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Leading through Diversity: Transforming Managers into Effective Leaders

By Amine Ayad and Emad Rahim.
Published by The Organization

Leading through Diversity: Transforming Managers into Effective Leaders is a unique contribution to the complex subject of leadership. Dr. Ayad and Dr. Rahim build on their vast and diverse experience to translate academic concepts of leadership into a practical roadmap for students as well as managers, executives, and business leaders. This book is an overview of contemporary aspects of leadership such as change management, diversity, and servant leadership that goes beyond philosophical arguments to "applied management" and "leadership-in-action".

Dr. Ayad narrates chapters of his own succesful journey of working with leaders who were able to turnaround organizations and deliver profits and shares amazing stories, insights, and leadership success secrets. Dr. Rahim, a survivor of the Killing Fields in Cambodia, brings a unique perspective to the topic of leadership from a servitude point of view. His work as a social entrepreneur, nonprofit executive, public servant and management consultant helps to diversify the leadership conversation and brings social responsibility to the forefront. The combination of Ayad's and Rahim's professional experiences and education adds a refreshing twist to a core topic that makes you want to rethink your understanding of what makes a leader and how leadership should be developed in the new millennium.

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The Dynamics of Human Interaction: Language, Politics and Identity

By Vassil Hr. Anastassov.
Published by The Humanities

This book reveals the important role of linguistics in political theory through an interdisciplinary approach as politics cannot be understood without reference to history. In fact, the analysis would be incomplete without the reference to language, cultural, political anthropology (including various issues of identity), language philosophy, and semiotics of power. It is impossible in the contemporary world with its abundant information about issues from different perspectives to neglect comparison. For this reason, among others, it is important to examine how language and identity are dependent on the political context of the language issues and to better understand their political activities.

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Integrationalism: Essays Exploiting Spiritual Disincentives for Humanity

By James Felton Keith.
Published by Religion in Society

Integrationalism is a thought framework built on the notion that all things in existence are physiologically interconnected in the sub-atomic domain as it is understood in string theory. These collections of essays exploiting spiritual disincentives for humanity make necessary linkages between individualism and spirituality(ism). Integrationalism identifies classical individualistic understandings and virtues as the root cause of human-kind’s most daunting PEST (political, economic, sociological, and technological) problems. This text establishes that spirituality (and all of its subordinate ideologies) endorses individualism; compelling an end of separation, rendering it impossible to implement the kinds of pervasive harmonies that spiritual rhetoric holds in modernity. Through an economic analysis of decision incentives, this text explores historic philosophy on the subject of spirituality and individualism; as well as, modern social sentiment/problems/solution sets. This exploration is important in establishing an ethical model for future human (and technological) interaction, free from the ambiguities produced by individualistic philosophy.
Thought experiments and Questions related to:
The objective of spirituality
The physical of individuality
The potential of self-actualization
The degrees of individual separation
The value of commodification
The relativity of morals
The definition of Integrationalism

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Sustaining Living Culture

Frieda E. Gebert and Kevin Gibson (eds)
Published by On Sustainability

While it is indisputable that the Earth’s physical resources are being depleted, distinct cultural practices are also being eroded by forces of development and homogenization. The central question addressed in this book is how to sustain cultural practices that are still active today but are, nevertheless, vulnerable. This is a time when many unique cultures are threatened; practitioners of rare arts are aging, young people are being integrated into larger communities, languages are disappearing, and cultural memories are being lost. Sadly, once the integrity of cultural knowledge is lost, it can never be fully restored. These articles embody dynamic contemporary efforts to sustain ongoing, and therefore, ever-changing cultural practices, not merely closed histories of past events. The lessons learned in these pages can be passed on to future generations to nourish living cultures.

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