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The Canary Code
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The Canary Code

by Ludmila N. Praslova
May 2024
Intermediate to advanced
352 pages
10h 7m
English
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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CHAPTER THIRTEEN LEADERSHIP PRACTICES

Leading While Stigmatized

Image NEURODIVERSITY NARRATIVES

ON ARMOR AND VULNERABILITY

How do you lead in a world where 50 percent of managers don’t even want to hire people like you?1 How do you lead in a world that stereotypes, misunderstands, and even hates you?

This is the question Jerry Gidner, a long-time US federal executive, writer, and Tourette Syndrome inclusion leader, had to wrestle with, as he shared with me:2

I have experienced the pity, the stigma, the hushed whispers, the condescending attitudes, the daily insults—some large, some ...

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ISBN: 9781523005864