Finding A Future That Fits

No one has ever said living the life of your dreams is easy. It takes drive and determination, persistence and patience, faith and trust in the wonderful power within but most importantly, it takes ACTION! So read this book if: ...you know there's something more for you ...you know you want to make big changes ...you know you want a better way to live And you want to find out how to get it. Finding a Future that Fits makes sure that you live YOUR authentic life. It's full of insights and practical exercises which provide a step-by-step guide to achieving the life you really want. Are you ready to find a future that fits? If so, your journey begins here...

Jobs are changing, technology is accelerating, and we must adapt with new skills. Award-winning author, Andrea Clarke, shares advice for upgrading our skills to suit a competitive workplace.The need for skills that defy disruption has never been so urgent, as traditional workplace models give way to confronting new rules of engagement. If you're looking for job security, growth and acceleration in a radical, new workforce, then Future Fit is the place to start.Award-winning author Andrea Clarke shares her experience, expertise and tactical advice on how to become truly Future Fit. “The future of work is here and it's about talent &– your talent. It's about upgrading our human skills because they're landing differently in a hybrid environment,” says Clarke. “These skills are powerful differentiators in a dynamic and demanding new workplace.”Using her experience from a vibrant and varied career, Clarke explores the eight &‘real skills' we need for the 2020s: Reputation Capital, Adaptability, Communication, Networking, Creativity, Problem-solving, Leadership and Learning.A former Washington D.C. news reporter, Iraqi humanitarian aid worker and EdTech pioneer, Clarke founded FutureFitCo in 2012 &– a business that trains emerging leaders to accelerate these core competencies. The Future Fit Digital Program, adapted from this book, is delivered globally to multi-national organisations.

This innovative book investigates the concept of collapse in terms of our built environment, exploring the future transition of modern cities towards scenarios very different from the current promises of progress and development. This is not a book about the end of the world and hopeless apocalyptic scenarios. It is about understanding change in how and where we live. Collapse is inevitable, but in the built environment collapse could imply a manageable situation, an opportunity for change or a devastating reality. Collapsing gracefully means that there might be better ways to coexist with collapse if we learn more about it and commit to rebuild our civilisations in ways that avoid its worst effects. This book uses a wide range of practical examples to study critical changes in the built environment, to contextualise and visualise what collapse looks like, to see if it is possible to buffer its effects in places already collapsing and to propose ways to develop greater resilience. The book challenges all agents and institutions in modern cities, their designers and planners as well as their residents and users to think differently about built environment so as to ease our coexistence with collapse and not contribute to its causes. .

What capabilities do leaders need to effectively navigate the complexities of today's digital, dynamic, disruptive landscape? Drawing on groundbreaking research, this book explores how leaders shape a philosophy for human-centered organisations aligned with Generations Y and Z values, steering towards agile, innovative, and regenerative leadership. Based on over two decades of experience in leadership development in global corporations and academia, the author provides an innovative framework for future-fit leadership development. This practical framework supports you to: Identify core capabilities for leading a multigenerational workforce through digital transformation. Evaluate personal leadership strengths and development potential. Foster future-fit leadership within teams and across the organisation. Lead organisational transformation through the development of future-fit leadership. In a world of constant change, future-fit leadership becomes the cornerstone of sustainable success. These leaders, possessing vision, adaptability, and resilience, navigate complexities to create thriving organisations. Prioritising agility, future-fit leaders foster responsiveness and continuous learning. Nurturing diversity and inclusivity, they unlock collective intelligence, fueling creativity and sustainable innovation. Beyond profits, they recognise the broader impact of their organisations, adopting a values-driven, long-term perspective that integrates environmental, social, and governance considerations. Future-Fit Leadership – A Guidebook for Today’s Dynamic, Digital Environment is a valuable resource for business leaders, HR professionals, and educators. It provides practical techniques, real-world examples, and guidance to boost organisational performance and cultivate future-fit leadership for transformative success. The book comprises insightful interviews from leaders at Siemens, HP, Daiichi-Sankyo, and Twente University.

Old age is a time of losses- permanent, cumulative and irreversible. These losses include our loss of work in retirement, the eclipse of our past, our biological decline, dependency resulting from such decline, the foreshortening of our future, the abandonment of belief in our own improvement and our society’s progress, and, of course, our death. This book views these losses as part of an elegy of old age. Elegy is a poetic or prose mourning of loss. Sadness and other emotions result. With elegiac understanding we detach ourselves from these losses to seek and find consolation. This book is concerned with achieving intellectual detachment through meditative reflection with the help of reading and appreciating the classics. The final stage of the old age elegy- consolation can be found, at least in part, within the classics-“the garlands of repose”. The classics are broadly defined by Matthew Arnold as: “the best that [has} been thought and said: { or found in the fine arts}. To benefit from the classis requires a life-long liberal education. This education begins with an introduction to the classics in youth, makes use of them during our adult lives, and supplies their conclusion for old age meditation. Such significant works enable us to place the losses we suffer within an intellectual framework of perennial ideas. It is by means of such an intellectual framework that we secure consolation in old age. Classic works familiarize us deeply with the losses and emotions we endure-suggest substitutes for the goods of the life we have lost in old age, offer opportunities of catharsis for the sadness we experience and help us transform ourselves in old age. Classics help us see old age and its losses as part of a complete life which hold a unique value of its own, while remaining part of larger nature processes, history and intellectual traditions.

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This book offers a clear process for managers, professionals, and future leaders to help discover their personal meaning in life and apply it to their work. The author uses research outcomes and theories to refute the contemporary philosophy that stresses following an individual’s passion alone when choosing a particular job or career. Instead, she recommends employing a personal meaning-oriented approach to life and work, and then becoming passionate about one’s work organically. The book also highlights the positive outcomes to organizations and societies when individuals engage with finding meaning in work, focusing on physical and emotional health and satisfaction. The author provides numerous examples of leaders who have aligned their personal meaning and organizational mission, also known as “meaning-mission fit,” and the relationship of this alignment to their emotional well-being. Together, the research, theory, and evidence in this book equip leaders and managers with an inspiring model to find their own meaning-mission fit, as well as create opportunities for the employees to do the same.

Hailed by one reviewer as "the bible of the integration movement," the inaugural edition of Handbook of Psychotherapy Integration was the first compilation of the early integrative approaches to therapy. Since its publication psychotherapy integration has grown into a mature, empirically supported, and international movement, and the current edition provides a comprehensive review of what has been done. Reflecting the considerable advances in the field since the previous edition's release in 2005, this third edition of Handbook of Psychotherapy Integration continues to be the state-of-the-art description of psychotherapy integration and its clinical practices by some of its most distinguished proponents. Six chapters new to this edition describe growing areas of psychotherapy research and practice: common factors therapy, principle-based integration, integrative psychotherapy with children, mixing psychotherapy and self-help, integrating research and practice, and international themes. The latter two of these constitute contemporary thrusts in the integration movement: blending research and practice, and recognizing its international nature. Also closely examined are the concepts, history, training, research, global themes, and future of psychotherapy integration. Each chapter includes a new section on cultural considerations, and an emphasis is placed throughout the volume on outcome research. Charting the remarkable evolution of psychotherapy integration itself, the third edition of this Handbook will continue to prove invaluable to practitioners, researchers, and students alike.