Conclusion: Staying Alive
We’ve barely scratched the surface when it comes to the concepts and strategies necessary to thrive and stay alive. As you go forward, I encourage you to put ideas into action routinely and regularly.
Anchor Yourself
we turn inward to consider personal resources for surviving and thriving through the dangers of change. What beliefs, rituals, places, and individuals keep you anchored? How do you hold steady?
Take Action: Orchestrate Conflict
Many of us will go to great lengths to avoid conflict. Even reading the word can, for some, stimulate powerful feelings of discomfort or anxiety.
Take Action: Build Trust
Trust is the essential connector. We all live interdependently and have to look to one another to fulfill routine services and help each other every day.
Take Action: Think Politically
All organizations are political. By understanding and acknowledging the political aspects of the system, you help mobilize others to meet the demand for adaptive work.
Lead With, Beyond, and Without Authority
Leadership is usually practiced in some context. Even if you’re leading without any authority, you still need to understand that you’re leading into a social system in which there are authority structures and authority relationships.
Introduction: The Need for Leadership
The Need for Leadership Our common thinking about leadership usually starts by calling to mind certain people we see as leaders and asking: What it is about them that makes
Income Inequality Between Rich And Poor
Income inequality is an economic condition in which monetary earnings vary significantly among society members, creating a vast disparity in wealth. Income refers to wages—the money paid to employees as compensation for work
Athletes and Sports and COVID-19
Sports are recreational activities that require some degree of physical strength, skill, or stamina.
Workplace Diversity – Its Benefits and Challenges
A diverse workplace is an employment environment made up of employees with a broad range of personal characteristics, experiences, skills, and perspectives. Some of the traits that contribute to diversity in the American workforce include differences in gender, race, ethnicity, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion, education, socioeconomic background, and political beliefs.
How Important is Money?
Economists are fascinated by the idea of importance of money as a social institution— an agreement among individuals—that, if we keep it, makes our economic lives better and allows our economies to grow more rapidly.
Universal Basic Income
As income inequality increases in the United States, economists and politicians have proposed wide-ranging ideas for distributing wealth more fairly and ensuring that all Americans—rather than only the richest few—benefit from the nation’s resources, productivity, and technological advances.