As the world approaches the middle of the twenty-first century, octogenarians Donald Lasserman and Richard Adamo maintain unbridled hope and vision for a more promising future. They unite several retired world leaders, including a former nemesis, to brainstorm ideas for a better world. While this happens, Donald’s self-made billionaire nephew, Nate, goes up against a terrorist kidnapping in the Panamanian rainforest and a coup in Cuba. Packed with intellectual stimulation and thrilling action, hopefully the content highlighted in this book will prompt readers to consider solutions and improvements for our everyday lives. This is the author’s second fiction work, following The Great Divorce (2018). While a sequel, it is also an entry point if you pay attention to the prologue. This book builds on the chaos of the first, fostering ideas and dreams for a more united and civilized world.

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Drawing on work and positive psychology, this insightful book addresses contemporary workplace challenges and analyses evidence-based interventions in the employee wellbeing domain. Recent years have seen significant developments in the area of employee wellbeing, with many organisations becoming more interested in wellbeing at work. This book begins by contextualising employee wellbeing before and after the onset of the pandemic and demonstrates how employers are seeking advice and proactively implementing wellbeing policies and practices. It goes on to consider such issues as employee voice, employee growth mindset, burnout, quiet quitting, sleep hygiene, workplace isolation and psychological safety. Each chapter is supported by thought-provoking questions and activities that encourage readers to reflect on their learning and apply their understanding of the material in practice, as well as suggestions for further reading that offer resources for continued study. The book closes by analysing a range of specific interventions that organisations can employ, including potential pitfalls to avoid. In so doing, it offers clear, practical guidance for employers looking to improve employee wellbeing in their organisation. Employee Wellbeing is an important read for stakeholders within and outside of organisations, and will also be of interest to students and academics studying work psychology, organisational behaviour, wellbeing at work and related fields.

Few other nations have undergone as profound a change in their social, political, and cultural life as Mongolia did in the twentieth century. Beginning the century as a largely rural, nomadic, and tradition-oriented society, the nation was transformed by the end of this century into a largely urban, post-industrial, and cosmopolitan one. This study seeks to understand the effects that Western-inspired modernity has had on the nature of cultural tradition in the country, focusing in particular on development of the morin khuur or "horse-head fiddle," a two-stringed bowed folk lute that features a horse’s head carved into its crown. As well as being one of the most popular instruments in the contemporary national musical culture, it has also become an icon of Mongolian national identity and a symbol of the nation’s ancient cultural heritage. In its modern form, however, the horse-head fiddle reflects the values of a modern, cosmopolitan society that put it profoundly at odds with those of the traditional society. In so doing, it also reflects the cosmopolitan nature of the nation’s contemporary national musical culture.

What Matters Most A powerful generation already in motion is extending and deepening its roots before our very eyes, a generation not defined by age but rather by heart. A rapidly growing segment of leaders whose work integrates action in the world with what matters most to the heart and spirit are reimagining, rethinking, rebuilding, and renewing the world around us. Individuals, businesses, and corporations must understand, cater to, leverage, and ultimately join this generation if they wish to succeed in the future. For, in the end, there is only one generation that will matter to the planet and that is the Re Generation. This uplifting book gives you permission to not only reimagine a future of greater congruence between your deep values and outer actions, but to hear your own promptings for becoming an uncompromising force for good in the world and advance skills to help usher this new world into creation.

The post-pandemic era has brought about significant disruptions to the human resources management function, exacerbating existing challenges such as labor shortages and global skills gaps. As a result, effectively managing employee engagement and productivity in a multigenerational workforce has become more challenging than ever. Enhancing Employee Engagement and Productivity in the Post-Pandemic Multigenerational Workforce, editors Even and Christiansen provide a holistic perspective on the changing global landscape of human resources management. The book offers practical insights and strategies for managing employee engagement and productivity in a multigenerational workforce, including DEI, work-life balance, job satisfaction, and hiring and retention practices. Targeting academic scholars in the human resource management sphere, this publication offers a contemporary resource that addresses the current challenges faced by businesses and organizations. Whether you're a scholar-practitioner or graduate student, this book provides a comprehensive guide to navigating the post-pandemic multigenerational workforce and enhancing employee engagement and productivity.

Decline and Reimagination in Cinematic New York examines the cinematic representation of New York from the mid-1960s through the mid-1980s, placing the dominant discourse of urban decline in dialogue with marginal perspectives that reimagine the city along alternative paths as a resilient, adaptive, and endlessly inspiring place. Drawing on mainstream, independent, documentary, and experimental films, the book offers a multifaceted account of the power of film to imagine the city’s decline and reimagine its potential. The book analyzes how filmmakers mobilized derelict space and various articulations of “nature” as settings and signifiers that decenter traditional understandings of the city to represent New York alternately as a desolate wasteland, a hostile wilderness, a refuge and playground for outcasts, a home to resilient and resourceful communities, a studio for artistic experimentation, an arcadia conducive to alternative social arrangements, and a complex ecosystem. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of film studies, media studies, urban cinema, urban studies, and eco-cinema.

Recruiting, hiring and retaining great people are the most important skill sets any manager can acquire. With talented and dedicated people, any business can succeed! Without great people, every business will fail. Yet many managers recruit only when they have a job opening, often settling for those who are only “good enough”. Yet hiring the right people is an ongoing process, not a one-time activity. Did you know that 83% of workers are unhappy with their jobs and that 68% are actively looking for a new career opportunity? Great managers keep in contact frequently with qualified recruits and talk to candidates every 3 months. Poor managers wait until they have a need, and then hire the wrong people! Unfortunately, many managers often hire those who are most like them instead of who are best suited for the open position. But great managers “hire slow, fire fast." They interview effectively and check the candidate’s past performance before making an offer. How someone produced and behaved in the past is likely how they will produce and behave in the future. In this book, How to Recruit and Hire and Retain Great People, you will learn: The 3-month call script and how you can use it to source great people. How to use the 5 Step Bridge to find out each candidate’s needs and goals. The 11 key questions and how to weight them to objectively select the right person for the right job The 4 Step Training Approach that will help each candidate produce faster results. How the Let’s Assume Technique will help you retain great people longer.

Career Planning for a Happier Life Take ownership of your career path. This is your unique journey. The upheaval marking the early 2020s has created the “great opportunity”—an unprecedented chance to prioritize your life and decide what you really want from your career. You can now create a strong personal brand and pursue career activities that are authentic to your goals, not your employer’s. It is within your reach to have autonomy and control over your career, have greater clarity of your priorities, and align your career around the life you want to live. Live for a Living is a guide to designing a life that leverages your personal values, motivators, and goals in your career. With inspiring case studies, accessible exercises, and online self-assessments, authors Caligiuri and Palmer reveal how to identify your ideal career, then purposefully expand and create career-related activities to do more of what you love. Distinguished business professor, speaker, and author Paula Caligiuri joins forces with award-winning serial entrepreneur Andy Palmer to bring you a timely resource on crafting income-producing career activities that result in more professional excitement, personal fulfillment, and financial security. Are you ready to take control of your career?

In this issue of Nursing Clinics of North America, guest editor and associate professor of clinical nursing Dr. Joni Tornwall brings her considerable expertise to the topic of The Future of Nursing: Advancing Nursing Education and Practice Through Technology. Ideal for both direct-care nurses and nurse educators, this issues presents articles related to quality and safety, disaster preparedness, simulation education, nursing resilience and self-care, inclusion, interprofessional education and practice, and continuing education for nurses. Articles also explore innovations in the use of technology in teaching and practice, including forensic nursing, mentorship for diverse learner populations, instructor and practitioner presence in telehealth and virtual clinical instruction, and practical applications in nursing policy and ethics. - Contains 14 practice-oriented topics including on-the-go strategies to enhance resilience and self-care: using technology to create healthy cultures; why quality and safety education matters in nursing practice; physical assessment skills in education and practice; disaster preparedness: keeping nursing staff and students at the ready; how to use interprofessional education and collaborative practice (IPECP) and technology to improve academic and practice outcomes; and more. - Provides in-depth clinical reviews on advancing nursing education and practice through technology, offering actionable insights for clinical practice. - Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.