How and to what degree are women worldwide gaining and using power? This book offers the first genuinely comparative assessment of this key question by exploring the conditions, actions, and accomplishments of women in Latin America and Asia. Encompassing 60 percent of the world's population and experiencing far-reaching transformations, these two regions offer a vital window into our understanding of the experiences of women globally. Revealing both basic similarities and fundamental differences, this volume offers thoughtful insights about the changing conditions of women, on the one hand, and, on the other, about patterns of social change throughout Asia and Latin America.

No one has ever faced a healthcare crisis as dire as the one that confronted Florence Nightingale at the Scutari Barrack Hospital, yet despite the challenges over a 2-year period she defined the nursing profession and created a blueprint for the hospital as we know it today. Now she returns to Memorial Medical Center to help the leadership team foster a stronger culture of ownership. In this heart-warming and thought-provoking story you will learn: proven strategies to foster a culture of ownership; Why a culture of ownership requires people who are emotionally positive, self empowered, and fully engaged; How to use a construction metaphor to create a blueprint for your organization's ownership architecture; The 8 essential characteristics of a culture of ownership; How to use the pickle pledge to help people confront toxic emotional negativity and promote a more positive and productive workplace attitude; and how the 7 promises of self-empowerment can help foster a more empowering culture. -- From publisher description

The WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT HOUR Offers Christian leaders a practical, interactive and scripturally based program designed to help exhort the gifts of power and love within women. God's daughters are equipped to bring life to a shattered world However, we are so often overwhelmed by the pain of our past, responsibilities of the present and fears of our future that we never reach God's complete purpose for our existence. This Program establishes a forum to address most of the issues and concerns impacting a woman's personal and professional life. Through interactive sharing and the use of current resources, positive options and resolutions are uncovered. Participants experience a self actualizing energy which enables them to obtain desired changes. A major success of this program is the long term establishment of a network of relationships, knowledge and resources that support and strengthen the women who have participated. Their families' communities and churches greatly benefit from the reclaimed power within these mothers, daughters, sisters, wives and leaders. Brenda Joyce Dawson, a forty year merited educator, public servant and lay minister is recognized as an "unsung heroine". Her directed path has brought comfort and hope to many, especially those who are often overlooked or disenfranchised. For the past seven years as founder and president of I AM Ministries of Miami-Dade/Broward; she has directed services and programs to emphasize and reclaim the value of the family unit. Her passion is expressed through her many accomplishments involving women and teenage girls. This native of Miami, Florida has been married to her high school sweetheart for forty-five years and is the mother of two adult children and grandmother of four. She is a compassionate lady who believes "everyone who finds the power of love within will always leave what they found better than it was before."

"THE MOST UNLIKELY OF PEOPLE, IN THE MOST IMPROBABLE OF CIRCUMSTANCES, CAN BECOME EXTRAORDINARY." WE NEED MORE LEADERS. From socio-political chaos and workplace disruption to the climate change crisis, we have never needed people with the skill and will to collaborate to create a better world more than now. We need people who are willing to fill the leadership void. People who will embrace the influence they have. People who believe in improving society and workplace culture - not only because it makes life better, but because it is proven to yield positive results. The Promises of Giants is a challenge to anyone who aspires to make a difference in their environment. Over fourteen promises, it seamlessly intertwines personal anecdotes and workplace and social observation with the latest research, to provide practical, proven tips and strategies to empower you to maximize your own potential and inspire others. It is not a self-help book. It is a how-to guide for winning, rooted in the belief that the most unlikely of people, in the most improbable of circumstances, can become extraordinary. John Amaechi well understands the responsibilities and potential that come with being a giant. The Promises of Giants is the product of a lifetime spent observing and studying effective leadership - from accompanying his mother's visits to her dying patients to competing at the highest levels of professional sport, through two decades of management consulting with multinational corporations. These experiences have shown that everyone has the ability to act decisively to influence the world in a positive way. Everyone is a giant to someone.

“This book will have a significant impact on a lot of people.” Dr. James L. Snyder Author of the best-selling book In Pursuit of God: The Life of A.W. Tozer Throughout the Bible, there are many references to the Christian life being compared to a ship. Whether we are floating along on calm seas or drowning in the waves of life, we are all in need of a sure Anchor for our souls. In The Anchored Life: Nautical Principles that Help Believers Grow, Marv Nelson and Tim Hibsman use nautical terms and analogies to show that the Bible is full of promises for the sea of life on which we are all sailing. Whether you're an experienced sailor or a landlubber, the lessons learned in this book will enliven you and give you hope for those times that you need to batten down the hatches and hold on to the One Who calms the storms.

Responding to the increasing interest in the movement of policies between places, sites, and settings, this timely book presents an alternative to critical approaches that center on ideas of policy transfer, dissemination, or learning. With profound implications for policy studies, contributors instead treat policy's movement as an active process of translation, in which policies are interpreted, inflected, and reworked as they change location. Mixing collectively written chapters with individual case studies of policies and practices, this book provides an exciting, accessible, and novel analytical and methodological foundation for rethinking policy studies through translation.