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Leading in organizations working for justice is not the same as leading anywhere else. Staff expect to be, treated as partners and demand, internal practices that center equity. Justice leaders must meet these expectations, as well as recognize and address the ways that individuals and organizations inadvertently replicate oppression.
Created specifically for social justice leaders, Leading for Justice addresses specific concerns and issues, that...
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Workplace injuries are common, avoidable, and unacceptable. The Political Economy of Workplace Injury in Canada reveals how employers and governments engage in ineffective injury prevention efforts, intervening only when necessary to maintain the standard legitimacy. Dr. Bob Barnetson sheds light on this faulty system, highlighting the way in which employers create dangerous work environments yet pour billions of dollars into compensation and treatment....
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¡Di basta al estrés en el trabajo!
Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para aprender a combatir el estrés laboral, que te aportará la información esencial y te permitirá ganar tiempo.
En tan solo 50 minutos podrás:
• Reconocer las tres reacciones posibles frente al estrés: la huida, la lucha y la inercia
• Encontrar lo que produce tu estrés y diseñar un plan para afrontar las futuras situaciones estresantes
• Crear...
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"A useful, forcefully written, and wide-ranging study of inequities-and how to fix them." -Kirkus Reviews
What if we could go beyond the conversation about diversity and take real action?
In early 2021, more than two hundred widely respected experts gathered virtually for the world's most ambitious conversation about diversity. Our aim was to do more than spotlight injustice. We challenged ourselves to imagine how to fix it. The dialogue brought together...
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Tap Into Your Natural Introvert Strengths in the Office with Actionable Tips and Advice. Introverts make up one half of the population, and we’re hardwired to thrive—especially in the workplace! However, it’s not uncommon for introverts to feel out of place in the office, where it seems the only ones succeeding are outgoing personalities ready to toot their own horn. Thea Orozco busts that myth, showing how the workplace is truly a setting for...
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You do not need to climb to the top of the coldest, highest mountain to be Zen. You do not need to crawl on your hands and knees, seal yourself away in a cave, or stop eating birthday cake. Most importantly, at least for this book, you do not have to quit your job to be Zen. In Office Zen, you will learn how Zen can exist in any moment and any place, even the most stressful and high-strung office.
Office Zen will be the first book to incorporate...
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The must-read summary of Alan Robinson and Dean Schroeder's book: "The Idea-Driven Organization".
This complete summary of the ideas from Alan Robinson and Dean Schroeder's book "The Idea-Driven Organization" details how the best ideas to improve a business often come from the front-line. According to Robinson and Schroeder, you should listen to these ideas and apply them. This is exactly what an idea-driven organisation does. For this concept to...
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A must read for anyone serious about the positive power of persuasion, from a leading behavioral change expert. The ability to sway others gives people the power to set new realities into motion. Yet most people could use some work on their communication behaviors in order to increase their long-term ability to influence the people around them. Swayed helps decode the intricate system of influence that relies on mutual attention and understanding....
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"Winner of the Best Information Science Book Award, Association for Information Science and Technology" "Winner of the McGannon Book Award, McGannon Center at Fordham University" "Winner of the Labor Tech Book Award, Labor Tech Research Network" Karen Levy is a faculty member in the Department of Information Science at Cornell University and associated faculty at Cornell Law School. She is a New America Fellow.
A behind-the-scenes look at how digital...
2450) Agent 9: Mind control!
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2022.
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IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Agent 9 is forced to team up with a new partner to take on a seemingly unstoppable new foe: a rogue agent who knows every trick in the S4 book.
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In this, provocative, timely, and painstakingly researched book, the award-winning author of Think Black tells the story of how Black labor helped to create and sustain the wealth of the white one percent throughout American history.
Clyde W. Ford uses the lives of individual Black men and women as a lens to explore the role they have played in creating American institutions of power and wealth-in agriculture, politics, jurisprudence, law enforcement,...
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""Reading Originals made me feel like I was seated across from Adam Grant at a dinner party, as one of my favorite thinkers thrilled me with his insights and his wonderfully new take on the world." --Malcolm Gladwell, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Outliers and The Tipping Point "Originals is one of the most important and captivating books I have ever read, full of surprising and powerful ideas. It will not only change the way you see the...
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The international best-selling book. More than 20 million were sold.
Known as one of the 25 most influential Americans in Time magazine, Stephen R. Covey was one of the world's leading leadership officials.
Covey guided step by step to live with justice, integrity, service and human dignity - the principles that ensure the security of adaptation to change, and wisdom and power to take advantage of the opportunities created by change.
In his best-selling...
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In Leadership Flow: The Unstoppable Power of Connection, author Peri Chickering offers, a refreshing approach to leadership development-a philosophy that is bold and current and yet, in many respects, as old as humanity. Peri proposes there is a flow, an underlying rhythm to life, that fuels and evokes effective leadership. We can all lead more productively and sustainably, in or out of the workplace, by learning to access our natural strengths and...
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An insight into PES policies and practices.
Public Employment Services are confronted with the ever-changing world of work from various angles: as organisation, as employer and as key actor on the labour market. Decisive mega trends such as globalisation, demographic shifts or migration, driven by tremendous technological developments and characterised by a considerable extent of complexity and volatility, have a huge impact on our labour markets...
2456) The Fred factor: how passion in your work and life can turn the ordinary into the extraordinary
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In this parable for a modern age, motivational speaker Sanborn recounts the true story of Fred, the mail carrier who passionately loves his work and who genuinely cares about the people he serves. Sanborn illuminates the simple steps each person can to transform their lives from the ordinary to the extraordinary.
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Un guide pratique et accessible pour découvrir comment aménager un environnement de travail sain et serein.
Ce n'est pas un hasard si les grandes entreprises ont décidé d'investir dans l'aménagement de structures colossales à destination de leurs employés: toutes s'accordent sur la nécessité d'offrir aux travailleurs un environnement de travail sain et serein, leur garantissant à la fois épanouissement personnel et efficacité professionnelle.
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Técnicas y consejos para lograr un entorno laboral positive. Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para mejorar tu entorno laboral, que te aportará la información esencial y te permitirá ganar tiempo.
En tan solo 50 minutos podrás:
• Analizar mediante ejemplos el impacto en tu día a día de un entorno de trabajo positivo o negativo
• Evaluar la importancia de las señales de reconocimiento, imprescindibles para un entorno más...
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Ready to take your career to the next level? Find out everything you need to know about the optimal work environment with this practical guide.
Your working environment has a significant impact on your creativity, stress levels and wellbeing at work. This is increasingly recognised by major companies such as Google, which now favour ultra-modern office spaces and aim to show staff that their contribution is valued. A number of simple steps on both...
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Backyardigans (8x8) volume 7
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Cowboys Tyrone, Pablo, Austin, and Cowgirl Uniqua are on their way to a polka palace party in Wyoming when they run into trouble and lose their instruments. Now they must work together as a team to be able to play at the party.
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