Bøger af Ted Wells

This collection of true short stories tied together with 80 old photographs and the facsimile of 12 original letters) is set in a very remote almost inaccessible part of Ethiopia back in the 1960s when the Emperor, Haile Selassie, was still alive and in power. Partly for the adventure, but also just to escape being drafted into the Vietnam War, a young American couple volunteer to spend two years in a tiny village of grass huts helping several dozen very poor Amhara farmers establish a new town in the lowland jungle of the Rift Valley, The land had recently given to them by the sometimes loved, sometimes loathed Emperor, also an Amhara. The stories are not just about the couple's struggle with fire, disease and death in a totally unfamiliar culture, language and environment, however. They are also gentle stories about how life choices are never black and white and even selfless good intentions can sometime have a serious downside. This book is a "prequel" to Ted Wells' book: "Power, Chaos or Consensus?"

The Consocratic PlanA PLAN FOR THE PLANET The Consocratic Plan is not a new religious text, a vague philosophical theory or a utopian dream. It is an explicit, detailed, voluntary "upgrade" to our existing democracies similar to a very flexible constitutional amendment. It sets out how we might, over time, individually and collectively: Enable many autonomous communities to live in the same area together peacefully, Remove power and the use or threat of force to resolve inter-community differences, Ensure gender equality in all political decisions, Ensure minorities are involved in all political decisions, Ensure social justice, environmental sustainability and economic rationality are always considered simultaneously when making any political decision, Ensure political representatives are personally known to those who select them, Ensure narcissists cannot buy their own selection as political representatives, Avoid election cycles which force short term solutions to long term problems, Remove social media manipulation and fake news from political decisions, Ensure the rapid, peaceful implementation of political decisionsUp until now, any one of these objectives would have seemed totally impossible to achieve in our complex, modern world where power, narcissism, money and males now rule.NOTE This Plan is entirely contained in the "Power, Chaos or Consensus?" book by the author.

A first-of-its-kind book of honest reflections, straight talk, and essential advice about life at big law firms for people of colorWhat do young people of color aspiring to careers in the law need to know about life at big law firms? What do law schools need to do to prepare them? What do the firms themselves need to do to attract, retain, and promote them?In Raising the Bar, four partners of color from leading law firms engage in a no-holds-barred conversation about what it takes to make it in big law using their own journeys to the top to discuss how law firms can do a better job of attracting and holding on to a more diverse set of young attorneys.They also offer advice to the attorneys themselves on how to succeed in a culture that has long excluded them, including finding mentors among those who don't look like you, building a portable toolkit of skills, establishing key connections outside the firm, and staying "e;true to you,"e; even as young associates of color navigate the foreign terrain of insular firm culture.The book also includes a section of concrete advice from diversity coordinators at several top law firms.