Human Work

Companies spend billions of dollars annually on diversity efforts, with remarkably few results. Too often diversity efforts rest on the assumption that all that's needed is an earnest conversation about "privilege." That's not enough. To truly make progress with diversity, equity and inclusion, we must focus less on documenting the problem and more on just stopping the transmission of it.

This book is third in a series by Oswald Sobrino on the philosophy of José Ortega y Gasset. This latest book comments on Ortega's analysis of technology's relation to the human inventor and to the well-being of humans. Ortega's prescient analysis is valuable as we live through the artificial intelligence revolution and advances in computing power and as we face questions about the ultimate goals and ethics of new technology.

Thriving in Disruption: Agile Organizations, Collective Leadership, and New Work is a timely, candid, and refreshing guide towards an in-depth and practical understanding of human-centric agile organizations. Embedded in behavioral science, it encourages the reader to further explore and challenge conventional definitions and assumptions in management theory to rethink approaches. It includes practical suggestions on how to embark on creating an agile organization through collective leadership, suggesting that this journey is imperative to successfully navigate the choppy waters of the era ...

Have you ever wondered if you're truly smart or just busy? It’s time to discover strategies to help you work smarter, not harder. This book will teach you how to streamline your path to success with smart leadership and effective HR leadership techniques. You'll learn how to build your dream team with effective hiring strategies and conduct effective hiring interviews, transforming your hiring process into a powerful tool for growth. Investing wisely in employee orientation, training, and development is essential. A top-notch performance appraisal system paired with effective performance ...

By 2030, the world will be short of approximately 15 million health workers - a fifth of the workforce needed to keep healthcare systems going. Global healthcare leader and award-winning author, Dr. Mark Britnell, uses his unique insights from advising governments, executives, and clinicians in more than 70 countries to present solutions to this impending crisis.

This anthology of interdisciplinary writings looks at the integration of mind, body, and spirit as it plays out in the workplace—whether in birth coaching, teaching parents, assisting the terminally ill, or working in the military, the classroom, or the corporation. These essays reveal what gets in the way of our humanity in the work world and how to rediscover that humanity.

In a world rapidly transformed by artificial intelligence, your ability to thrive depends more on your mindset than your technical skill. Rewiring Your Mind for AI isn’t a technical manual—it’s a survival guide for working professionals, students, educators, leaders, and anyone navigating the accelerating impact of generative AI. Author and educator David A. Wood, Ph.D., argues that the most important shift we need to make isn’t learning to code or mastering AI tools—it’s updating our thinking. In this book, you’ll discover how your long-held beliefs, assumptions, and habits ...

Discover Your Fair Advantage is not just another feel-good self-help book. It's the ultimate guide for anyone feeling overlooked in a business world that seems to reward only a select few. Are you feeling stuck in your career? Are you not getting the recognition you deserve? Are you tired of feeling like just another face in the crowd? If so, Discover Your Fair Advantage is the book for you.

The future of humanity can go one of three ways: 1. We annihilate ourselves and go extinct 2. We continue to muddle along 3. We learn to live forever and fix everything This is a book about option three. It is based on science we have today and numbers that work. It contains a vision of how we make a future in which today's global problems get solved. You will visit a future that is possible in the next several decades. We will discuss extending your lifetime and a myriad of other subjects. Where you previously saw intractable problems, you will now see practical possibilities. I hope, ...

In her early twenties, Charlotte Shane quit her women’s studies graduate program to devote herself to sex work because it was a way to devote herself to men. Her lifelong curiosity about male lust, love, selfishness, and social capital dovetailed with her own insatiable desire for intimacy to sustain a long career in escorting, with unexpectedly poignant results. Shane uses her personal and professional history to examine how men and women struggle in their attempts at romantic and sexual bonding, no matter how true their intentions.

In Garden City, popular pastor and speaker John Mark Comer gives a surprisingly countercultural take on the typical "spiritual" answer of the church. Comer explores Scripture to discover God's original intent for how we are meant to spend our time, reshaping how you view and do your work, rest, and life.

There is a generational transformation in the workforce. But there is good news. Artificial intelligence and machine learning can help improve work processes, thus improving work experience and creating an environment that retains skilled workers.

It is not easy to be certain of the precise origin and meaning of the saying in which my theme is stated. The dictionaries take it as essentially synonymous with "It comes in the course of business," Kipling apparently uses it, in his well-known book, as the title of a collection of stories, to show the very varied things that may come in the course of the day to different kinds of men. I am using the saying, myself, in what I suppose is practically its dictionary meaning, as giving a point of view from which one may well think of the work of his life — a point of view that aims not to ...

This book predicts the decline of today's professions and describes the people and systems that will replace them. In an Internet society, according to Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind, we will neither need nor want doctors, teachers, accountants, architects, the clergy, consultants, lawyers, and many others to work as they did in the 20th century.

Sexploitation exposes the truth to parents, kids, educators, and the medical profession about the seen and unseen influences affecting children, inspiring parents to take the role as the primary sexuality educator. With more information, parents will gain conviction to discuss and develop values, expectations, boundaries, and rules with their kids.

Conquer the Social Work Exams: Your Guide to the LMSW and LCSW Certifications offers a clear, concise study aid for aspiring social workers preparing for their licensing exams. This book is not intended to replace comprehensive study manuals or coursework but is designed to help test takers focus on key principles, reinforce their foundational knowledge, and identify areas that may require deeper review. Each chapter explores critical content areas including human development, clinical diagnosis, assessment strategies, social work ethics, intervention techniques, cultural competence, and ...

Business is on the cusp of an inevitable and profound transformation. The tools of tomorrow will amplify human potential, from collaborating in virtual spaces through digital avatars, to managing transactions transparently on the blockchain. Those who embrace these technologies—and the manner in which people want to work—will unleash unprecedented levels of productivity and innovation. Conversely, those who remain tethered to outdated work patterns risk losing out on the best talent, and even becoming obsolete.

Virtue is more than a word: it's a way for us all to live, a way to flourish as human beings. And when applied to organizational life, virtue serves to enhance engagement, strengthen relationships, and foster success in business. Picking up where the acclaimed Exception to the Rule left off, Better Humans, Better Performance connects the classical Greek virtues—Trust, Compassion, Courage, Justice, Temperance, Wisdom, and Hope—with authoritative science that can help you achieve the highest performance.

Every porn scene is a record of people at work. But on-camera labor is only the beginning of the story. Blending extensive fieldwork with feminist and anti-work theorizing, Porn Work details entrepreneurial labor on the boundaries between pleasure and tedium. Rejecting any notion that sex work is an aberration from straight work, it reveals porn workers' creative strategies as prophetic of a working landscape in crisis. In the end, it looks to what porn has to tell us about what's wrong with work, and what it might look like to build something better.

From blurry vision to crooked teeth, ACLs that tear at alarming rates and spines that seem to spend a lifetime falling apart, it's a curious thing that human beings have beaten the odds as a species. After all, we're the only survivors on our branch of the tree of life. Why is it that human mothers have such a life-endangering experience giving birth? And why are there entire medical specialties for teeth and feet? In this funny, wide-ranging and often surprising book, biologist Alex Bezzerides tells us just where we inherited our achy, brilliant bodies in the process of evolution.