Leading in a Culture of Change Personal Action Guide and Workbook

Leading in a Culture of Change Personal Action Guide and Workbook Review

Leading in a Culture of Change: Personal Action Guide and Workbook is an essential companion to Michael Fullan's bestselling book, Leading in a Culture of Change. This practical guide is designed to help leaders in all sectors (corporate, education, public, and nonprofit) manage and drive productive change within their organizations. 

The workbook is filled with illustrative case examples, exercises, and resources that you can use with individuals or groups. It will help you (and any change agent) integrate the five core competencies—attending to a broader moral purpose, keeping on top of the change process, cultivating relationships, sharing knowledge, and setting a vision and context for creating coherence in organizations—and empower you to deal with the issues of complex change. 

Writing Community Change: Designing Technologies for Citizen Action (New Dimensions in Computers and Composition)

Writing Community Change: Designing Technologies for Citizen Action (New Dimensions in Computers and Composition) Review

This is a book about how people use advanced information technologies to write for community change. The author argues that the work of citizenship is knowledge work - on the same order as that expected of workers in business and industry. The importance of this book is in the way is understands writing and technology, and the implications of these understandings for how we need to teach and learn with students.

Real Kids, Real Stories, Real Change: Courageous Actions Around the World

Real Kids, Real Stories, Real Change: Courageous Actions Around the World Review

Eleven-year-old Tilly saved lives in Thailand by warning people that a tsunami was coming. Fifteen-year-old Malika fought against segregation in her Alabama town. Ten-year-old Jean-Dominic won a battle against pesticides—and the cancer they caused in his body. Six-year-old Ryan raised 0,000 to drill water wells in Africa. And twelve-year-old Haruka invented a new environmentally friendly way to scoop dog poop. With the right role models, any child can be a hero. Thirty true stories profile kids who used their heads, their hearts, their courage, and sometimes their stubbornness to help others and do extraordinary things. As young readers meet these boys and girls from around the world, they may wonder, “What kind of hero lives inside of me?”

Organizational Change: An Action-Oriented Toolkit

Organizational Change: An Action-Oriented Toolkit Review

With the growing influence of the external environment on internal operations, organizations need to be able to adapt and change. Managers at all levels must diagnose organizational issues, develop a compelling vision, engage others in this collective journey, and bring change to fruition. This book helps leaders, managers, and students do just that.

Citizen Action and National Policy Reform: Making Change Happen (Claiming Citizenship: Rights, Participation, Accountability)

Citizen Action and National Policy Reform: Making Change Happen (Claiming Citizenship: Rights, Participation, Accountability) Review

How does citizen activism win changes in national policy? Which factors help to make myriad efforts by diverse actors add up to reform? What is needed to overcome setbacks, and to consolidate the smaller victories?

 

These questions need answers. Aid agencies have invested heavily in supporting civil society organizations as change agents in fledgling and established democracies alike. Evidence gathered by donors, NGOs and academics demonstrates how advocacy and campaigning can reconfigure power relations and transform governance structures at the local and global levels. In the rush to go global or stay local, however, the national policy sphere was recently neglected. Today, there is growing recognition of the key role of champions of change inside national governments, and the potential of their engagement with citizen activists outside. These advances demand a better understanding of how national and local actors can combine approaches to simultaneously work the levers of change, and how their successes relate to actors and institutions at the international level. 

 

This book brings together eight studies of successful cases of citizen activism for national policy changes in South Africa, Morocco, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Turkey, India and the Philippines. They detail the dynamics and strategies that have led to the introduction, change or effective implementation of policies responding to a range of rights deficits. Drawing on influential social science theory about how political and social change occurs, the book brings new empirical insights to bear on it, both challenging and enriching current understandings.