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Diversity Beyond Lip Service
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Diversity Beyond Lip Service

by La'Wana Harris
May 2019
Intermediate to advanced
192 pages
3h 41m
English
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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INTRODUCTION

Diversity and InclusionStarts from Within

♦  We’ve been talking about diversity and inclusion for decades.

♦  Why aren’t we further along?

♦  What’s really going on?

This book is written for the power construct within your organization (let’s face it, mostly white men).

As a woman of color, I don’t know what it feels like to be at the top of the power structure and look to the left and right and see only people who look like me. I also don’t know what it feels like to be a member of the majority who is bombarded with messages, perhaps for the first time in a decades-long career, stating that my utopia is really an oasis that is no ...

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ISBN: 9781523098712