Relational Wealth

The underlying theme of this book is that organisations possess a kind of wealth that is not quantified on the balance sheet, but that provides them with a powerful competitiveness.

This inspiring new approach is based on extensive research by an expert on relationships and supported by a wealth of statistics and case studies. Relationships are at the heart of all that we do and achieve, indeed our very identity. When relationships are neglected in a business context, the authors argue, they lead to poor health, ineffective management and low output at work. The authors focus on 5 key components of successful relationships and how these can be achieved: Encounter (personal rather than impersonal contact is best); Storyline (strength of the relationship over time); Knowledge (how deeply is information shared?); Fairness (equal treatment and mutual respect); Alignment (sharing values, objectives and purpose).

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Organizations are the dominant social invention for generating resources and distributing them. Relational Inequalities develops a general sociological and organizational analysis of inequality, exploring the processes that generate inequalities in access to respect, resources, and rewards. Framing their analysis through a relational account of social and economic life, Donald Tomaskovic-Devey and Dustin Avent-Holt explain how resources are generated and distributed both within and between organizations. They show that inequalities are produced through generic processes that occur in all social relationships: categorization and their resulting status hierarchies, organizational resource pooling, exploitation, social closure, and claims-making. Drawing on a wide range of case studies, Tomaskovic-Devey and Avent-Holt focus on the workplace as the primary organization for generating inequality and provide a series of global goals to advance both a comparative organizational research model and to challenge troubling inequalities.

"As the Founder of Extreme Leadership, I can happily say that this is an EXTREMELY valuable text for anyone seeking wealth across multiple domains!" STEVE FARBER, Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author of Greater Than Yourself and Radical Leap Re-Energized "This book will touch your heart in one moment and have it thumping in anticipation the next, as you move towards achieving your loftiest goals in life." TY TRIBBLE Author and Internet Entrepreneur and founder of mlmblog.net-www.TyTribble.com "Wealth Matters is doing more for the economy than our own Government! With this guide you will get and stay financially independent just when you need it most! RICHARD LAERMER, CEO, RLM PR and bestselling Author of 2011: Trendspotting, Full Frontal PR, and Punk Marketing "Wealth Matters is a must read!" BOB PROCTOR, Author of best-selling book, You Were Born Rich "The landscape of consumer values has shifted and opened up immense opportunity for those ready to capitalize. This book will help you!" ANDY HINES, Author of ConsumerShift, Thinking About the Future and 2025. Executive-in-Residence at University of Houston Graduate School of Futures Studies "While sales provide financial depth to an organization, books provide depth to the leaders of the organization. Wealth Matters Makeover Edition will provide you with the opportunity to lead your organization to new heights. Read it and win." BO SHORT , Chairman, The Pinnacle Group

Become a Great Leader by Investing in Others The strongest leaders are set apart by their relationships with their colleagues, their families, and the members of their community. They form bonds built on respect and mutual appreciation, and in doing so, they bring out the best in themselves and in others. Improving as a relational leader is as easy as adding a few new tools to your belt while sharpening skills you already have. Bestselling author and ministry coach Boyd Bailey identifies 30 habits that will help you promote a culture of trust, love, and service wherever you lead. Grow in your ability to… cultivate God's heart toward people, recognizing their unique value as individuals prioritize love above all else, even over your own interests continually strive for personal growth, especially in your capacity for grace, selflessness, and emotional maturity You'll find you are the most successful when you’re helping those around you shine. By making these habits your own, you will grow into the kind of leader people can’t wait to follow.

The Moral Compass presents a model of morality as a guide to values-based leadership. In a free, pluralist society, diverse stakeholders with competing moral claims present serious challenges to the strategic momentum of business, government, NGOs, and community organizations. Leaders need to know how to manage these challenges effectively. The Moral Compass is their guide. As recent history has repeatedly demonstrated, leaders who avoid, impose, or gloss over the centrality of values in realizing a strategic vision can produce severely flawed outcomes such as loss of confidence, corruption, and market failure. The Moral Compass provides leaders with effective tools to manage this complex, strategic environment by engaging directly with stakeholders to clarify and articulate normative values without privileging or diminishing specific moral traditions. The Moral Compass is rich blend of scholarship, practical wisdom, and usable tools. It is a readable, accessible book that draws from a range of scholarship in humanities, business, science, and social sciences to explain the dynamics of human morality. Academically oriented readers will find intellectually challenging resources and references. Pragmatic readers will be able to use this knowledge to cultivate a robust personal moral compass as a leadership tool for building ethical teams, practice groups, and organizational cultures, for framing and managing moral dilemmas, and for conducting an ethical discernment and decisionmaking process. Ethics in business and leadership studies is emerging as a rich field for scholarship. As an active business faculty member in the field, Dr Thompson is familiar with the published literature of colleagues in the Society for Business Ethics, the International Society for Business Ethics and Economics, the Academy of Management, and the American Philosophical Association. As a blend of theory and practice, The Moral Compass is unique among business ethics books in providing a framework for including and managing the volatility of ethical issues arising from tensions between traditional religious and modern secular morality. Rather than avoid these conflicts, the book anchors their source in the inherent complexity of human neurochemistry, individuation, and socialization as a context for moral meaning and conscience. The book includes numerous exercises in reflection, dialogue, and discernment that enable readers to find common moral ground with people from divergent wisdom traditions. The book synthesizes a wide range of knowledge in a presenting practical model for moral discernment, dialogue, and decision making.

Now with SAGE Publishing! Using state-of-the-art research, Anthropology: A Global Perspective introduces students to the four core subfields of anthropology and applied anthropology. Integrating material from each subfield, this comprehensive text is founded on four essential themes: the diversity of human societies; the similarities that tie all humans together; the interconnections between the sciences and humanities; and a new theme addressing psychological essentialism. Authors Raymond Scupin and Christopher R. DeCorse demonstrate how anthropologists use research techniques and methods to help solve practical problems and show students how anthropology is relevant to improving human societies. This supportive textbook is grounded in the belief that an enhanced global awareness is essential for people preparing to take their place in the fast-paced, interconnected world of the twenty-first century. The extensively revised Ninth Edition includes a new chapter on gender and sexuality, features a dramatically new look with new photos and figures, and has been updated to reflect the most recent findings in the field. This title is accompanied by a complete teaching and learning package.