Eric R. Kushins – författare

For readers who want to understand the hidden logic of how teams actually work, this book challenges the myth of the perfectly aligned, “optimized” culture and instead reveals how tension and conflict make real teams resilient.Drawing on eighteen months of immersive observation inside four small firms, Eric R. Kushins offers a rare, firsthand look at teams in action. He uncovers how effective team cultures emerge, shift, and sustain themselves over time. Readers gain new conceptual tools for recognizing how relationships, rituals, and routines shape organizational performance, along with practical strategies for managing the cultural cycle of stability, crisis, and growth.Culture is not a program to be rolled out. It is a performance lived every day. By understanding the dynamics that govern team interaction, leaders can better coordinate work, manage tension, and build organizations capable of navigating change. Hidden Rhythms of Teams is an essential guide for executives, HR leaders, consultants, entrepreneurs, family business owners, and MBA students seeking to build organizations that perform, adapt, and endure.

For readers who want to understand the hidden logic of how teams actually work, this book challenges the myth of the perfectly aligned, “optimized” culture and instead reveals how tension and conflict make real teams resilient.Drawing on eighteen months of immersive observation inside four small firms, Eric R. Kushins offers a rare, firsthand look at teams in action. He uncovers how effective team cultures emerge, shift, and sustain themselves over time. Readers gain new conceptual tools for recognizing how relationships, rituals, and routines shape organizational performance, along with practical strategies for managing the cultural cycle of stability, crisis, and growth.Culture is not a program to be rolled out. It is a performance lived every day. By understanding the dynamics that govern team interaction, leaders can better coordinate work, manage tension, and build organizations capable of navigating change. Hidden Rhythms of Teams is an essential guide for executives, HR leaders, consultants, entrepreneurs, family business owners, and MBA students seeking to build organizations that perform, adapt, and endure.

Contemporary Social Problems and Your World: An Anthology provides students with engaging and enlightening readings that help them better understand what sociology is, how social problems emerge in society, the ways inequality impacts people, and the forces that enable social change.The anthology is organized into thematic units that introduce sociological concepts as they relate to social problems. In Unit One, students are introduced to sociological thought and the ways social problems are constructed through social actors. Unit Two focuses on sociological theory and core concepts, helping readers understand how social problems operate. In Unit Three, students examine how aspects of inequality, including homelessness, poverty, gender, and race, affect society. In Unit Four, students are encouraged to explore how social change happens and how we can move to a more equitable future.Designed to help students examine their place in the world through exploring the interrelationships between history, political structures, institutional power, culture, and individual agency, Contemporary Social Problems and Your World is an ideal anthology for introductory courses in sociology.

Introduction to Sociology: An Anthology provides students with a curated collection of readings that help them develop a foundational understanding of sociological concepts and how these concepts operate in the real world. The volume provides them with an introduction to a variety of social problems and the processes by which social change occurs.The text is organized into six distinct units, which explore core concepts in sociology; socialization, social interaction, and social change; stratification; politics, deviance, and social control; families and intimate relationships; and the environment, social movements, and social change. Students learn about cultural structures, sex and gender, the safety of women and girls in educational settings, crime and control, intimate partner violence, power dynamics and relationships, and more. Each unit features an editor's introduction to provide students with meaningful context and end-of-unit discussion questions to inspire critical thought and support retention of the material. Developed to help students better understand how culture, institutions, stratification, and inequality structure our lives, Introduction to Sociology is an ideal resource for foundational courses within the discipline.