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Compassionism: Helping Business Leaders Create Engaged Teams and Happy People Whatever your role, if you lead people and want them to make a positive contribution within your organisation, this book is essential reading. Yes, the front cover is adorned with an oh-so-common platitude regarding people being the ‘greatest asset’. And, no, it is not about being a fluffy, soft, or cuddly leader. Compassionism is a candid, open, relationship-orientated book that hones in on collective communication and humanity. It is a book about people influencing people in a meaningful way. There are, nevertheless, nods to more sympathetic, lenient, and gentler qualities of leadership and management… and rightly so. To lead people, we really ought to do so in an authentic way which shows that we actually care about them and are there for them. Without these seemingly underutilised quieter qualities, leaders will continue to grapple with actually connecting to their people — the world of work needs more le

Image: GeologyIn LONG READ: Climate Change and Unity Introduction This article will show that the study of climate politics can reveal how successfully different actors have sought to govern the international system. Actors have, in part, successfully done this but there is a long way to go if efforts are to have any lasting and meaningful effect. The article will use neorealism and liberal institutionalism, structured on regime theory, as a handrail to show that actors in the anarchical international system cooperate successfully in order to govern climate change. How and why they are successful will be explored in detail using the two theoretical approaches, each having their strengths and weaknesses to discuss. The finding that although there is much to be done, and in difficult settings, different actors in the international system have successfully sought to govern issues within it — especially so when assessing the question through a liberal institutionalist approach. Empirical f

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