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The Solution Revolution
Government Alone Can’t Solve Society’s Biggest Problems World hunger. Climate change. Crumbling infrastructure. It’s clear that in today’s era of fiscal constraints and political gridlock, we can no longer turn to government alone to tackle these and other towering social problems. What’s required is a new, more collaborative and productive economic system. The Solution Revolution brings hope—revealing just such a burgeoning new economy where players from across the spectrum of business, government, philanthropy, and social enterprise converge to solve big problems and create public value. By erasing public-private sector boundaries, the solution economy is unlocking trillions of...
Design Thinking in Student Affairs
Design thinking is an innovative problem-solving framework. This introduction is the first book to apply its methodology to student affairs and, in doing so, points the way to its potentially wider value to higher education as a whole.With its focus on empathy, which is the need to thoroughly understand users’ experiences, design thinking is user-centered, similar to how student affairs is student-centered. Because the focus of design thinking is to design with users, not for users, it aligns well with student affairs practice. In addition, its focus on empathy makes design thinking a more equitable approach to problem-solving than other methods because all users’ experiences—not just ...
Improv for Democracy
While much has been written about what democracies should look like, much less has been said about how to actually train citizens in democratic perspectives and skills. Amid the social and political crises of our time, many programs seeking to bridge differences between citizens draw from the surprising field of improvisational theater. Improv trains people to engage with one another in ways that promote empathy and understanding. Don Waisanen demonstrates how improv-based teaching and training methods can forward the communication, leadership, and civic skills our world urgently needs. Waisanen includes specific exercises and thought experiments that can be used by educators; advocates for ...
From Conflict to Collaboration
Conflict is both a timely and a timeless challenge in schools, stymying school reform initiatives and elevating administrators’ job stress. If “school is a family,” as many claim, it is often a dysfunctional one. Relationships between and among staff, parents, community and school boards may be destructively divisive, or alternatively, schools may avoid addressing controversial issues like inequity, fearful of tensions that would be unleashed. From Conflict to Collaboration: A School Leader’s Guide to Unleashing Conflict’s Problem Solving Power offers a novel perspective. Rather than impeding school reform, school leaders may harness conflict to spark organizational vitality and gr...
La revolución de las soluciones
Muchos de los problemas sociales y medioambientales ante los que nos enfrentamos en pleno siglo XXI proyectan un panorama oscuro e impredecible en todo el mundo. Los Gobiernos parecen estar desbordados y se ven incapaces de hacer frente a todas las obligaciones y responsabilidades que los ciudadanos les reclaman. Como reacción ante esta aparente pasividad de los Gobiernos, ha surgido una nueva oleada de personas ±impulsoras del cambio? dispuestas a poner su talento y creatividad al servicio de los demás. Es decir, existe una nueva corriente de ciudadanos activos y comprometidos con la sociedad y el medio ambiente que ha decidido aportar soluciones allí donde el Gobierno no es capaz de ha...
I Quit! The Life-Affirming Joy of Giving Up
I Quit! The Life-Affirming Joy of Giving Up will challenge you to rethink quitting and encourage you to re-examine how you make-or don't make-bold choices in your own life. Author Coonoor Behal has written a collection of stories about everyday, real people who summoned the courage to quit things in their lives. Here you'll find intriguing stories of the jobs, people, aspirations, habits, and identities people decided to leave behind; typically in defiance of family, social, and cultural expectations. I Quit! encourages the reader to Be inspired and motivated to make decisive, big life choices Analyze and reframe their own quitting stories Appreciate challenging the status quo with irreverent humor Let I Quit!The Life-Affirming Joy of Giving Up be the motivation you need to upend the status quo and make a positive change for yourself.
Solution economy
Fame nel mondo, cambiamento climatico, infrastrutture che si sgretolano: nell'attuale era di ristrettezze finanziarie e difficoltà politiche non possiamo più rivolgerci ai soli governi per affrontare questi e altri grandissimi problemi sociali. Occorre - ed è già nato - un nuovo sistema economico, più collaborativo e produttivo, in cui amministrazioni pubbliche, aziende, imprese sociali, non profit e cittadini convergono per creare valore, pubblico e privato. È la "Solution Economy" che attraverso il crowdfunding, la condivisione delle risorse, lo sviluppo di app e investimenti mirati sta disegnando nuove soluzioni per problemi apparentemente non risolvibili: dalla congestione del traf...
Chinese Indentured Labour in the Dutch East Indies, 1880–1942
This book offers a comprehensive account of indentured Chinese labour in the Dutch East Indies between 1880 and 1942, particularly in its twilight years after 1917. The author shows that Chinese indenture started and evolved differently from other forms of bonded labour in Southeast Asia and globally, including its Indian and Javanese variants. This difference is reflected in its lexicon, which was in part special to the Chinese strain. Using fieldwork findings from the tin islands of Bangka and Belitung and the Deli plantations on Sumatra as well as archival materials in Dutch, Chinese, and other languages held in libraries in Java, Nanjing, Taipei, Hong Kong, and Leiden, this book presents cutting-edge research that sets out to contribute to the revising of our historical understanding of indenture.
Bridging Differences for Better Mentoring
This first comprehensive guide to helping mentors and mentees bridge gaps between and among cultures—a growing issue in today's diverse workplace—is coauthored by the founder and CEO of the Center for Mentoring Excellence. As the workplace has become more diverse, mentoring has become more challenging. Mentors and mentees may come from very different backgrounds and have limited understanding of each other's cultures and outlooks. But mentoring remains the most powerful tool for creating meaningful relationships, furthering professional development, and increasing engagement and retention. Younger workers and emerging leaders in particular are demanding it. Lisa Z. Fain and Lois J. Zacha...
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