How to Live Longer And Reduce Effects of Aging
As America’s “baby boomers” move into middle age and more people live well beyond their 60’s, researchers are exploring why the body ages and how we might fend off aging’s …
Principles of Exercising Leadership
About this course In todays time when numerous adaptive challenges are generated in family life, communities, societies and organization, the need for leadership is critical to mobilize people to cope …
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 …
Anchor Yourself
In this final section, 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 …
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. With such onerous associations, it’s no wonder …
Take Action: Build Trust
The Components of 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. Stakeholder Map Chances are, you’ve …
Lead With, Beyond, and Without Authority
The Nature of Authority All of this is beginning to help us explain why we see so little leadership from people in authority. So how would you disappoint people at …
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 …