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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Culture can serve as a lever for implementing organizational change. Leaders must start the process by determining the type of change they're seeking -- change that involves reinforcing magnitude, reimagining activity, or rethinking direction. Each approach to change requires leaders to make certain choices about culture. The authors use examples from direct experience in corporate human resources leadership at three different companies to illustrate...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Manners, order and respect, these are all ideals we subscribe to. In opposed positions, we ought to be able to 'agree to disagree'. Today's world is built from structures of standards and reason, but it is imperative to ask who constructed these norms, and why. We are more divided than ever before, along lines of race, gender, class, disability-and it's time to question who benefits the most. What if our propensity to measure human behaviour against...
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Best practices for innovation that build a mission-effective nonprofit. The book is practical, not theoretical. It teaches nonprofit effectiveness step by step with simple, useful points for nonprofit leaders and funders. It also provides examples of common pitfalls, including metrics that incentivize the bad practices and boilerplate vague strategies. The book will synthesize and translate the best ideas and thinkers from the for-profit sector (Deming,...
4) Free period
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English
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"Helen and Gracie are pranking their way through middle school when a stinky stunt lands them in the front office--again. Because nothing else has curbed their chaos, the principal orders the best friends to do the unthinkable: care about something. So they join the school's Community Action Club with plans to do as little as humanly possible. But when Helen is caught unprepared by an early period and bleeds through her pants--they were gold lamé!--the...
5) The artivist
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
Motivated by the realization of global inequities, a young boy embraces his dual identities as an artist and activist, becoming an "Artivist" to make a difference by using his viral mural as a catalyst for positive change.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"It's a simple fact that the people who make policy and oversee government, sports, business, and the arts and entertainment are most commonly white men. Another fact: We cannot achieve meaningful progress if we exclude the very people who have the power to make systemic change. This handbook is free of any attempts to shame, blame, or guilt leaders for the choices they made in the past or privileges they were born with. Instead, listeners will learn...
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"With [this book], ... Oluo aims to show how people across America are working to create real positive change in our structures. Looking at many of our most powerful systems--like education, media, labor, health, housing, policing, and more--she highlights what people are doing to create change for intersectional racial equity. She also illustrates various ways in which the reader can find entryways into change in these same areas, or can bring some...
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