The Color of Success

The Color of Success
Author: Gilberto Q. Conchas
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2006-01-21
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780807746608

Through students' own voices and perspectives, this book reveals how and why some racial minorities achieve academic success, despite limited opportunity. Based on the experiences of Black, Latino, and Vietnamese urban high school students, the author provides a revealing comparative analysis that offers insight into how schools can provide opportunities and safe learning environments where youth acquire real goals, expectations, and tangible pathways for success. Offering alternatives to current practices and structures of inequality that plague educational systems throughout the nation, this sociologically informed book: takes a rare look at urban school success stories, instead of those depicting failure; explores the social processes that enable racial minority youth to escape the unequal structures of urban schooling to perform well in school; and focuses on youth's interpretations and reactions to the schooling process to determine how schools can empower youth and promote the social mobility of low-income urban populations.

The Success Secret

The Success Secret
Author: Jack Canfield
Publisher:
Total Pages: 528
Release: 2012-05-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780985364373

"The world's leading experts reveal their secrets for success in business and in life." -- Cover

Learning from Bryant Park

Learning from Bryant Park
Author: Andrew M. Manshel
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2020-04-17
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1978802439

Andrew M. Manshel helped transform New York's Bryant Park from a blighted eyesore to a vibrant destination, then applied its strategies to an equally successful renewal project in a very different neighborhood: Jamaica, Queens. Here, he candidly describes what does (and doesn't) work when coordinating urban redevelopment projects.

Revitalizing America's Smaller Legacy Cities

Revitalizing America's Smaller Legacy Cities
Author: Torey Hollingsworth
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Cities and towns
ISBN: 9781558443709

This report examines the unique challenges of smaller American legacy cities -- older industrial centers with populations of less than 200,000, located primarily in the Midwest and Northeast. These cities are critical sites for a number of global economic and demographic transformations, and must fundamentally reconsider how to rebuild and sustain strong economies, housing markets, and workforces. This report identifies replicable strategies that have assisted smaller legacy cities weather these transformations, find their competitive edge, and transform into thriving, sustainable communities.

The Measure of Success

The Measure of Success
Author: Carolyn McCulley
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2014
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1433679922

Carolyn and Nora-a single business owner and a stay at home mom-tackle the stereotypes and one-size-fits-all thinking that have left women struggling to understand how to balance roles in the home and work place for generations.

Paths to Success

Paths to Success
Author: Charles C. Harrington
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2000-10-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780674004139

Statisticians tell us that impoverished backgrounds are decent predictors of impoverished futures. This book seeks out the stories behind the exceptions. While the authors reveal consistencies between pathmakers' approaches and those of their middle-class counterparts, it also exposes striking differences between men and women, blacks and whites.

Biophilic Cities for an Urban Century

Biophilic Cities for an Urban Century
Author: Robert McDonald
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2020-09-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3030516652

​This book argues that, paradoxically, at their moment of triumph and fastest growth, cities need nature more than ever. Only if our urban world is full of biophilic cities will the coming urban century truly succeed. Cities are quintessentially human, the perfect forum for interaction, and we are entering what could justly be called the urban century, the fastest period of urban growth in human history. Yet a growing body of scientific literature shows that the constant interaction, the hyper-connectedness, of cities leads to an urban psychological penalty. Nature in cities can be solution to this dilemma, allowing us to have all the benefits of our urban, connected world yet also have that urban home be a place where humanity can thrive. This book presents best practices and case studies from biophilic design, showing how cities around the world are beginning to incorporate nature into their urban fabric. It will be a valuable resource for scholars and professionals working in the area of sustainable cities.

Achieving True Success

Achieving True Success
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2000
Genre: Character
ISBN: 9780967994109

This book is designed to help your family develop character qualities that bring success in all ares of life. Forty-nine key character qualities are defined, applied, and illustrated, so your family can develope character together.

Scaling for Success

Scaling for Success
Author: T. Brad Harris
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2021-07-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0231550839

Managing a high-growth organization requires both strategy and adaptability. Unfortunately, start-up founders and executives seeking to scale up to the next level find all too frequently that growth turns into chaos. Rather than laying the groundwork for the future, organizations get stuck by covering up complex problems with unsustainable band-aids and duct-tape fixes, implementing anecdote-based solutions from the latest tech-industry unicorns or leadership books, and relying on too much on-the-fly learning from inexperienced managers. This book is the definitive guide for leaders of high-growth organizations seeking to understand and execute the people-management principles that are essential to continued success. Combining a wealth of practical experience, well-grounded academic research, and easy-to-apply frameworks, Andrew Bartlow and T. Brad Harris offer a practical toolkit that founders, functional leaders, and managers of people can use to rethink their practices to meet their organizations’ needs. They help readers identify the core people-management programs and practices that are best for an organization at its current stage and size while also supporting a foundation for continued development and the capacity to adapt to inevitable surprises. Practical, actionable, and supplemented with numerous diagnostic tools and illustrative examples, Scaling for Success is a must-have playbook for organizational leaders pursuing smart and sustainable growth.

Cities for Life

Cities for Life
Author: Jason Corburn
Publisher: Island Press
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2021-11-16
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1642831727

In cities around the world, planning and health experts are beginning to understand the role of social and environmental conditions that lead to trauma. By respecting the lived experience of those who were most impacted by harms, some cities have developed innovative solutions for urban trauma. In Cities for Life, public health expert Jason Corburn shares lessons from three of these cities: Richmond, California; Medellín, Colombia; and Nairobi, Kenya. Corburn draws from his work with citizens, activists, and decision-makers in these cities over a ten-year period, as individuals and communities worked to heal from trauma--including from gun violence, housing and food insecurity, poverty, and other harms. Cities for Life is about a new way forward with urban communities that rebuilds our social institutions, practices, and policies to be more focused on healing and health.