unterstützte Teilhabe, Menschen mit komplexem Unterstützungsbedarf) mit ihren Erkenntnissen und Herausforderungen vorgestellt.Dies ist ein Open-Access-Buch.
Unterstützung in der Nachbarschaft: Struktur und Potenzial für gesellschaftliche Kohäsion
by Sabine Fromm Doris RosenkranzErstmals in Deutschland wird hier eine Studie vorgelegt, die Strukturen, Bedingungen und Potenziale informeller – privater – nachbarschaftlicher Unterstützungen detailliert und repräsentativ für eine Kommune untersucht und darüber hinaus ihr Potenzial für soziale Kohäsion analysiert. Es zeigt sich, dass informelle nachbarschaftliche Unterstützung weit verbreitet ist bzw. ein großes Potenzial dafür existiert. Gleichzeitig wird deutlich, dass sie weder andere private Netzwerke ersetzt, noch sich sozialplanerisch einfordern lässt. Unterstützung in der Nachbarschaft stellt vielmehr eine eigenständige Dimension des Sozialen dar – und eine Komponente gesellschaftlicher Kohäsion.
Untethered: Creating Connected Families, Schools, and Communities to Raise a Resilient Generation
by Doug Bolton Ph.D.An essential guide to restoring our children&’s behavioral health and wellbeingOver the past decade, children&’s mental health challenges have reached epidemic levels—stress, anxiety, childhood depression, and suicide are at unprecedented high rates. Amid high-stakes pressure for kids to succeed, parents and teachers have never needed a road map to healthy child development more urgently. And as psychologist and educator Doug Bolton explains in this eye-opening and powerful guide, underlying our modern-day stresses is an even more pervasive problem: We&’re relying on practices that are not in line with what science tells us about how to truly motivate children and help them thrive.As Bolton persuasively argues, we need to step away from parenting and teaching based on controlling our children with incentives and punishments—they focus on short-term compliance at the cost of health development. Instead, creating healthy and strongly bonded communities for our children, both in our own families and in our schools, is key to their emotional well-being, and their success in life. Untethered offers tools to help us create these communities so our kids develop healthy attachments and learn emotional regulation, helping them feel more connected, less anxious, more included, less shamed, and more securely grounded. The power of communities is not only that they enhance our wellness—they buffer us from the impact of trauma and can be a guiding force in helping kids develop resilience.Weaving in Bolton&’s own experiences as a former principal at a therapeutic school and as a father, Untethered is a deeply empathetic and powerful guide to combating the isolation we see in this generation today, leading them toward a healthier, more interconnected future.
Until We Are Strong Together: Women Writers In The Tenderloin (Language And Literacy Ser.)
by Caroline HellerIn her extraordinary book about the members of the Tenderloin Women Writers Workshop, Caroline Heller witnesses the power of literacy in the lives of these women who gathered weekly in one of San Francisco's roughest neighborhoods, to share their writing and life experiences. In telling their stories as she came to know them during her three years of attendance. Heller brings the group to life and explores the functions the workshop served for its participant, functions that were social, political, and deeply educational. Her eloquent narrative contributes a fresh conception of critical literacy and liberation education, drawing on the words and perceptions of some of those outside the mainstream of American life, enriching our understanding of how we might more effectively learn in community with one anothe, and how to connect writing to real life, to our neighborhood, and to social justice and social change.