The End of Diversity As We Know It: Why Diversity Efforts Fail and How Leveraging Difference Can Succeed
Why Diversity Efforts Fail and How Leveraging Difference Can Succeed
Published on 17. November 2011
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-1-60509-343-7 (ISBN)
Description
Martin Davidson makes the bold claim that millions, maybe billions, of dollars in diversity training are being wasted. Attrition statistics show a revolving door for women and minorities, but companies are still recruiting and promoting employees as they've always done. As Chief Diversity Officer at the Darden School of Business (University of Virginia) and as a consultant with top Fortune 100 firms like AT&T and Merrill Lynch, Martin Davidson has found a better way: stop forcing diversity on people as a goal in and of itself, a matter of percentages and head counts, and instead use it strategically, creating business improvement strategies that draw on employees' different strengths. Make cultivating difference a core competency and enjoy the improvements in innovation, marketing, and business execution that are the natural result. Stop focusing on a narrow band of superficially diverse groups, and welcome deeper differences in lifestyles, economic backgrounds, and viewpoints.
Davidson calls this new way "Leveraging Difference," which sees diversity NOT as a problem to be solved, but as an opportunity to make better business strategies. Net result: diversity that really moves the organization forward, not just another training program that changes little.
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Language
English
Place of publication
San Francisco
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Paper over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 243 mm
Width: 167 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
503 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-60509-343-7 (9781605093437)
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Why Diversity Efforts Fail and How Leveraging Difference Can Succeed
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Content
INTRODUCTION: A NEW POSSIBILITY FOR DIFFERENCE
Who This Book Can Help
Overview and Roadmap for the Book
The Research Methodology
Conclusion
CHAPTER 1: THE END OF DIVERSITY AS WE KNOW IT
Current Approaches to Diversity Are Failing
The Problem with Managing Diversity
How It Can Be Done Differently
Key Takeaways
CHAPTER 2: THE BEGINNING OF LEVERAGING DIFFERENCE
After Managing Diversity
Context
Leadership Perspective
Strategic Focus
Scope of Differences Engaged
Impact of Change
The Intersection of Managing Diversity and Leveraging Difference
What Next?
Key Takeaways
CHAPTER 3: THE LEVERAGING DIFFERENCE CAPABILITY, by Martin N. Davidson & Heather R. Wishik
The Leveraging Difference Capability
The Case of Wipro Technologies
The Leveraging Difference Cycle at Wipro
Key Takeaways
CHAPTER 4: SEEING DIFFERENCE
The Cost of Not Seeing Relevant Difference
How to See Difference
Conclusion
Key Takeaways
CHAPTER 5: UNDERSTANDING DIFFERENCE
How to Understand Difference
How Understanding Difference Encourages Seeing Difference
Key Takeaways
CHAPTER 6: ENGAGING DIFFERENCE, by Martin Davidson and Heather Wishik
How to Engage Difference
Offer a Vision of Business Benefits to Be Seized
Involve Multiple Stakeholders
Support Innovative Approaches
Stay the Course
Be Open to Being Changed
Caveat: Not All Engaging Difference Experiments Are Successful
Conclusion
Key Takeaways
CHAPTER 7: BECOMING A LEVERAGING DIFFERENCE ORGANIZATION, by Martin N. Davidson & Heather R. Wishik
How You Know When You Are Leveraging Difference
How Leaders Move their Organization to Leveraging Difference
Conclusion
Key Takeaways
EPILOGUE: THE POWER OF THE MARGIN
Taking from the Margin to Rethink the Whole
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Who This Book Can Help
Overview and Roadmap for the Book
The Research Methodology
Conclusion
CHAPTER 1: THE END OF DIVERSITY AS WE KNOW IT
Current Approaches to Diversity Are Failing
The Problem with Managing Diversity
How It Can Be Done Differently
Key Takeaways
CHAPTER 2: THE BEGINNING OF LEVERAGING DIFFERENCE
After Managing Diversity
Context
Leadership Perspective
Strategic Focus
Scope of Differences Engaged
Impact of Change
The Intersection of Managing Diversity and Leveraging Difference
What Next?
Key Takeaways
CHAPTER 3: THE LEVERAGING DIFFERENCE CAPABILITY, by Martin N. Davidson & Heather R. Wishik
The Leveraging Difference Capability
The Case of Wipro Technologies
The Leveraging Difference Cycle at Wipro
Key Takeaways
CHAPTER 4: SEEING DIFFERENCE
The Cost of Not Seeing Relevant Difference
How to See Difference
Conclusion
Key Takeaways
CHAPTER 5: UNDERSTANDING DIFFERENCE
How to Understand Difference
How Understanding Difference Encourages Seeing Difference
Key Takeaways
CHAPTER 6: ENGAGING DIFFERENCE, by Martin Davidson and Heather Wishik
How to Engage Difference
Offer a Vision of Business Benefits to Be Seized
Involve Multiple Stakeholders
Support Innovative Approaches
Stay the Course
Be Open to Being Changed
Caveat: Not All Engaging Difference Experiments Are Successful
Conclusion
Key Takeaways
CHAPTER 7: BECOMING A LEVERAGING DIFFERENCE ORGANIZATION, by Martin N. Davidson & Heather R. Wishik
How You Know When You Are Leveraging Difference
How Leaders Move their Organization to Leveraging Difference
Conclusion
Key Takeaways
EPILOGUE: THE POWER OF THE MARGIN
Taking from the Margin to Rethink the Whole
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
About the Author