Giving Notice

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A groundbreaking book that offers approaches for changing thehidden biases in the workplace This is an eye-opening examination of the causes and dynamics ofbias in the workplace, offering a psychological, political, andsocietal analysis of the actual cost of bias to the bottom line.The authors make the hurdles that women and minorities face in theworkplace as personal to the reader as they are to those who facethem. Giving Notice is filled with sensible approaches for solvingthe current imbalance and challenges us to rethink unconsciousideas about stereotypes and commonly accepted businesspractices. Freada Kapor Klein (San Francisco, CA) is an internationally notedconsultant and diversity expert. She has been quoted in the NewYork Times, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post,and on the Today show, Nightline, and NBC Nightly News. KimberlyAllers (Bayshore, NY) was a writer at Fortune magazine and is afrequent guest speaker at professional development andwomen-oriented seminars. Martha Mendoza (Santa Cruz, CA) is anational writer for the Associated Press. She won a Pulitzer Prizefor investigative reporting.

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"Is the corporate playing field still an obstacle course for peoplewho are "different?" Freada Kapor Klein, one ofAmerica's leading diversity advocates, thinks so. InGiving Notice, she and her coauthors tell you why andwhat to do about it. This refreshing and eye-opening new bookblasts the 'diversity industry' and the'meritocracy myth-makers' for ignoring the dailyindignities and subtle biases that shape careerprospects. Giving Notice tells it like it is and thentells it like it could be, offering every American a vision ofworkplaces that are good for people, companies, and theeconomy." -Rosabeth Moss Kanter, professor, Harvard BusinessSchool and best-selling author of Confidence: How WinningStreaks and Losing Streaks Begin and End "This book will clearly set the new standard for thefield. I think it will be amazing and it should be requiredreading for anyone in the investment business." -David Blood, managing partner, Generation InvestmentManagement and former CEO, Goldman Sachs Asset Management "Freada Kapor Klein provides many insights into themicrodynamics of diversity issues and even more insights intopolicy issues, organizational dynamics, and ways to changepractice. She takes fundamental issues and articulates them in avery concise, engaging, and easy-to-digest way. Her examples areinteresting, often humorous, and always clear." -Stephen Small, chair, African American Studies,University of California, Berkeley
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