Project Management for Families: Professional Strategies for Everyday Life is an insightful guide designed to help families manage their everyday projects with clarity and efficiency. Whether you're organizing a family vacation, overseeing a home renovation, or coordinating a significant event, this book provides practical strategies to make the process smooth and manageable. Authored by Mohammad Zaripour, an expert with extensive experience in project management and engineering, this book simplifies complex project management concepts into easy-to-follow steps. It covers essential aspects such as defining clear project goals, creating effective schedules, managing budgets, and handling resources efficiently. The book is enriched with real-life examples, interactive exercises, and expert advice, making it easier for you to apply these strategies directly to your family projects. Each chapter offers detailed guidance, helping you to organize, plan, and execute your projects with confidence. The clear explanations and practical tools provided in this book are aimed at making your family projects more successful and less stressful. Whether you are new to project management or seeking to refine your skills, this guide offers valuable insights and actionable advice to ensure that your family projects are executed smoothly and efficiently.

"This book focuses on working mothers and their professions. The goal of this book is to provide a positive relationship to a working mother's career and help children connect the two roles: Mother and professional"--

Project Management for Parents helps families strengthen their relationships and reduce stress by applying techniques, normally used by billion-dollar companies, to streamline their busy lives. In today’s day and age, especially amidst the changes brought about by a global pandemic, parents, stepparents, guardians, and caregivers need a set of tools that can be used with children of any age to help them focus on their priorities, get organized, and boost productivity. In Project Management for Parents, Hilary Kinney provides an accessible, repeatable framework that can transform their approach to any kind of task at home in three steps: Step 1: Build Teamwork Step 2: Establish Your Approach Step 3: Succeed as a Family What’s more, these same principles help improve family relationships by creating a positive environment, fostering communication, and encouraging children to think and act independently. This practical guidebook includes easy-to-understand exercises and tools that both parents and children can use, along with 25 real-life examples like selecting a childcare provider, managing homework, discussing risky teenage behavior, applying to college, and moving to a new city. Hilary shows parents how to apply proven project management concepts to family life, equipping families to successfully achieve their goals—together.

"If you are like me, you need a genealogy makeover. Better yet, a Genealogy Do-Over. Since I started my initial research, much has changed in the areas of genealogy research methodology and education. I now realize the need to collect facts and track them properly, including the use of source citations. I now understand the process of analyzing evidence and proving facts to reach a conclusion. In essence, I know a lot more about the "process" of genealogical research and I want to put it to use. The Genealogy Do-Over journey is constructed of 12 mileposts or journey markers that are laid out over one year. You can choose to pace yourself differently. You can even decide to drop some of the less important tasks and add your own. Do whatever it takes to ensure that you are on a firm footing to finding your ancestors"--Back cover.

Family-owned businesses account for many of the small and medium-sized enterprises that exist around the world in various industries. Due to their unique make up, these firms are often heavily influenced by family dynamics that must be reconciled by family and non-family workers alike in order to ensure the sustainability of the business. As smaller businesses competing against an increasingly globalized economy and more directly impacted by economic instability, especially in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, these businesses must continue to improve their practices and processes in order to not only survive but thrive. The Research Anthology on Strategies for Maintaining Successful Family Firms discusses the strategies, sustainability, and human aspects of family firms in order to understand what sets them apart from other businesses and how they can survive and compete in a globalized economy. This book discusses the unique dynamic brought by family firms that offers both opportunities and challenges for a growing business. Covering topics such as corporate venturing, the family unit, and business ethics, this text is an essential resource for family firms, entrepreneurs, managers, business students, business professors, researchers, and academicians.

Now in its third edition, this classic text remains the seminal resource for in-depth information about major concepts and principles of the cultural-historical theory developed by Lev Vygotsky, his students, and colleagues, as well as three generations of neo-Vygotskian scholars in Russia and the West. Featuring two new chapters on brain development and scaffolding in the zone of proximal development, as well as additional content on technology, dual language learners, and students with disabilities, this new edition provides the latest research evidence supporting the basics of the cultural-historical approach alongside Vygotskian-based practical implications. With concrete explanations and strategies on how to scaffold young children’s learning and development, this book is essential reading for students of early childhood theory and development.