KGNU's Claudia Cragg talks here for the

radio show/podcast 'It's The

Economy' with Susan Packard, the co-founder of HGTV and the

only female founding member of Scripps Networks.

(Twitter: @PackardSusan)

Women in the workforce have heard

it all: Lean in, lean out, be bossy, be passive, separate work and

home life…the conflicting guidance can be dizzying. So, Packard has

simplified the rules. In

NEW RULES OF THE GAME: 10 Strategies for Women in the

Workplace (Prentice Hall Press/Penguin, February

2014).

In this, she uses her thirty

years of experience - from 'secretary' to Executive VP - to give

women an encouraging and achievable strategy for accomplishing

workplace goals: gamesmanship.

Packard says that she has

realized what’s really important in corporate America: to her, it

is learning a man's rules for grit and gamesmanship and then

outplaying them. It's not about platitudes or appearances, but

rather utilizing the strategic thinking regularly found in sports

and video games that men typically excel in to develop creativity,

focus, optimism, teamwork and ultimately success.  

However, her advice applies NOT

ONLY to women. Men, millennials and even children, have a lot to

learn from what she has to say.

KGNU's Claudia Cragg speaks here for the

'It's The Economy' with AOL's "Steve" Case.

Case, whose full name is Stephen

McConnell Case', is an American entrepreneur, investor, and

businessman. He is best known as the co-founder and former chief

executive officer and chairman of America Online

(AOL).

Twitter: @SteveCase @ThirdWaveBook

Since his retirement as chairman

of AOL Time Warner in 2003, he has gone on to invest in early

and growth-stage startups through his Washington, D.C. based

venture capital firm Revolution

LLC.

Case serves as a Presidential

Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship (PAGE) and was a member of

Barack

Obama'sCouncil

on Jobs and Competitiveness. He also serves on the

National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship

(NACIE). Case is also chairman of UP Global, a non-profit

organization focused on fostering strong entrepreneurial

communities, created in 2013 from the merger of Startup America

Partnership and Startup Weekend.

Together with his wife, Joan,

they run The Case

Foundation. 

His new book is:

The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur's Vision of the

Future

KGNU's Claudia Cragg speaks here with

Don Tapscott, a Canadian man whose name is profoundly

associated with new technologies and business practice. He

is the CEO of the Tapscott Group and one of the most

influential living theorists about business and society.

(Twitter: @dtapscott)

In November 2013,

'Thinkers 50' named him the 4th most important business thinker

in the world.

A June 2013 Forbes.com analysis

of social media identified him as the most influential management

thinker in the world.

He is the author or co-author of

15 widely read books about new technologies and new

media, 

Tapscott is the author of 15

books about the digital revolution in business and society,

including

Wikinomics and the landmark work, The

Digital Economy, which has just been published in a 20th

Anniversary edition. He is also chancellor of Trent

University.

Alex Tapscott is the CEO of North West Passage Ventures, an

advisory firm building early stage companies in the blockchain

space. (Twitter: @alextapscott)

Together, they are authors of

the new book,

The Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind

Bitcoin is Changing Money, Business and the World.

's Claudia Cragg speaks here with about his new book, ' Twitter:  Schatzker believes that we are in the grip of a food crisis. Obesity has become a leading cause of preventable death, after only smoking. For nearly half a century we’ve been trying to pin the blame somewhere—fat, carbs, sugar, wheat, high-fructose corn syrup. But that search has been in vain, because the food problem that’s killing us is not a nutrient problem. It’s a behavioral problem, and it’s caused by the changing flavor of the food we eat. Ever since the 1940s, with the rise of industrialized food production, we have been gradually leeching the taste out of what we grow. Simultaneously, we have taken great leaps forward in technology, creating a flavor industry, worth billions annually, in an attempt to put back the tastes we’ve engineered out of our food. The result is a national cuisine that increasingly resembles the paragon of flavor manipulation: Doritos. As food—all food—becomes increasingly bland, we dress it up with calories and flavor chemicals to make it delicious again. We have rewired our palates and our brains, and the results are making us sick and killing us. With in-depth historical and scientific research, The Dorito Effect casts the food crisis in a fascinating new light, weaving an enthralling tale of how we got to this point and where we are headed. We’ve been telling ourselves that our addiction to flavor is the problem, but it is actually the solution. We are on the cusp of a new revolution in agriculture that will allow us to eat healthier and live longer by enjoying flavor the way nature intended.

's Claudia Cragg speaks here with - @TomKochan - on  He lays out in discussion a comprehensive strategy for changing the course the American economy and employment system have been on for the past 30 years. The goal is to create more productive businesses that also provide good jobs and careers and by doing so build a more inclusive economy and broadly shared prosperity. This will require workers to acquire new sources of bargaining power and for business, labor, government, and educators to work together to meet the challenges and opportunities facing the next generation workforce. The book reviews what worked well for average workers, families, and the economy during the era of the post-World War II Social Contract, why that contract broke down, and how, working together, we can build a new social contract suitable to today s economy and workforce. The ideas presented here come from direct engagement with next generation workers who participated in devoted to the future of work and from the author's and active involvement with business, government, and labor leaders over how to foster innovations in workplace practices and policies.

Over 2 million of the United States' 11 million undocumented immigrants have lived in the United States since childhood. Due to a broken immigration system, they grow up to uncertain futures. 's Claudia Cragg speaks here with the author of Lives in Limbo, Roberto G. Gonzales, Assistant Professor of Education at Harvard University. Twitter:  In this work, Gonzales introduces the reader  to two groups: the college-goers, like Ricardo, who had good grades and a strong network of community support that propelled him to college and DREAM Act organizing but still landed in a factory job a few short years after graduation, and those who make an early exit, like Gabriel, who failed to make meaningful connections in high school and started navigating dead-end jobs, immigration checkpoints, and a world narrowly circumscribed by legal limitations. Gonzales' vivid ethnography explores why highly educated undocumented youth share similar work and life outcomes with their less-educated peers, despite the fact that higher education is touted as the path to integration and success in America. Mining the results of an extraordinary twelve-year study that followed 150 undocumented young adults in Los Angeles, Lives in Limbo exposes the failures of a system that integrates children into K-12 schools but ultimately denies them the rewards of their labor.

's Claudia Cragg speaks here (click on 'pod' link next to title to listen to the interview) with Pamela Hodges of .

She is "Pamela, not Pam. The non-stick spray ruined the shortened version of (her) name. She writes about art, creativity, and everyday life with cat barf and seven litter boxes."

This is the story of one woman's creativity from Canada, to Japan, to the US, via photography, graphic design and sheer determination.

You can for free get a PDF copy of her new coloring book, "," simply by texting 

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KINDLY NOTE 10 percent of all proceeds from Color The Cat are contractually donated by Pamela Hodges to the . The biggest US 'no-kill' rescue organization.

speaks here with KGNU's Claudia Cragg, in a special edition of for the 2016 KGNU Denver/Boulder Spring Fund Drive.

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She recently wrote a highly respected article for TomDispatch's TomGram on ', a discussion which is particularly pertinent for #Election2016.

She is also the author of many well-known books including 

Ms. Jones is an independent scholar, journalist, photographer, and the author of ten books of nonfiction. 

Her work focuses on women "and other underdogs" and on the historical/social/political structures which, she considers, do so much to perpetuate injustice.

She has written extensively about violence against women, reported from Afghanistan, Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East on the impact of war upon civilians, and embedded with U.S. forces in Afghanistan to report on the damage done to America’s soldiers.

Widely published, her articles currently appear most often in The Nation and online at TomDispatch.com. She holds a PhD in English and history from the University of Wisconsin.

In recent years, her work has received generous support from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, and the U.S.-Norway Fulbright Foundation. She is now (2015-16) an associate of the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University

@KGNUClaudia (Claudia Cragg) speaks here with Sari Wilson whose beautifully crafted, just published novel, Girl Through Glass, is causing a sensation.

Her story tells the tale of a young girl’s coming of age in the cutthroat world of New York City ballet—a story of obsession and the quest for perfection, trust and betrayal, beauty and lost innocence.

In the roiling summer of 1977, eleven-year-old Mira is an aspiring ballerina in the romantic, highly competitive world of New York City ballet.

Enduring the mess of her parent’s divorce, she finds escape in dance—the rigorous hours of practice, the exquisite beauty, the precision of movement, the obsessive perfectionism.

Ballet offers her control, power, and the promise of glory.

It also introduces her to forty-seven-year-old Maurice DuPont, a reclusive, charismatic balletomane who becomes her mentor.

Over the course of three years, Mira is accepted into the prestigious School of American Ballet run by the legendary George Balanchine, and eventually becomes one of “Mr. B’s girls”—a dancer of rare talent chosen for greatness.

As she ascends higher in the ballet world, her relationship with Maurice intensifies, touching dark places within herself and sparking unexpected desires that will upend both their lives.

In the present day, Kate, a professor of dance at a Midwestern college, embarks on a risky affair with a student that threatens to obliterate her career and capsizes the new life she has painstakingly created for her reinvented self.

When she receives a letter from a man she’s long thought dead, Kate is hurled back into the dramas of a past she thought she had left behind.

Told in interweaving narratives that move between past and present, Girl Through Glass illuminates the costs of ambition, secrets, and the desire for beauty, and reveals how the sacrifices we make for an ideal can destroy—or save—us.

Author Janice Y K Lee comes to Denver's 16th Street 'Tattered Cover' this coming Monday 25th January at 7:00 pm. For further details, please call: 1 303 436 1070

KGNU's Claudia Cragg speaks here with Janice Y.K. Lee "whose New York Times bestselling debut was The Piano Teacher (called “immensely satisfying” by People, “intensely readable” by O, The Oprah Magazine, and “a rare and exquisite story” by Elizabeth Gilbert.)"

"Now, in her long-awaited new novel, 'The Expatriates', Lee explores with devastating poignancy the emotions, identities, and relationships of three very different American women living in the same small expat community in Hong Kong."Mercy, a young Korean American and recent Columbia graduate, is adrift, undone by a terrible incident in her recent past. Hilary, a wealthy housewife, is haunted by her struggle to have a child, something she believes could save her foundering marriage. Meanwhile, Margaret, once a happily married mother of three, questions her maternal identity in the wake of a shattering loss. As each woman struggles with her own demons, their lives collide in ways that have irreversible consequences for them all. Atmospheric, moving, and utterly compelling.