Loudest Duck Moving Beyond Diversity While Embracing Differences to Achieve Success at Work

Name: Loudest Duck Moving Beyond Diversity While Embracing Differences to Achieve Success at Work
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ISBN: 9780470485842

ISBN-10: 0470485841

ISBN-13: 9780470485842

Edition: 2010

Authors: Laura A. Liswood

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A business fable that explains why organizations need to move beyond the old-style diversity efforts to actually benefit from differenceIn today's modern workplaces with their many different types of people, cultural and personal differences can be challenges-whether you're a team-member or a business leader. Different cultures teach different values and we carry those values throughout adulthood and into the office environment. Understanding the cultural and gender viewpoints of our colleagues is a major key to healthy, conflict-free work environments.This fable takes its name from a Chinese children's parable about how "the loudest duck gets shot." It's a parable that contrasts with the…

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List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Limited
Publication date: 12/11/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 192
Size: 5.60" wide x 8.60" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.682



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Beware of Noah's Ark


Objections to Diversity



The Elephant and the Mouse


Combining Forces


Point of View



Tell Your Grandma to Go Home


Necessary but Not Sufficient


Preconceived Notions Have Roots



What's Easy for You is Hard for Me and How to Navigate the Differences


Getting Noticed in Noah's Ark


Getting Out of Your Own Comfort Zone


Critical Feedback


Who Apologizes and Who Interrupts


Mentoring



Unwritten Rules


Subtle Inequities



We Hire for Difference and Fire Because They Are Not the Same


The Danger of Unconscious Thinking, Speaking, and Acting



The Tools in Your Toolbox


Think about the people on Your Team


Learn to Recognize Other People's "Grandmas"


Fair and Equal with Access, Knowledge, and Feedback


Be Careful with Your Words, and How You Interpret the Words of Others


The Silent Have Something to Say


Results Should Be the Determinant


Conclusion


References


Index