Laura A. Liswood - The Elephant and the Mouse

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2 Title Page The Elephant and the Mouse

3 Copyright

4 Dedication

5 Acknowledgments

6 Introduction THE DIVERSITY OF DIVERSITY NOTES

7 Chapter 1: Hard TruthsWHAT 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

8 Chapter 2: The Elephant and the Mouse MEN AND WOMEN: LIVING IN TWO DIFFERENT WORLDS? OUR WINDOWS TO THE WORLD NOTES

9 Chapter 3: Beyond the Business Case for Diversity: Rewards and Risks REWARDS RISKS NOTES

10 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

11 Chapter 5: What You Can Do Easily IT IS NOT THE NORM ASKING FOR A PROMOTION VERSUS LOOKING AGGRESSIVE NOTES

12 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

13 Chapter 7: The Elephant and Mouse Inclusive Leader NOTES

14 Bibliography

15 About the Author

16 Index

17 End User License Agreement

1 Cover

2 Table of Contents

3 Title Page The Elephant and the Mouse

4 Copyright

5 Dedication

6 Acknowledgments

7 Introduction

8 Begin Reading

9 Bibliography

10 About the Author

11 Index

12 End User License Agreement

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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.

Achieving true diversity, equity, and inclusion is an ongoing journey and educating ourselves is an important step. The insights in this book were revelatory to me as a friend, as a colleague, and as a leader but most importantly, as a human being. No matter who you are or where you are starting from, The Elephant and the Mouse contains lessons for everyone. It asks you to question yourself and provides a framework you can apply to your own life to actively shape change and transform the communities you are a part of. The Elephant and the Mouse illuminates the path forward to real and lasting change and I recommend it for everyone.”

—Martine Ferland,President and CEO, Mercer

“If Laura Liswood ran the world, it would be a fairer, more inclusive place. In this wise book, she highlights that many of our problems with diversity stem not from differences in demography but from differences in power. Her analysis of dominant and non‐dominant groups offers valuable tools to have more productive conversations and drive more meaningful progress.”

—Adam Grant,#1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and host of the TED podcast WorkLife

“ The Elephant and Mouse is a must‐read for anyone committed to making their workplace or their community truly inclusive. The Loudest Duck synthesized all the diversity research and gave us a framework for how to understand our challenges to diversity and inclusion and was a game changer in our thinking. The Elephant and Mouse takes that to the next level in such an amazing way … to elevate our thinking in the way that only Laura can! Laura gives us a powerfully new framework to break through traditional approaches to social inclusion so that we can take our diversity efforts to the next level. Laura has that one‐of‐a‐kind mind that shows us where we are—why we might be stuck—and gives us a practical framework to turn our good intentions into meaningful change and real impact.”

—Beth Brooke,former Vice‐Chair, EY

“Laura has done it again!

As the former Deputy Director for Diversity and Inclusion during the Obama Administration, we used Laura to train the entirety of Senior Executive Service leaders throughout the federal workspace based on her groundbreaking and hugely successful book, The Loudest Duck: Moving Beyond Diversity While Embracing Differences to Achieve Success at Work .

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