Rocking the Boat
Title | Rocking the Boat PDF eBook |
Author | Debra E. Meyerson |
Publisher | Harvard Business Review Press |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2008-03-01 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1633691128 |
Most people feel at odds with their organizations at one time or another: Managers with families struggle to balance professional and personal responsibilities in often unsympathetic firms. Members of minority groups strive to make their organizations better for others like themselves without limiting their career paths. Socially or environmentally conscious workers seek to act on their values at firms more concerned with profits than global poverty or pollution. Yet many firms leave little room for differences, and people who don't "fit in" conclude that their only option is to assimilate or leave. In Rocking the Boat, Debra E. Meyerson presents an inspiring alternative: building diverse, adaptive, family-friendly, and socially responsible workplaces not through revolution but through walking the tightrope between conformity and rebellion. Meyerson shows how these "tempered radicals" work toward transformational ends through incremental means—sticking to their values, asserting their agendas, and provoking change without jeopardizing their hard-won careers. Whether it's by resisting quietly, leveraging "small wins," or mobilizing others in legitimate but powerful ways, tempered radicals turn threats to their identities into opportunities to make a positive difference in their companies—and in the world. Timely and provocative, Rocking the Boat puts self-realization and change within everyone's reach--whether your difference stems from race, gender, sexual orientation, values, beliefs, or social perspective.
Rockin' the Boat
Title | Rockin' the Boat PDF eBook |
Author | Reebee Garofalo |
Publisher | South End Press |
Pages | 350 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9780896084278 |
"Popular music, for all its contradictions, lets us feel the pulses of grassroots social awareness...Rockin' provides excellent, detailed documentation of a wide variety of social stirrings. It's a source of hope." -Dick Flacks, UC Santa Barbara.
Noah's Rocking Boat
Title | Noah's Rocking Boat PDF eBook |
Author | Molly Detweiler |
Publisher | Thomas Nelson |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9781400301935 |
"Noah's Rocking Boat" is a die-cut board book with moving animals, bright illustrations, and whimsical verse. Full color.
Rockin' the Boat
Title | Rockin' the Boat PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Uyematsu Kao |
Publisher | |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2020-04 |
Genre | Asian Americans |
ISBN | 9780934052559 |
Literary Nonfiction. Photography. Asian & Asian American Studies. ROCKIN' THE BOAT is a photographic journey into the Asian American Movement from 1969 to 1974 by photojournalist Mary Uyematsu Kao. Never-before seen photographs help tell the story of the beginnings of Asian America. From immigrant demonstrations in Chinatown to Japanese American protests against Japanese imperialism in partnership with U.S. imperialism to visiting the Movement in Denver, Chicago, and New York City--ROCKIN' THE BOAT is a reminder that today's struggles are rooted in the history of U.S. imperialism.
Popular Music and Society
Title | Popular Music and Society PDF eBook |
Author | Brian Longhurst |
Publisher | Polity |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 2007-05-07 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0745631622 |
This new edition of Popular Music and Society, fully revised and updated, continues to pioneer an approach to the study of popular music that is informed by wider debates in sociology and media and cultural studies. Astute and accessible, it continues to set the agenda for research and teaching in this area. The textbook begins by examining the ways in which popular music is produced, before moving on to explore its structure as text and the ways in which audiences understand and use music. Packed with examples and data on the contemporary production and consumption of popular music, the book also includes overviews and critiques of theoretical approaches to this exciting area of study and outlines the most important empirical studies which have shaped the discipline. Topics covered include: • The contemporary organisation of the music industry; • The effects of technological change on production; • The history and politics of popular music; • Gender, sexuality and ethnicity; • Subcultures; • Fans and music celebrities. For this new edition, two whole new chapters have been added: on performance and the body, and on the very latest ways of thinking about audiences and the spaces and places of music consumption. This second edition of Popular Music and Society will continue to be required reading for students of the sociology of culture, media and communication studies, and popular culture.
Shake the Maracas!
Title | Shake the Maracas! PDF eBook |
Author | Billy Davis |
Publisher | Cartwheel Books |
Pages | 12 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Boats and boating |
ISBN | 9780439192613 |
A board book with maracas as part of the cover presents words from the familiar song, "Row, Row, Row Your Boat".
Tempered Radicals
Title | Tempered Radicals PDF eBook |
Author | Debra Meyerson |
Publisher | Harvard Business School Press |
Pages | 221 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9781591393252 |
This text explores the experiences of tempered radicals. These are people who want to become valued and successful members of their organisations without selling out on who they are and what they believe in.