[PDF] Stretching Your Boundaries eBook

Author : Jeremy Fyke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 20,74 MB
Release : 2016-08-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1135038511

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Stretching Boundaries: Cases in Organizational and Managerial Communication focuses on non-traditional organizations in a variety of contexts. Because cases range from small family-owned entrepreneurships and cybervetting to provincial egovernment democratic movements in China, this supplemental text enables a reexamination of the boundaries of traditional organizational contexts. Cases delve into organizing structures, relationships, and visions for global not-for-profits, hybrid, creative industry, and entrepreneurial organizations. This book stands to benefit instructors and students in at least four ways. First, it provides instructors with an application-based teaching tool to help spark discussion. Second, students will find the case studies interesting and applicable to their future work lives, especially undergraduates who will soon be in the work force. Additionally, cases help students grasp course materials that may be otherwise challenging. Finally, for graduate students, the book encourages reflection on important topics for future research.

Author : James Brook
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 43,85 MB
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1780884184

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There are a myriad of different leadership models and approaches, many of which are highly descriptive about the type of personality and qualities you need in order to be an effective leader.However, recent research shows that successful leaders don’t achieve success in the same way. They have unique strengths, skills and qualities that they draw on to achieve their results. What they do have in common is a true understanding of and an ability to leverage their ‘leadership edge’ – their unique strengths, abilities and skills – to influence and inspire others to achieve extraordinary results.Effective leadership is also about ‘positive stretch’ – stretching yourself and your team to push the boundaries and achieve the upper range of your collective strengths and capabilities. This is particularly relevant in today’s uncertain and competitive environment and markets, where organisations – private, public and voluntary – are all being challenged to do more with less, work smarter and optimise discretionary effort, ideas and morale of their workforce.Stretch is written as a fable and follows the journey of a leader with a deficit – or weakness-oriented – mindset, gaining insight and experience about how to lead more effectively through stretching and optimising his own strengths, as well as the strengths of the workforce, to achieve outstanding results. The book’s practical advice and theories are channelled through an accessible work of fiction, rather than an academic text, making the book relevant to a wide audience. Stretch will particularly appeal to business leaders and managers interested in leadership.

Author : Maja Mikula
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 18,56 MB
Release : 2006-01-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1136782710

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Throughout history, women have participated in and sometimes initiated rebellions to defend the welfare of their family, community, class, race or ethnic group. This volume presents original research on women's activism in Asia, Europe, Australia and Latin America. It explores how women have advanced social change and their influence on, and response to, existing transformations in society. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the authors examine women's activities and conditions in diverse social and political contexts, from revolutionary societies, to status quo societies, to societies in decline. With its primary focus on agency and social change, this book deconstructs patriarchal discourses and unearths aspects of female agency in an array of cultural, historical and geopolitical contexts. Chapters on movements in China, Japan, Australia, Croatia, Russia and a range of other countries both contribute to our understanding of change in those societies and seek to locate women at the center of politically aware movements. Although not exclusively a book about feminist activism, this essential collection is motivated by the feminist desire to restore to history a range of women's experiences. This book introduces new ways of thinking across boundaries, identities and complexities in a still essentially patriarchal world. It will be of great interest to students and researchers in the fields of gender studies, activism and comparative politics.

Author : Nedra Glover Tawwab
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 36,78 MB
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 0593421485

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An accessible, step-by-step resource for setting, communicating, and enforcing healthy boundaries at home, at work, and in life We all want to have healthy boundaries. But what does that really mean – and what steps are needed to implement them in our daily lives? Sought-after therapist and relationship expert Nedra Glover Tawwab presents clear explanations and interactive exercises to help you gain insight and then put it into action. Filled with thought-provoking checklists, questions, writing prompts, and more, The Set Boundaries Workbook is a valuable tool for everyone who wants to speak up for what they want and need, and show up more authentically in the world.

Author : Marilyn Moffat
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 34,37 MB
Release : 1999-04-15
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0805055711

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The American Physical Therapy Association Book of Body Maintenance and Repair explores the mechanical workings of every moving part of the body, explains what can go wrong, and then provides a complete program for ensuring the greatest long-term health for that area and tells you how to respond when injuries occur. Whether your concern is a sore back, an injured knee, or general strength and flexibility, no other book can lead the way to total body health as effectively or authoritatively as The American Physical Therapy Association Book of Body Maintenance and Repair. Book jacket.

Author : Dr. Peter Shaw
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 16,95 MB
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9814794953

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Leaders in every country and sector are addressing rapid change resulting from economic, technological, cultural, communication and social developments. The pace of change is unparalleled. Many leaders feel behind the curve as companies are merging and restructuring in response to these developments. This addition to the highly successful 100 Great Ideas series, readers will equip leaders to face uncertainty with confidence and equanimity. At the same time, the book teaches the team to accept the inevitability of rapid change and see opportunities going forward and not be overwhelmed by fears or apprehensions. This book will provide a manual for teams to discuss and agree on a shared approach going forward. The author has included provide case-scenarios to illustrate the learning points and these are a good reference point for anyone who leads a team in managing rapid change at work or who is affected by company reorganisation and right-sizing.

Author : Jude Jennison
Publisher : Practical Inspiration Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 15,67 MB
Release : 2021-06-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1788602595

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Is your senior leadership team fully aligned and ready for fast-paced change? Even the most cohesive teams can find themselves derailed by the uncertainty of change. High workloads increase stress, changing priorities cause confusion and the frustration of unresolved differences of opinion creates tension and division in teams. Join thousands of leaders and teams who have already benefitted from revealing the hidden dynamics of their non-verbal behaviour and discover how you too can use it to align your team, reduce stress, increase understanding and resolve differences of opinion with more trust and transparency so your team: Is full of vitality and vigour, excited about possibilities Has clear objectives, pulling seamlessly together in one direction Knows exactly what to think, say and do to get the best from each other Drawing on a decade of Equine Facilitated Leadership to fine-tune the skills of leaders and teams, Opus reveals the 12 hidden dynamics that every team needs to make visible to achieve optimal team performance “Unambiguously brilliant.” Adrian Packer CBE, CEO, Core Education Trust “Opus could seriously result in a significant improvement in both relationships and performance, for you and your teams.” Gina Lodge, CEO, The Academy of Executive Coaching JUDE JENNISON is an Executive Team Coach, developing senior leadership teams through disruptive change. She is the creator of the Leadership Academy Online and works experientially with a herd of horses to provide life-changing aha moments that reduce stress, align teams and accelerate results.

Author : Christian Bason
Publisher : BenBella Books
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 18,86 MB
Release : 2022-05-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1637740743

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Today, it can seem as if the world has nothing but problems. And more than ever the boundaries of those problems are expanding in terms of the speed, scale, and impact by which they can alter business conditions, public governance, entire societies, the health of our planet, and the quality of our lives. Meeting these growing challenges requires ambitious new ways of designing solutions. With Expand: Stretching the Future By Design, authors Jens Martin Skibsted, a multiple-award winning designer, entrepreneur, and design philosopher, and Christian Bason, political scientist and CEO of the Danish Design Centre, take readers beyond “design thinking” to challenge current habits and carve out new space for more sustainable innovation. From transforming the ways we do business and reimagining health care, to creating planet-restoring housing and humanizing our digital lives in an age of AI, Expand explores how expansive thinking across six key areas—time, proximity, value, life, dimensions, and sectors—can provide radical, useful solutions to a whole host of current problems around the globe. With powerful real-world examples, the book challenges our freewheeling belief in technological determinism and its insensitivity toward ethics, humanity, and the environment. Expand is the first book to not just critique design thinking, but welcome it as a starting point for an ambitious, wide-ranging tale of how to expand and think beyond it. The best way to predict the future is to design it. Expand is the book that shows us how.