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Low-wage workers make up the largest group of employed parents in the United States, yet scant attention has been given to their experiences as new mothers and fathers. Work Matters brings the unique stories of these diverse individuals to light. Drawing on years of research and more than fifteen hundred family interviews, Maureen Perry-Jenkins describes how new parents cope with the demands of infant care while holding down low-wage, full-time jobs, and she considers how managing all of these responsibilities have long-term implications for child development.

Work Matters is a quick, daily dose of what’s going on in the job market and how it affects you and your career journey. The show is hosted by America’s Career Coach, Ken Coleman—#1 bestselling author and host of Ramsey Network’s The Ken Coleman Show—and provides a practical take on topics like burnout, today’s most in-demand job skills, how to deal with a deadbeat boss, and more. The work you do matters, and it’s time to make the most of it. For a full-length daily podcast, subscribe to The Ken Coleman Show.

Imagine what you could do with the time you spend writing emails every day. Complexity is killing companies' ability to innovate and adapt, and simplicity is fast becoming the competitive advantage of our time. Why Simple Wins helps leaders and their teams move beyond the feelings of frustration and futility that come with so much unproductive work in today's corporate world to create a corporate culture where valuable, essential, meaningful work is the norm.

Taught with intelligence, humor, and many true accounts of those who found meaningful livelihood, Finding Work that Matters is required listening for anyone ready to leave behind a job - and discover the fulfillment of making a difference in the world.

Encore tells the stories of encore career pioneers who are not content, or affluent enough, to spend their next 30 years on a golf course. These men and women are moving beyond midlife careers yet refusing to phase out or fade away. As they search for a calling in the second half of life and focus on what matters most, these individuals stand to transform the nature of work in America.

In Mastering the Art of Quitting, the authors show us how to let go when we need to and how to start over. A guide to increasing our emotional and mental flexibility, assessing our goals, and knowing when to hang in or bail out, it tackles our tendencies to overanalyze, ruminate, and put a positive spin on situations we actually need to avoid. In a culture which perceives quitting as a last resort, Alan Bernstein and Peg Streep show that it’s an essential tool for a happy and successful life. They reveal simple truths which apply to goals in all areas of life including love, relationships, and work.

Everyone Matters è il podcast casual sulla Diversity, Equity & Inclusion di Work Wide Women, a cura di Linda Serra.Dal 2014 sviluppiamo progetti di Change Management e forniamo supporto strategico nel campo della Diversity, Equity & Inclusion. Siamo una digital company e affianchiamo le aziende nell'implementazione e nella gestione di processi ad alto potenziale di inclusività grazie al lavoro sulle tematiche di genere, interculturalità, generations, aging, orientamento affettivo, disabilità visibili ed invisibili, e più in generale includendo le diversità tra le persone. Amiamo ...

Why does a CEO who has already made hundreds of millions of dollars continue to work? Why does a rock star who has made a bundle continue to tour? Why do retirees' miss work as soon as they stop doing it? Why do we all wrestle with our life's work and talk about it incessantly? The thing about work is that we love it, we hate it, we need it, we miss it, we measure ourselves by it, we judge others by it - we are addicted to it. Work often defines us and fulfills us.