My political activism began in the stroller, writes Christine Pelosi. As the daughter of Congresswoman and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Christine is almost literally a born campaigner. She knows politics and policy inside out: shes served as an attorney in the Clinton-Gore administration, on Capitol Hill as a Congressional chief of staff, and as a San Francisco prosecutor. She has conducted boot camps in over thirty states and in three countries, working with dozens of successful candidates for office from city council to US congress. In Campaign Boot Camp 2.0, Pelosi presents leadership lessons from the campaign trail from a diverse array of over forty public figures, lending advice for anyone who wants to run for office, advocate for a cause, or win a public policy issue.
Campaign Boot Camp 2.0 is basic training for future leaders who hear a call to servicea voice of conscience that springs from vision, ideas, and valuesand want to translate that call into positive change. Pelosi offers the seven essential steps to winning: identify your call to service, define your message, know your community, build your leadership teams, raise the money, connect with people, and mobilize to win. Each chapter concludes with a Get Real exercise so readers can personalize and integrate these ideas into individual efforts.
In this edition, Pelosi updates the books Call to Service examplesprofiles of current political leaders and what motivated them to enter public service; details the expanding role of social media, the Internet, and technology as message multipliers; explores challenges unique to women candidates; and expands on the power of volunteers.
2008
• By the author of Open Space Technology (over 35,000 copies sold)
• Shows how to achieve extraordinary levels of innovation, insight, and productivity by applying the principles of Open Space Technology to day-to-day management
• Defines eight essential steps to leverage the principles of OST and includes real-world examples of these principles in action
2015
2007
• New edition of a classic, revised and updated throughout, with a new section and a new epilogue
• Explains why so many efforts at creating satisfying and productive systems end in disappointment
• Offers an approach to improving organizational life that removes the personal biases that stymie so many change efforts
2012
Looking around at the wreckage left in the wake of the world economys latest crisis, veteran business journalist Marjorie Kelly noticed that some institutions were left relatively unscathed. What did they have in common? The key, Kelly realized, is seemingly obscure: ownership. Prominent among the survivors were organizations that combined the flexibility of traditional private ownership with a focus on the common good.
As long as businesses are set up to focus exclusively on maximizing quarterly returns for a limited group of individuals, the economy will be plagued by destructive boom-bust cycles. But now people are experimenting with new forms of ownership. We are in the midst of the most creative period of economic innovation since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. Kelly calls these new forms generative: aimed at creating the conditions for life for many generations to come. They are in contrast to the dominant ownership designs of today, which can be called extractive: aimed at extracting short-term financial wealth.
To understand these emerging ownership alternatives, Kelly reports from all over the world, visiting a community-owned wind facility in Massachusetts, a lobster cooperative in Maine, a multibillion-dollar employee-owned department-store chain in London, a foundation-owned pharmaceutical in Denmark, a farmer-owned dairy in Wisconsin, and other places where an economy that works for all is being built.
This is not a moment for old solutions and tired approaches. As we enter a new era of limits, alternative ownership designs can help it become an era of fairness, sustainability, and community.