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Experience the power of inclusion, community, and taking action! An updated, expanded edition.

By 2045 Latinos will make up 1 in 4 Americans. They are projected to be 78% of the new entries into the labor force in the next ten years. By sheer numbers alone, Latinos will shape the 21st Century. What does it take to lead such a varied and vibrant people who hail from twenty-six countries and are a blend of different races? And what can leaders of all cultures and ethnicities learn from how Latinos lead?

Juana Bordas takes us on a journey to the very heart and soul of Latino leadership. She offers 10 principles that richly illustrate the inclusive, people-centered, socially responsible, and life-affirming ways Latinos have led their community. This model is uniquely suited to this century's multicultural, global age.

This new and expanded edition includes a chapter on intergenerational leadership that recognizes vast generational shifts are occurring: ten thousand Baby Boomers retire every day and Millennials and Zs are the largest generations in history. Six out of 10 Latinos are millennials. This new chapter can guide us in preparing the next generations to take the helm of leadership.

This unprecedented and wide-ranging book shows that Latino leadership is indeed powerful and distinctive and has lessons that can inform leaders of every background.

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There is no time more confusing than when we are in the midst of a world waiting to be born. Gareth Morgan's landmark book makes the case that there is some profound and productive business sense in the current chaos and shows how ideas about management, roles, responsibilities, and work itself need to change in many different ways if we are to take full advantage of the unique opportunities that evolving markets and organizations present.

Imaginization details the process of "imaginization" (imagination + organization)-a new core competence that's essential for leading and managing in a world characterized by flux and change. This process answers the call for more open, flexible, creative forms of organization and management to meet the challenges of a networked, electronic age.

Dozens of books call for new management practice, often selling just one or two pet theories or ideas. This is the first book to show how to develop the multiplicity of ideas that are going to be needed. The critical difference in Gareth Morgan's work is that it focuses on the 'how-to's:

o How to create new, more flexible forms of organization
o How managers can develop new understandings of their roles and their problems and learn to see situations in different ways
o How they can develop more flexible approaches to strategy and piece together their own creative toolbox
o How organizations can be centralized and decentralized at the same time

Using simple yet powerful graphics to illustrate and communicate his message, Morgan builds on the insights of his classic Images of Organization which pioneered the idea of using metaphor to create new insights in organization and management.

Imaginization teaches by example. Each chapter focuses on how the approach can be put into practice, providing dozens of concrete illustrations and case studies drawn from real-world organizational change projects and management development programs.

From page one, Morgan draws a complex, but coherent methodology for achieving success in today's organizations. Few management books address the range of issues raised here--creativity, strategy, empowerment, new structures, and many more. Imaginization brings them all together, demonstrating how all of these issues can be approached through the same creative process.

  • New thinking from the bestselling author of Images of Organization (over 250,000 copies sold)
  • A practical guide that shows how to put "out of the box" thinking into practice
  • Teaches managers to unleash the creative abilities of employees, develop new ways of organizing, and remain open, energized, and empowered in the face of constant change
  • Copublished with Sage Publications

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Essential reading for anyone truly interested in saving democracy from the predations of kleptocracy and plutocracy.
-Charles Davidson, The Journal of Democracy

This book expands our understanding of the financial secrecy system dominating capitalism today and shows how we can create accountability to restore our democracy.


Over the last half century, capitalism has created the means for trillions of dollars, euros, pounds, and other stores of wealth to move invisibly-beyond the control of central bankers, law enforcement agents, and international institutions. With an entire financial secrecy system now dominating capitalist operations, riches flow inexorably upward and accelerate economic inequality. And rising inequality is directly imperiling-weakening, obstructing, and degrading-democracy.

This book is not a screed against capitalism-it is a call for capitalism to return to its roots, reenergizing its synergies with democracy. Raymond Baker writes, Democratic capitalism is, in my judgment, the best system yet devised in political economy, but dysfunctions within its capitalist component are undermining the two-part system.

Baker explains the tax havens, secrecy jurisdictions, disguised corporations, anonymous trusts, fake foundations, regulatory loopholes, money laundering techniques, and more that make up the financial secrecy system. But he goes beyond the what to the why, examining the motivations driving the system that generates and shelters trillions of dollars that could go toward spreading wealth, generating public goods, and protecting the environment.

Going deeper, Baker illustrates how these realities further corrode the commonwealth, with chapters devoted to the facilitating activities and impacts of banks, corporations, enabling lawyers and accountants, governments, and international institutions and concluding with the limiting role played in policy silos that are missing the bigger picture.

Finally, he provides specific, pragmatic measures to reset capitalism so that it once again contributes to shared prosperity and sustained democracy. This is a magisterial treatment of an issue that is at the root of so many problems that plague our nation and the world today.

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