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LIVE better LEAD differently

Are you ready to change the leadership conversation? The concepts contained in this book will forever change how you view leadership and give you the ability to deliver enhanced value to those gathered at the conference table, the Board table and, most importantly, the kitchen table. The greatest benefit from the information contained within these pages is reserved for the most important person you lead on a daily basis, you! This book was written not to add to the leadership conversation but rather to forever change the way leadership is viewed. Together we will explore what, how and, most importantly, the why behind each of these new and helpful concepts. Ultimately, you will be prepared to LIVE better and LEAD differently, in your own way. Your newly discovered perceptions will enable you to effectively influence those around you and help them to grow. Once you learn to perceive the world differently you will never stop learning. Out of this never-ending quest for understanding will develop a sense of peace and joy that few will ever experience. These are your rewards for delivering value to those around you and, especially, to that person in the mirror. May you never stop learning!

Orgasm

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Marion Schneider interviews 25 women described by The Huffington Post as a raw, sensual and multifarious view of [the] female orgasm  further eliminating the stigma and shame too often associated with the topic.”

Twisted Leadership

Charles C. Manz

Discover a new way of thinking about leadership – learn how anyone, at any level of an organization, can be a leader. Today’s business, political, and not-for-profit worlds are plagued by a leadership disease – the overly simplistic view of leadership as something that resides in one person, or a few people, who influence lower-level subordinates. This wrong-headed view of leadership is dangerous – it fosters corruption, abuse of power, and the waste of human talent. Twisted Leadership offers a cure for this leadership disease. The book shows you that leadership is a dynamic, complex social process, not just a role occupied by an individual at the top. You’ll learn how to combine four practical strategies – self, super, shared, and socially responsible leadership – to create a new kind leadership that can be exchanged among all members of an organization based on the context, goals, knowledge, experience, or general needs of everyone involved. It’s the ultimate cure for the leadership disease. Learn: How the leadership disease was originally contracted what damage it can do Why today’s common approaches to leadership practice aren’t good enough How to view leadership as a process, not just a role How to use the four strategies of twisted leadership to treat the disease The book concludes with prescriptions to facilitate sustainable twisted leadership. You’ll discover how the lines between leaders and followers (who often know more and are in a better position to exercise leadership over themselves and others at key points in work processes) have become blurred. And after reading this book, you’ll see that a new kind of leadership has arrived, just in time.

Practical Project Management for Agile Nonprofits

Karen R.J. White

Practical Project Management for Agile Nonprofits introduces nonprofit managers to the basic concepts of project management and provides dozens of templates to help you quickly implement practices to effectively manage your limited resources, financial and volunteer. The book emphasizes using appropriate project management practices, those that are not burdensome but rather agile in their approach. In keeping with this theme, the book explores how you can use social media to assist in the management of time-sensitive projects.You will learn how to apply just enough project management to: Be an active leader and a superior project manager; Respond with agility to change and the unexpected; Focus efforts on what truly matters; Recruit and engage a new generation of volunteers; Build a framework that ensures project success; Keep all stakeholders involved with the project satisfied.The book also addresses nonprofit governance and shows you how project portfolio management can be used to assist in communicating with boards of directors and other governing entities when crucial resource decisions need to be made.Finally, real-world case studies on project planning, portfolio management, and volunteer-managed projects will show you how others have achieved project

Otherwise Engaged

John Guaspari

Ask leaders what their biggest challenge is, and they're likely to say: «It's the people part of the job . . . the soft stuff . . . the so-called intangibles.» Otherwise Engaged shines a bright light on the cause of this challenge: a fundamental misunderstanding of the true nature of intangibles, like engagement, empowerment, respect. The book focuses on the too-often overlooked first step in any such effort: How to stop doing the things that cause people to dis-engage. Once you gain a better, deeper understanding of the true nature of the intangibles, you'll discover that you already know what to do in order to be more effective in this domain. Through a story told in a light, humorous style, the author helps you discover what the problem is. You'll learn why good faith efforts to promulgate values throughout an organization can be ineffectual and, in some cases, even damaging. In the process, you'll develop a felt need to challenge the assumptions under which you've been working and to become more open to the possibility of considering a different way.

Demystifying Talent Management

Kimberly Janson

Demystifying Talent Management offers practical advice for all managers, HR professionals, senior leaders, and other employees on how to work together to build a talented and motivated workforce. The book addresses performance, development, coaching, feedback, compensation, and other elements of people management. Using simple, straightforward language, Kim Janson tells you how you can avoid confusion and conflicts when engaging in talent management.You'll learn: What performance is needed and expected: how to translate your company's strategy into individual performance; What it means to measure and track progress, simply and clearly; What you can and should do to help an individual's development; How to narrow your focus to improve a skill, knowledge, or experience; How to take both an individual's profile and the direction of the organization into account in career development and succession planning; How to make compensation (cash, public accolades, feedback, etc.) a true driver of results; How coaching and feedback are essential in bringing all the elements of talent management together.This book will guide you to a deeper understanding of the mechanics of talent management and development success so that all the stakeholders can come together in a win-win-win-win scenario.

Project Management Essentials

William P. Athayde

If you're new to project management or need to refresh your knowledge, Project Management Essentials, Third Edition, is the quickest and easiest way to learn how to manage projects successfully. The simple techniques and templates in this book provide you with the essential tools you'll need to be an effective project manager. It's as simple as that.Read the book and discover: How to plan well – to decide on the right things to do; The key skills and knowledge you'll need to be effective; How to create an effective charter to start projects off right; Guidelines for building a usable project plan; Tips for breaking project work into manageable pieces; Techniques for estimating project cost and schedule; How to build a team; Strategies to deal with conflict, change, and risk; How to report on the progress of the project and keep everyone concerned happy.Project Management Essentials is written in short, clear chapters to make project management more easily understood. The authors, all valued senior faculty of PM College, use both their business experience and their academic backgrounds to make these chapters come alive.This updated edition complies with the latest project management standard, the PMBOK Guide 5th Edition.

Voices on South Asia

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This book investigates the contemporary social, political and economic issues faced by women in South Asia. It focuses on the policies and practices that have challenged or perpetuated gender inequalities, and the evolving role of women in South Asian societies. With contributions from practitioners, policy makers, academics and civil society activists from across South Asia, this volume provides a broad and diverse range of viewpoints on South Asian women's labour force participation, political participation, education, and health, as well as country-specific insights.The volume is conceived as a stage for debate where specific insights act as a window into wider themes, practices and policies. Each essay is followed by policy-relevant recommendations and suggestions for avenues to improve current practice. This book will be relevant for undergraduate students and lecturers of South Asian studies, development, and policy studies, as well as industry practitioners.Contents: <ul><li>Rights, Representation, and Political Participation:<ul><li>No Ceilings, Just Half the Sky! (Meera Sanyal)</li><li>A Silent Revolution Happening: Nepal's Experiment with Inclusive Elections (Ila Sharma)</li><li>Women's Rights and Gender Inequalities in Nepal (Kripa Basnyat)</li><li>Women in the Bangladeshi Newspaper Industry: Waiting for Policy (Kajalie Shehreen Islam)</li></ul></li><li>Challenging Gender-Based Violence and Discrimination:<ul><li>The Legal Discourse Addressing Violence Against Women in Bangladesh (Taslima Yasmin)</li><li>Transport Solutions for Violence Against Women in India (Vani Swarupa Murali)</li><li>Menstrual Taboo, Discriminatory Access to Places of Worship, and the Policing of Female Bodies in India: The Case of Sabarimala (Silvia Tieri)</li><li>Dalit Women's Narratives and Autobiographical Writing: Methodological Interventions (Anusha Hariharan)</li><li>Purdah in an In-Between Space — An Auto-Ethnography of a Bangladeshi Woman (Sharin Shajahan Naomi)</li></ul></li><li>Development, Education, and Health:<ul><li>Women, Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), and the Bangladesh Miracle (Nayma Qayum)</li><li>Climate Change, Women, and Environmental Movements in India (Pushpa Singh)</li><li>Against All Odds: Breaking New Ground (Baela Raza Jamil)</li><li>Women, Education, and Knowledge-Based Economy in Sri Lanka: Opportunities and Challenges (Chulanee Attanayake)</li><li>Heard and Hard Reality of Maternal Health: Are We Oversimplifying the Challenges in Bangladesh? (Kaosar Afsana)</li><li>Bridging Gender Inequality in Sanitation in India: Swachh Bharat Mission and Beyond (Deepa Karthykeyan)</li></ul></li><li>Labour Force Participation:<ul><li>Systemic Issues Affecting Female Labour Force Participation in Sri Lanka (Nisha Arunatilake)</li><li>Bhutanese Women in the Workforce (Madhu Rajput)</li><li>Female Labour Force Participation in Pakistan (Hadia Majid)</li></ul></li></ul> Readership: Undergraduate students and lecturers of South Asian studies, development, and policy studies, as well as industry practitioners and policymakers.South Asia;Women;Gender;Development;Health;Labour Force Participation;Political Participation;Women's Rights;Violence Against Women;Education;India;Pakistan;Bangladesh;Nepal;Sri Lanka0Key Features:<ul><li>Written by a diverse range of experts: practitioners, policy makers, academics and civil society activists from across South Asia</li><li>Each essay concludes with policy-relevant recommendations, suggesting improvements to current practice</li><li>Accessible, with a hands-on rather than a theoretical approach, appealing to a wide audience</li></ul>

Bathroom Battlegrounds

Alexander K. Davis

Today’s debates about transgender inclusion and public restrooms may seem unmistakably contemporary, but they have a surprisingly long and storied history in the United States—one that concerns more than mere “potty politics.” Alexander K. Davis takes readers behind the scenes of two hundred years’ worth of conflicts over the existence, separation, and equity of gendered public restrooms, documenting at each step how bathrooms have been entangled with bigger cultural matters: the importance of the public good, the reach of institutional inclusion, the nature of gender difference, and, above all, the myriad privileges of social status. Chronicling the debut of nineteenth-century “comfort stations,” twentieth-century mandates requiring equal-but-separate men’s and women’s rooms, and twenty-first-century uproar over laws like North Carolina’s “bathroom bill,” Davis reveals how public restrooms are far from marginal or unimportant social spaces. Instead, they are—and always have been—consequential sites in which ideology, institutions, and inequality collide.

Cohabitation Nation

Amanda Miller

“We have fun and we enjoy each other’s company, so why shouldn’t we just move in together?”—Lauren, from Cohabitation Nation   Living together is a typical romantic rite of passage in the United States today. In fact, census data shows a 37 percent increase in couples who choose to commit to and live with one another, forgoing marriage. And yet we know very little about this new “normal” in romantic life. When do people decide to move in together, why do they do so, and what happens to them over time? Drawing on in-depth interviews, Sharon Sassler and Amanda Jayne Miller provide an inside view of how cohabiting relationships play out before and after couples move in together, using couples’ stories to explore the he said/she said of romantic dynamics. Delving into hot-button issues, such as housework, birth control, finances, and expectations for the future, Sassler and Miller deliver surprising insights about the impact of class and education on how relationships unfold. Showcasing the words, thoughts, and conflicts of the couples themselves, Cohabitation Nation offers a riveting and sometimes counterintuitive look at the way we live now.