The Elephant and the Mouse
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Explore diversity, equity, and inclusion that goes beyond unconscious bias and explores the ideas and tools needed to achieve these goals In The Elephant and the Mouse, award-winning speaker and diversity and inclusion expert Laura Liswood delivers a thought-provoking and insightful new business guide that explores workplace diversity and offers new ideas for gaining the real benefits from your diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. The Elephant and the Mouse refers to the dynamic in organizations that are roadblocks to consciously inclusive success. The Elephant, often dominant group leadership, knows little about the experiences of the Mouse, the non-dominant groups, while the Mouse knows so much more about the Elephant. In diverse workplaces, these two groups live in different worlds. Success will come only if everyone works in a true meritocracy. You learn what may be easy for some to do in their career is much harder for others to do. In this book, which builds upon Liswood's groundbreaking book, The Loudest Duck, you'll explore the powerful case for diversity, equity, and inclusion and the often-overlooked risks posed by a homogeneous workforce. You will learn the hard truths about why many DE&I efforts fail, millions of dollars are wasted, and why organizations confuse efforts with outcomes. You'll consider new ways of leading others, with a strong emphasis on tactics and strategies employed by successful Elephant and Mouse leaders, including women leaders. The book also includes: Realistic explanations for the slow progress in diversity, equity, inclusion and social justice in society and organizations Examinations of the concept and myths of meritocracy and how to conduct a Meritocracy Stress Test on your firm How organizations often have an illusion of inclusion but find their efforts not creating the inclusive, equitable teams they say they want How safety efforts can provide a roadmap for diversity missions An exploration of both the human interventions and non-human roles of technology in DE&I initiatives, including the use of people analytics to de-bias organizations What tools are needed to go beyond awareness of unconscious bias to de-bias processes and what traits the new Elephant and Mouse leader has An indispensable resource for managers, executives, and other business leaders who seek to recreate truly diverse, inclusive, and equitable organizations, The Elephant and the Mouse is also a must-read for human resources professionals, individuals who want successful careers in diverse teams, and anyone involved in the hiring, retaining, and promoting processes. This book offers a way to move beyond traditional diversity efforts towards more modern practices that embrace—and profit from—the differences between people.
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Laura A. Liswood. The Elephant and the Mouse
Table of Contents
Guide
Pages
Praise for The Elephant And The Mouse
The Elephant and the Mouse
Moving Beyond the Illusion of Inclusion to Create a Truly Diverse and Equitable Workplace
Acknowledgments
Introduction
THE DIVERSITY OF DIVERSITY
NOTES
Chapter 1 Hard Truths. WHAT ARE THE HARD TRUTHS ABOUT DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION?
BUILDING AWARENESS
FEELINGS OF TAKE AWAY
WHY GIVING WOMEN A SEAT AT THE TABLE PAYS OFF
THE “GLASS CLIFF” PHENOMENON
THE NOT SO GOOD
THE MODEL T VERSUS THE TESLA
NOTES
Chapter 2 The Elephant and the Mouse
MEN AND WOMEN: LIVING IN TWO DIFFERENT WORLDS?
OUR WINDOWS TO THE WORLD
NOTES
Chapter 3 Beyond the Business Case for Diversity: Rewards and Risks
REWARDS
RISKS
NOTES
Chapter 4 Our Illusions, Myths, and Mindsets
THE MYTH OF MERITOCRACY
THE TEST RESULTS
THE ILLUSION OF INCLUSION
MISTAKE EFFORT FOR OUTCOME
WHOSE RESPONSIBILITY IS IT? THE SEED AND THE SOIL
THE SEED AND THE SOIL: IT TAKES BOTH
NOTES
Chapter 5 What You Can Do Easily
IT IS NOT THE NORM
ASKING FOR A PROMOTION VERSUS LOOKING AGGRESSIVE
NOTES
Chapter 6 We Are All Human, with Help from Nonhumans
THE WINGMAN OR WING WOMAN
THE ALLY
THE INDEPENDENT INTERLOCUTOR/SCRIBE
ACTIVE BYSTANDER
NONHUMAN HELP
NOTES
Chapter 7 The Elephant and Mouse Inclusive Leader
NOTES
Bibliography
About the Author
Index
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“Addressing diversity and inclusion is a global, societal, and moral issue of utmost importance. At Mercer, we take an evidence‐based approach to solving diversity, equity, and inclusion challenges. As a people business, having colleagues with diverse backgrounds, perspectives, experiences, and cultures brings a richness of ideas that, in turn, helps us make brighter futures for everyone. Leaders need to be the north stars for their people, and they need to enable other leaders to support employees and execute DEI strategy through everyday actions. Companies are a large part of society with both the ability and the obligation to create progress across diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Laura Liswood's expertise in the fields and diversity of leadership is exceptional. We are fortunate to have her voice and her knowledge, as so eloquently shared in The Elephant and the Mouse. The Elephant and the Mouse outlines how we can understand both our conscious and unconscious biases and the ways they affect our perspectives and our decisions–both personally and professionally–across all facets of our lives. The Elephant and the Mouse shows the ways in which diversity alone is not enough and how we can all work together to help close the gaps between us.
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Much has changed and yet progress has not been as manifest in the diversity world as it should be, given all of the noise made and efforts that organizations have tried. Diversity has now expanded to diversity, equity, and inclusion, commonly referred to as DEI. It also embraces social justice in its broadened aperture. I have no doubt that 10 years from now there will be further expansion of our understanding and embrace of these concepts.
Unconscious bias training has been seen as an essential part of changing people's mindsets about what views they harbor about others who are different than they are. In my perspective, unconscious bias training has been a ground‐shifting exercise, but has not completed the effort. This training must be added onto with actual practical tools for behavior change, for means to de‐bias both thinking and processes. Awareness does not necessarily lead to shifts in our behaviors.
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