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Any of These 3 Monday Morning Micro-Challenges ...

Want to have a highly productive week and accomplish all or most of what you set out to do? Then start Monday morning with any of three quick micro-challenges that will set you up to reach your goals. Or, if you want, you can do them all--which will take ten minutes or less…

Any of These 3 Monday Morning Micro-Challenges Will Make You Highly Productive All Week... BY: Minda Zetlin
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What It’s Like to Experience Sexism as a Donor ...

A few years ago, a young colleague invited me to a party to meet his boss, executive director of a global nonprofit and a former scion of Wall Street. Some cursory research beforehand revealed that we had a mutual acquaintance who served on a board with the nonprofit leader. When introduced, I brought up the connection, but he displayed no interest. Instead he talked about his volunteer work and tossed around household names like confetti. As he spoke, he scanned the room without so much as a sideways word of inquiry…

What It’s Like to Experience Sexism as a Donor By: Isa Catto
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$68 trillion is about to change hands in the US

The biggest wealth transfer in history is about to happen — and it's now expected to be more than double what many thought it was. It's estimated that 45 million U.S. households will transfer $68 trillion in wealth over the next 25 years, according to Asher Cheses, a research analyst and lead author of a new report from financial services research firm Cerulli Associates…

$68 trillion is about to change hands in the US

Social Justice

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The gay glass ceiling’: Researchers find gay men are frozen out of top management spots By Andrew Van Dam

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The gay glass ceiling’: Researchers find gay men are frozen out of top management spots By Andrew Van Dam

The good news for gay men? A new analysis of U.K. data shows they are more likely to be supervisors and managers than their straight counterparts.

The bad news? Gay men are far more likely (7.9 percentage points, to be exact) to be stuck in low-level management jobs at the bottom of the organization chart or at smaller, less prestigious organizations — the shift manager at a retail store, for example. They’re significantly less likely (2.2 percentage points) than straight men to be high-level managers — the people who run trading floors and manage entire regions…

AI is hurting people of color and the poor. Experts want to fix that BY Heather Kelly

AI is hurting people of color and the poor. Experts want to fix that BY Heather Kelly

New technology brings great promise, and as many problems. Smartphones put access to infinite knowledge in our pockets, but led to the rise of tech addiction. The social media platforms that connected billions of people were turned against democracy.

And so it is with artificial intelligence, which could fundamentally change the world while contributing to greater racial bias and exclusion…

Wealth Secrets of the One Percent: A Modern Manual to Getting Marvelously, Obscenely Rich By Sam Wilkin

Wealth Secrets of the One Percent: A Modern Manual to Getting Marvelously, Obscenely Rich By Sam Wilkin

Discover how the superwealthy made it to the top (and you can too!)

From the richest Romans to the robber barons to today's bankers and tech billionaires, Sam Wilkin offers Freakonomics-esque insights into what it really takes to make a fortune. These stories of larger-than-life characters, strategies, and sacrifices reveal how the wealthiest did it, usually by a passion for finding loopholes, working around bureaucratic systems, and creating obstacles to competitors…

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The New Human Rights Movement: Reinventing the Economy to End Oppression By Peter Joseph

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The New Human Rights Movement: Reinventing the Economy to End Oppression By Peter Joseph

Society is broken. We can design our way to a better one.

In our interconnected world, self-interest and social-interest are rapidly becoming indistinguishable. If current negative trajectories remain, including growing climate destabilization, biodiversity loss, and economic inequality, an impending future of ecological collapse and societal…

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The Rise and Fall of Nations: Forces of Change in the Post-Crisis World By Ruchir Sharma

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The Rise and Fall of Nations: Forces of Change in the Post-Crisis World By Ruchir Sharma

Shaped by his twenty-five years traveling the world, and enlivened by encounters with villagers from Rio to Beijing, tycoons, and presidents, Ruchir Sharma’s The Rise and Fall of Nations rethinks the "dismal science" of economics as a practical art. Narrowing the thousands of factors that can shape a country’s fortunes to ten clear rules, Sharma explains how to spot…

Copy of A National Imperative: Joining Forces to Strengthen Human Services in America By George Morris and Dylan Roberts of Oliver Wyman

Copy of A National Imperative: Joining Forces to Strengthen Human Services in America By George Morris and Dylan Roberts of Oliver Wyman

This groundbreaking report focuses on human services community-based organizations, their economic and social impact, and the need to preserve and strengthen their critical role in building foundational supports that contribute to the health and well-being of individuals, families and communities…

The Givers: Wealth, Power, and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age Hardcover By David Callahan

The Givers: Wealth, Power, and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age Hardcover By David Callahan

Favorite Book Club of the Year (so far)

While media attention focuses on famous philanthropists such as Bill Gates and Charles Koch, thousands of donors are at work below the radar promoting a wide range of causes. David Callahan charts the rise of these new power players and the ways they are converting the fortunes of a second Gilded Age into influence. He shows how this elite works behind the scenes on education, the environment, science, LGBT rights, and many other issues…

Brazillionaires: Wealth, Power, Decadence, and Hope in an American Country Hardcover By Alex Cuadros

Brazillionaires: Wealth, Power, Decadence, and Hope in an American Country Hardcover By Alex Cuadros

When Bloomberg News invited the young American journalist Alex Cuadros to report on Brazil’s emerging class of billionaires at the height of the historic Brazilian boom, he was poised to cover two of the biggest business stories of our time: how the giants of the developing world were triumphantly taking their place at the center of global capitalism, and how wealth inequality was changing societies everywhere. The billionaires of Brazil and their massive fortunes resided at the very top of their country’s…

How the future of nonprofits may rest in corporate hands By Tom Barry

How the future of nonprofits may rest in corporate hands By Tom Barry

For many, the end of year tax incentive allows us to embrace our benevolent spirit. In recent years, and as nonprofit government funding continues to decrease, the third sector has looked to this generosity to bridge the growing financial gap.

Today, the recently passed Tax Cuts and Job Act is promising to change the supplemental landscape of individual giving – a shift that could put the entire system of fundraising in jeopardy…

Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business Hardcover By Rana Foroohar

Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business Hardcover By Rana Foroohar

In looking at the forces that brought our current administration to power one thing is clear: much of the population believes that our economic system is rigged to enrich the privileged elites at the expense of hard-working Americans. This is a belief held equally on both sides of political spectrum, and it seems only to be gaining momentum.

Everybody Matters: The Extraordinary Power of Caring for Your People Like Family By Bob Chapman & Raj Sisodia

Everybody Matters: The Extraordinary Power of Caring for Your People Like Family By Bob Chapman & Raj Sisodia

Starting in 1997, Bob Chapman and Barry-Wehmiller have pioneered a dramatically different approach to leadership that creates off-the-charts morale, loyalty, creativity, and business performance. The company utterly rejects the idea that employees are…

The Glass Closet: Why Coming Out Is Good Business By John Browne

The Glass Closet: Why Coming Out Is Good Business By John Browne

Drawing on his own experiences, and those of prominent members of the LGBT community around the world, as well as insights from well-known business leaders and celebrities, Lord Browne illustrates why, despite the risks involved, self-disclosure is best for employees—and for the businesses that support them. Above all, The Glass Closet offers…

The future of work is the low-wage health care job. The poor taking care of the poor are driving the new economy. By Soo Oh

The future of work is the low-wage health care job. The poor taking care of the poor are driving the new economy. By Soo Oh

In 2010, Tony Rowe was at a dead-end job pumping gas at a station in Oregon. The former mechanic had once worked on tanks and freight liners in the Army and diesel trucks in civilian life, but he had trouble returning to work in a battered economy after undergoing treatment for alcoholism through the VA…

Gay men and lesbian women less likely to be employed in a leadership position due to the sound of their voice By Natasha Meredith

Gay men and lesbian women less likely to be employed in a leadership position due to the sound of their voice By Natasha Meredith

Gay men and lesbian women face discrimination when seeking leadership positions due to the sound of their voice, a new study in the Archives of Sexual Behaviour has found. 

The study, carried out by researchers at the University of Surrey, also found that people thought gay men should be paid less than their heterosexual counterparts…

Why Accenture is saying goodbye to annual performance reviews By Pierre Nanterme

Why Accenture is saying goodbye to annual performance reviews By Pierre Nanterme

Of all the things that may keep a CEO up at night—including me—attracting and retaining the best people is high on the list. In an age where millennial’s dominate the workforce and digital has transformed the workplace, the old ways of employee engagement simply don’t cut it…

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Women are dying from backstreet abortions. But reforms to Malawi's 157-year-old laws are stuck By Lameck Masina

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Women are dying from backstreet abortions. But reforms to Malawi's 157-year-old laws are stuck By Lameck Masina

Blantyre, Malawi — David Minyatso holds the voter registration card of his late wife, Selina.

The last time he saw her, she had just found out she was pregnant with their fourth child.

"She told me she was feeling symptoms of pregnancy. She left for her home village two days later to visit her parents," 36-year-old Minyatso said, standing in the doorway of their thatched-roof home in Kaseleka village, his daughters playing in the dirt yard outside.

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Black Lives Matter is not a terrorist organisation By A.L.

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Black Lives Matter is not a terrorist organisation By A.L.

n 2012 George Zimmerman, a neighbourhood-watch volunteer, shot and killed Trayvon Martin, an unarmed 17-year-old boy in Sanford, Florida. His acquittal a year later led Alicia Garza, an activist, to post on Facebook: “Black people. I love you. I love us. Our lives matter, Black Lives Matter.” Soon after, those last three words went viral, after several high-profile killings of African Americans at the hands of police. Black Lives Matter developed into a movement against police violence and racism, with more than 40 chapters in four countries.

Almost as soon as it began, Black Lives Matter met with a backlash. Protest slogans, such as All Lives…

Grow Your Value: Living and Working to Your Full Potential By Mika Brzezinski

Grow Your Value: Living and Working to Your Full Potential By Mika Brzezinski

A woman who wants to be successful must make sacrifices, but how can she determine which ones she'll be happy with five, ten, twenty years from now?

Mika Brzezinski, Morning Joe co-host and New York Times best-selling author of Knowing Your Value,has built a career on inspiring women to assess and then obtain their true value in the workplace. In her books and in her conferences, Mika gives women the tools necessary to advocate for themselves and their financial futures. But that is only the first step; once you know your value, you need to grow it—both professionally and personally…

Study: Women may earn more than $1 million less than men over the course of a career By Courtney Connley

Study: Women may earn more than $1 million less than men over the course of a career By Courtney Connley

In 1971, the U.S. Congress declared August 26 as Women's Equality Day, according to the National Women's History Project. The day celebrates the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920, which granted women the right to vote. Each year, the president is requested to issue a proclamation honoring this day around the country.

While much progress has been made since the amendment was passed, women are reminded every day that there is still a lot more work to be done before equality is fully reached. A new study conducted by financial services firm Merrill Lynch and…

Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead--My Life Story Hardcover By Cecile Richards and Lauren Peterson

Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead--My Life Story Hardcover By Cecile Richards and Lauren Peterson

From Cecile Richards—president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the Planned Parenthood Action Fund for more than a decade, daughter of the late Governor Ann Richards, featured speaker at the Women’s March on Washington, and a “heroine of the resistance” (Vogue)—comes a story about learning to lead and make change, based on a lifetime of fighting for women’s rights and social justice.

Cecile Richards has been an activist since she was taken to the principal’s office in seventh grade for wearing an…