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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
ISBN-10
0470485841
ISBN-13
9780470485842
eBay Product ID (ePID)
73296004
Product Key Features
Book Title
Loudest Duck : Moving Beyond Diversity While Embracing Differences to Achieve Success at Work
Number of Pages
192 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2009
Topic
Personal Success, Organizational Behavior, Management, Workplace Culture
Genre
Business & Economics
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
12 Oz
Item Length
8.6 in
Item Width
5.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2009-025211
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
658.3008
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments xv Introduction xi Chapter 1 Beware of Noah's Ark 1 Objections to Diversity 26 Chapter 2 The Elephant and the Mouse 31 Combining Forces 41 Point of View 46 Chapter 3 Tell Your Grandma to Go Home 49 Necessary but Not Sufficient 52 Preconceived Notions Have Roots 54 Chapter 4 What's Easy for You Is Hard for Me and How to Navigate the Differences 65 Getting Noticed in Noah's Ark 67 Getting Out of Your Own Comfort Zone 72 Critical Feedback 83 Who Apologizes and Who Interrupts 91 Mentoring 94 Chapter 5 Unwritten Rules 99 Subtle Inequities 103 Chapter 6 We Hire for Difference and Fire Because They Are Not the Same 113 The Danger of Unconscious Thinking, Speaking, and Acting 113 Chapter 7 The Tools in Your Toolbox 135 Think about the People on Your Team 139 Learn to Recognize Other People's "Grandmas" 140 Fair and Equal with Access, Knowledge, and Feedback 142 Be Careful with Your Words, and How You Interpret the Words of Others 144 The Silent Have Something to Say 146 Results Should Be the Determinant 147 Conclusion 148 References 151 Index 157
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Praise for the Loudest Duck "Laura Liswood has both great theoretical and practical understanding of diversity why it is important in organizations and why attempts to create it often fail to deliver. The Loudest Duck is essential reading for anyone who wants to maximize the effectiveness of organizations or just wants to understand why things are the way they are." Rt. Hon. Kim Campbell, Canadas 19th and first female prime minister "Laura Liswood brilliantly shows us how to get to Diversity 2.0 and beyond. A workplace of people from different backgrounds can lead to tensions, but this book shows, with great insights and examples, how it can lead to real creativity instead. Its an indispensable guide for managers and leaders and also for anyone who wants to succeed in any aspect of life." Walter Isaacson, President and Chief Executive Officer, The Aspen Institute "Lauras timing is perfect, and her message is spot on. Embracing diversity creates competitive advantage. Her book should be mandatory reading for everyone in business today. In the most engaging, fun, and real way, Laura gets to the heart of the opportunity enabling Noahs diverse floating Ark to fly to the moon and beyond." Beth Brooke, Global Vice Chair of Public Policy, Sustainability and Stakeholder Engagement, Ernst & Young " The Loudest Duck is one of the clearest and most profoundly informative analyses of why, despite decades of effort and investment, most diversity initiatives fail to produce the promised benefits to organizations or their employees. This book goes beyond analysis and provides a new language of metaphor that captures the unexamined dynamics of dominance, unearned privilege, and unconscious bias that undermine our attempts to create truly diverse and inclusive workplaces. It is a must reading for leaders who are serious about diversity and inclusion in their organizations." David A. Thomas, H. Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School; author of Breaking Through: The Making of Minority Executives in Corporate America, Written in an accessible style, The Loudest Duck is a business fable that offers an alternate view of a multicultural workplace through the use of practical stories and cultural anecdotes. For instance, the Chinese teach their children, "The loudest duck gets shot," a viewpoint that gets carried into adulthood, while many Americans are taught, "The squeaky wheel gets the grease." As a result, you find two distinct ways of doing business, neither one being necessarily the right or better way. By understanding others' viewpoint, you can understand how better to work with them., From squeaky wheels to loud ducks, this book will help you to understand and accept differences at work This business fable offers readers an alternate view of diversity through the use of practical stories and cultural anecdotes., Diversity in the workplace is a wonderful thing--but it also challenges many of today's business leaders. For managers and team-members alike, it can be difficult to navigate in a truly diverse workplace made up of people of different cultures, races, creeds, body types, hobbies, genders, religions, styles, and sexual orientations. But understanding our cultural and social differences is a major key to a high-performing, merit-based work environment. The Loudest Duck is a business guide that explores workplace diversity and presents new ideas for getting the most business and organizational benefit from it. In the Chinese children's parable, the loudest duck is the one that gets shot. In America, we like to say that the squeaky wheel gets the grease. Comparing the two, it's easy to see that our different cultures teach us different sets of values, and those values often translate into different ways of doing business that may subtly advantage one culture at work and disadvantage another. In the global marketplace, it's more important than ever that we understand and are conscious of our differences to work together effectively. It is not enough to create Noah's Ark, bringing in two of each kind. We all bring our unconscious beliefs and personal narratives about who we are and who others are with us to work and, with diversity in place, we can no longer ignore them. Truly effective leaders can't pretend that we're all the same or that our preferences and preconceptions don't exist. The Loudest Duck offers a way to move beyond traditional diversity efforts that ignore our differences and toward modern diversity practices that embrace those differences--and profit from them. Diverse organizations require more sophisticated leadership, conscious awareness of diversity issues, new behavioral patterns, and effective tools for reaping the benefits of true diversity. This book will help you develop the skills you need and the tools you can use to go beyond what Grandma taught you to make diversity work in your business. More than just an enlightening tale about diversity, The Loudest Duck is a powerful resource for any manager, business owner, team leader, or employee who wants to meet the challenges of the modern heterogeneous workplace. It's not simply about accepting others--it's about ensuring a level playing field for everyone and building an organization that gets the best from all its people.
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HF5549.5.M5L57 2010
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