Unprecedented Times

UNPRECEDENTED TIMESHOW ARE YOU PREPARING FOR THE NEW NORMAL?Have your finances been compromised during the pandemic?Could you benefit from learning strategies to overcoming relationship issues brought on by the pandemic?Do you desire to have better health on the other side of the pandemic?Then this book is for you!! Unprecedented Times will provide strategies and tactics to survive challenges related to education, finances, faith, relationships, physical and mental health.Contributing Authors: Cheryl Lett, Shawnda DeRamus, Almaz Ware, Amber Simpson, Beverly Engram, Brandi Sanders, Cara Owsley, Carrita Hightower, Danielle Battle, Dawanna Lewis, Delisha Murray, Dianna Pleasant, Dorian Moore, Ivory Patterson, Jessica Frazier, Kamyia Fletcher, Kasi Jordan, Kirsten Hampton, Leah Stewart, Patrice Matthews, Ramona Evans Daniels, Retina Carter, Shahira Schine, Sherry Whitlock, Sheva Stephens, Tammy Solomon Gray, and Tiffaney Hardy.

Conclusively, resilience, education, financial inclusion, digital transformation, strategic partnerships, and particularly change management are needed when crises occur in order to save and advance organizational ecosystems and economies. Therefore, it is crucial to know about the ideation and processes of change management to improve companies’ negative circumstances. Change Management During Unprecedented Times examines organizational change management through the lenses of research and innovative practices contained within the fields of leadership and organizational change. The book enlightens communities through the efforts of a research perspective that amplifies practice-based potential in applying theory, models, and frameworks to real-time issues. Covering topics such as technology, ethics, entrepreneurship, and communication, this reference work is ideal for business owners, managers, researchers, scholars, academicians, practitioners, instructors, and students.

“My Dear Friend, I have sad news. Someone I cherish has just died during the pandemic. I’m going through a challenging time right now, and I could use your support.” So begins this powerful, poignant and inspiring guide to loss and healing in these unprecedented times. It offers compassionate tools we can use immediately— not just for ourselves—but to support friends, family or loved ones coping with loss during the pandemic and its aftermath. By sharing insights and wisdom from the perspective of the bereaved, this provocative book answers questions like, “How should I act?” “What should I say?” and “How can I support myself and others in their healing?” A quick and easy read, written in clear, compassionate language, this small volume fills a large void, especially at this extraordinary moment in our history. If you’d like to support someone suffering loss, or if you yourself are grieving, this guide can help you in this moment when we need each other more than ever. You can read this book in less than an hour, yet the abilities and skills you’ll discover here can help you deepen your relationships for a lifetime. ***** “This is a practical handbook for the bereaved and their friends; how to live with grief, to express it or not, how to find your natural way through. The quotations from Neruda, Machado, Dickinson and others are beautifully chosen.” —Coleman Barks, The Essential Rumi

Our understanding of ourselves and the world as historical has drastically changed since the postwar period, yet this emerging historical sensibility has not been appropriately explained in a coherent theory of history. In this book, Zoltán Simon argues that instead of seeing the past, the present and the future together on a temporal continuum as history, we now expect unprecedented change to happen in the future (in visions of the future of technology, ecology and nuclear warfare) and we look at the past by assuming that such changes have already happened. This radical theory of history challenges narrative conceptualizations of history which assume a past potential of humanity unfolding over time to reach future fulfillment and seeks new ways of conceptualizing the altered socio-cultural concerns Western societies are currently facing. By creating a novel set of concepts to make sense of our altered historical condition regarding both history understood as the course of human affairs and historical writing, History in Times of Unprecedented Change offers a highly original and engaging take on the state of history and historical theory in the present and beyond.

£2.00 of EVERY book sale will be donated to the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund for the WHO"... justgiving page: https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/unprecedentedtimesA COVID FICTION science fiction-dystopian-drama with elements of romance and comedy... based on the real-life events of the COVID-19 pandemic. This fact-meets-fiction novel looks at the events of the pandemic, but taking the story in a very different direction to reality. In reality, we can control the virus, limit our losses, work together to overcome it... but is there a situation where that might not be the case?Follow the pandemic through the eyes of four characters. Clara, a wannabe scientist working as an assistant at the World Health Organisation (WHO). Her boss, Dr Vicente, the kind-hearted Director-General of the WHO. Her twin sister, Rosa, a nurse and new mother. And Rosa's fiancé, Ben, a fun-loving police officer.How will the characters cope when the virus takes a very different turn in this story? And just how far are we willing to go when we are in truly unprecedented times?Real facts and statistics have been used throughout this story. However, the story itself, including all events and characters, are fictional (unless referenced).

Managerial, organizational, and entrepreneurial scholars across disciplines have discussed the topic of resilience from developed economies, yet much remains unknown on its practice during modern times and the crises that have recently affected daily lives, business, and workplaces. Moreover, few experiences of economic instability have been reported from emerging countries, where global competition, economic, social, environmental, and sanitary concerns remain as real challenges. It is essential that both researchers and practitioners explore new perspectives and tools to study resilience at many diverse levels and contexts. The Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship and Organizational Resilience During Unprecedented Times explores experiences in different managerial, organizational, and entrepreneurial issues, particularly from the perspective of emerging countries. By investigating different levels with interdisciplinary approaches and integrative frameworks, it advances new perspectives for future research. Covering topics such as employee creativity, economic crisis, and supply chain management, this major reference work is an indispensable resource for entrepreneurs, business leaders and executives, marketing managers, human resource managers, organization behavior specialists, consultants, government officials, politicians, librarians, students and faculty of higher education, researchers, and academicians.

The COVID-19 pandemic severely impacted businesses and markets across the globe, causing millions of people to lose their jobs as many sectors struggled financially. In addition to addressing global social, environmental, and economic issues, businesses help economies exist, survive, and thrive. Understanding the ideation and processes of organizational development to improve company negative circumstances is crucial. Measuring the Effectiveness of Organizational Development Strategies During Unprecedented Times examines organizational development through the lenses of research and innovative practices contained within the fields of leadership and organizational development/change/design. Covering topics such as change management, learning and development systems, and emerging economies, this book is ideal for business leaders, entrepreneurs, human resource personnel, consultants, economists, government officials, policymakers, librarians, researchers, and more.

This book shines a light on the way in which risk – in and beyond childbirth – is highly contextual, and the way in which risk-management strategies can be understood as socially and materially constructed.

Family businesses are essential economic drivers in the world. Family businesses are not only able of contributing to the economy in a normal situation but have proven to be able to survive the economic recession. However, the resilience of family businesses varies and can differ between countries. Due to this, it is important to get an insight into the resilience of family businesses across countries. Perspectives and Strategies of Family Business Resiliency in Unprecedented Times provides relevant evidence and a theoretical framework of how family businesses survive in difficult times such as an economic recession or a pandemic across countries. Covering key topics such as ownership, entrepreneurship, and digitalization, this reference work is ideal for business owners, managers, researchers, scholars, academicians, practitioners, instructors, and students.

"Young People of the Pandemic" is an intimate glimpse into the psyche of American youth living through the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. Featuring a diverse group of young writers from across the country, this anthology illustrates what it is to be a member of Gen Z in a divided country attempting to conquer the greatest crises of our time.With resilience, bravery, wisdom, honesty, and humor, they tell their stories, not only as a form of emotional expression but also as an exploration into their journeys as they navigate uncertainty and turbulence. Throughout these stories, poems, and anecdotes there is hope on every page, with each piece serving as an example of creative courage. A collection both heartbreaking and heartwarming, "Young People of the Pandemic" captures voices that will be remembered throughout history.