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Despite the statistics, any organization can be sustained. How? By imagining the smallest step with the biggest payoff, and then choosing that one step. This primer helps you imagine ways to free everybody in your organization to do just that, by making it everybody’s business to know and grow the enterprise. Industrial and organizational psychologist Dr. Marta Wilson and her team of experts show how leaders in small businesses, large corporations, government agencies, and military organizations have found their best options by asking this recurring question: What is the smallest step with the biggest return? Wilson believes in the power of asking questions and listening—to customers, em...
WHY DO SOME PEOPLE ADVANCE TO THE LEADING EDGE OF PERFORMANCE, WHILE OTHERS WITH SIMILAR EXPERIENCE AND ABILITY DO NOT? In LEAP: Master Your Superpowers, Soar to the Leading Edge, leadership expert and CEO Marta Wilson teaches what she and her team have learned through a career of applied research--that individuals with certain types of mastery become superstars, and those who don't tend to stall out without achieving their full potential. High performers exhibit mastery in four critical areas of life: 1. PERSONAL 2. INTERPERSONAL 3. ORGANIZATIONAL 4. MOTIVATIONAL Marta Wilson demonstrates that these areas of mastery can be developed and honed by anyone ready to take the leap. Part action plan, part case study, LEAP is packed with tools to help you unleash your potential.
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Welcome to the great race into the future, where organizations foster creative vigilance and empower the leadership potential of everyone who contributes to collective goals. Here, victory after victory is achieved through the relay of clarity, commitment and energy. M. C. Wilson, a champion of leaders in all industries across the globe, has published her proven method for anyone with the will to compete to win. She shows how to launch the transformation that unleashes unimagined capabilities in any organization-one leader at a time. Book jacket.
This book presents multidisciplinary analyses of the historical trajectories of social and economic inequalities in Brazil over the last 50 years. As one of the most unequal countries in the world, Brazil has always been an important case study for scholars interested in inequality research, but in the last few decades has brought a new phenomenon to renew researchers’ interest in the country. While the majority of democracies in the developed world have witnessed an increase in income inequality from the 1970s on, Brazil has followed the opposite path, registering a significant reduction of income inequality over the last 30 years. Bringing together studies carried out by experts from dif...
The contributors to this collection explore the multidimensional transformation of independent Ukraine and deal with her politics, society, private sector, identity, arts, religions, media, and democracy. Each chapter reflects the up-to-date research in its sub-discipline, is styled for use in seminars, and includes a bibliography as well as a recommended reading list. These studies illustrate the deep changes, yet, at the same time, staggering continuity in Ukraine’s post-Soviet development as well as various counter-reactions to it. All nine chapters are jointly written by two co-authors, one Ukrainian and one Western, who respond here to recent needs in international higher education. T...
‘This book can’t give you a six-pack in seven days or the skin of a supermodel. But I can promise that if you make even a few of these adjustments, your eating life will alter for the better in ways that you can sustain.’
This book is like a time capsule containing a selection of interviews that aired on Hromadske Radio’s Ukraine Calling show. They capture what people were thinking during a critical time in the country’s history, from the July 2016 NATO Summit through to Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s 2019 landslide election victories. Decision makers, opinion makers, and other interesting people commented on events of the day as well as larger issues. Topics range from politics to sports, religion, history, war, books, diplomacy, health, business, art, holidays, foreign policy, anniversaries, public opinion to freedom of speech. Interview guests include Canada’s then Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland, writer...
Featuring an extensive collection of full-color photographs, 150 Best Eco House Ideas features eco-friendly house designs created by internationally renowned architects and designers who have achieved practical, innovative, and stunning solutions adapted to the specific needs and tastes of their clients. Included here are the latest innovations in sustainable home design, including solar paneling, wind energy systems, environmentally-friendly heating and cooling solutions, thermal glazing, and trombe walls. 150 Best Eco House Ideas covering the diversity of current trends in sustainable home design, and is both the perfect resource for designers, interior decorators, and architects, as well an inspirational sourcebook for all homeowners interested in creating warm and inviting homes that cause only a fraction of the environmental impact of those created using conventional building methods.
When budgets are strained and changes are a constant on every horizon, it takes effective leadership to reinvigorate the government workplace. In "Energized Enterprise," Dr. Marta Wilson helps you, as a leader in the public sector, be your best, do great things, and achieve meaningful success as you lift your workforce to new heights. Federal agencies allow employees to support fulfilling missions maintaining a robust national park system, wielding the world s best military, and exploring the frontiers of space. These careers are some of the most prestigious and desirable, but still many employees in the public sector are dissatisfied, unmotivated, and disengaged. The good news is that there...