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27%OFFLaura A. Liswood - The Loudest Duck: Moving Beyond Diversity while Embracing Differences to Achieve Success at Work - 9780470485842 - V9780470485842
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The Loudest Duck: Moving Beyond Diversity while Embracing Differences to Achieve Success at Work

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Description for The Loudest Duck: Moving Beyond Diversity while Embracing Differences to Achieve Success at Work Hardcover. 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. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: KJMV2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 148 x 21. Weight in Grams: 326.

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 ... Read more

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. Show Less

Product Details

Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780470485842
SKU
V9780470485842
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Ref
99-38

About Laura A. Liswood
LAURA LISWOOD is a Senior Advisor and former managing director for Global Leadership and Diversity at Goldman Sachs and is Secretary General of the Council of Women World Leaders. She has held executive positions in the banking, cable television, and airline industries, and cofounded The White House Project.

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