Heather McGowan’s widely praised first novel introduces a literary artist of consummate skill, and a narrative voice of astonishing sensitivity and sensuousness. Tracking every mercurial shift of her character’s consciousness, the result is dreamy, disquieting, and achingly alive.Schoolingis a portrait of an adolescent girl, thirteen-year-old Catrine Evans, who following her mother’s death is uprooted from her home in America to an English boarding school. There sh...

Coworkers at a legendary but troubled New York City museum struggle with issues large and small over the course of one extraordinary day in this whip-smart****novel that is “satirical and incisive...like nothing you’ve ready before” (Town & Country).When Diane Schwebe, the director of a major New York museum, is awakened in the early morning by a text message from the museum’s lawyer, it is the start of a twenty-four-hour roller-coaster ride.Diane ...

When business models collide with the real world, it's often necessary to make rapid and decisive changes. Entrepreneurs call this pivoting – and it is not easy. Now, learn how to leverage design and learning skills to prepare for pivots, manage them effectively, and integrate them into a complete innovation framework that works!Business Model Execution - Navigating with the Pivot is part of Philadelphia University's breakthrough approach...

Before you can achieve sustainable, profitable business innovation, you need to understand where you stand now: your strengths, weaknesses, and best opportunities for improvement. Now, discover how to do this, and how to integrate assessment into a complete innovation framework that works.Assessing Your Innovation Capability is part of Philadelphia University's breakthrough team-based approach to innovation: one that links business, design and eng...

Most great opportunities fail. The #1 reason: companies can't effectively scope their best opportunities. Scoping is where failure rates are highest. Now, discover how to use design thinking to radically improve the way you scope opportunities, and integrate opportunity development into a complete innovation framework that works.Design Process and Opportunity Development is part of Philadelphia University's breakthrough approach to innovation: one that lin...

A guide for individuals and organizations navigating the complex and ambiguous Future of WorkForeword by New York Times columnist and best-selling author Thomas L. FriedmanTechnology is changing work as we know it. Cultural norms are undergoing tectonic shifts. A global pandemic proves that we are inextricably connected whether we choose to be or not. So much change, so quickly, is disorienting. It's undermining our sense of identi...

Empower and Inspire Human PotentialIn the decade before the Covid-19 pandemic, change was coming so quickly and across so many vectors that most business leaders – so busy tackling one new challenge after another - missed the trendlines that would collide in the early months of 2020 and forever change their workforce and how they lead it for generations to come.In The Empathy Advantage: Leading the Empowered Workforce, Heather E. McGowan and Chris ...

Higher education helps students along a transformative path to citizenship by providing knowledge and experiences that help them become effective and responsible participants in democracy. The pedagogies discussed in this book vary in the student populations they target, the courses to which they are linked, and the nature of the democratic principles to which students are exposed; nevertheless, the authors maintain a unified commitment to preparing students for a life of democratic citize...

Higher Education Implications for Teaching and Learning during COVID-19 provides different perspectives regarding the impact of COVID-19 on college teaching and learning and on students, both collectively and individually. Contributors argue that the pandemic forced a higher education reckoning as institutions around the world were forced to shut their physical doors and open up their online platforms in a wider capacity. While these concerns are linked to a certain point in time, there is...

We stand at an inflection point where technology can be leveraged to unleash human potential, or it can pit humans against machines. Heather McGowan and Chris Shipley have dedicated the last five years to understanding how technical, business, and cultural shifts have brought us to this place in order to construct this comprehensive and approachable guide to the future of work.Blending insights from interviews with hundreds of executives with insights on professional and cultural i...

In the decade before the Covid-19 pandemic, change was coming so quickly and across so many vectors that most business leaders—so busy tackling one new challenge after another—missed the trendlines that would collide in the early months of 2020 and forever change their workforce.In The Empathy Advantage, Heather E. McGowan and Chris Shipley deliver a guidebook for leaders navigating the uncertainty of a post pandemic world in this sequel to The Adaptation Advantage