There Is No Place Like Work: Seven Leadership Insights for Creating a Workplace to Call Home

Based on hands-on, real-world research and concepts used by CEOs, managers and employees in organizations ranging from Fortune 500 to nonprofit, There Is No Place Like Work shows how organizations have accomplished and can accomplish the ultimate goal of managing their CORE Culture.

Dr. Sheila L. Margolis and Dr. Ava S. Wilensky are the authors of the practical and innovative business book There Is No Place Like Work: Seven Leadership Insights for Creating a Workplace to Call Home (Gibbs Smith, 2006). Based on research that earned the 1998 Award for Distinguished Contribution to Human Resource Development Research, this book shows leaders how to use workplace culture to achieve organizational success and find personal meaning through work.
Margolis and Wilensky hold doctoral degrees in Human Resource Development. They have over 50 years of combined experience in training and development, healthcare management, communication, workplace mediation, education and community counseling.
Drs. Margolis and Wilensky were the founding partners of CORE InSites® Inc., an Atlanta based management consulting firm that was both NWBOC and WBENC certified. Dr. Margolis is now President of Workplace Culture Institute. She conducts culture assessments and employee engagement surveys, and leads culture change.
Since 1996, they have worked with a diverse corporate, nonprofit and association client base. Examples include Cingular Wireless, Acuity Brands, Shaw Industries, Lotus Cars USA, Georgia State University, American College of Rheumatology, the Anti-Defamation League, Georgia Society of Association Executives and St. Jude’s Recovery Center.
Drs. Margolis and Wilensky serve as adjunct professors at Georgia State University where they teach courses in business communication, strategic planning, needs analysis and qualitative research. They have been published widely in the professional and academic press including Human Resource Development Quarterly, Human Resource Development Review, Performance Improvement Quarterly, Association Management magazine and American Venture Magazine. Their quarterly column, Housecalls at Work, appears in Connections magazine. Drs.