In this follow-up to her international bestseller How Women Rise,
Sally Helgesen draws on three decades of work with executives and
aspiring leaders around the world to offer practical ways to build more
inclusive relationships, teams, and workplaces.
Participants at leadership conferences often tell Sally, "Please don't
spend your time telling us why developing and retaining a diverse
workforce is important. We get it. The problem is, we don't know how
to do it." Rising Together provides that missing how in full detail
by identifying both what holds us back and specific tactics that can
help us move forward.
First, Sally identifies the eight common triggers most likely to
undermine our ability to collaborate across divides--not only of gender,
but also of age, ethnicity, race, sexuality, and life experience. These
triggers are widespread, yet rarely acknowledged. They include
differences in how people from different backgrounds view ambition,
competence, perceptions, fairness, communication, networks, attraction,
and humor.
Sally then offers specific practices designed to address these triggers:
simple behavioral tweaks that we can use on a daily basis; a method for
informally enlisting allies to hold us to account; and a means for
cultivating and disseminating the dynamic power of we.
Rising Together is for readers at every stage and level in their
careers who recognize that building a broad range of relationships is
essential to their advancement, now and in the future. This book also
serves as an indispensable guide for HR, diversity, and leadership
professionals tasked with addressing the misunderstandings, resentments,
and derailments caused by the eight triggers. Sally's focus on
behaviors--how we act--rather than bias--how we think--promises to
redirect the inclusion conversation in a grounded, real-world way that
brings us together.
