Synopses & Reviews
What If? delivers a highly creative and innovative new way to explore the issues that dominate today's multicultural, multiethnic workplace. To the twenty-five witty yet inspiring stories in this collection, Steve Long-Nguyen Robbins has added tips and suggestions for putting these key learnings into action. Combined, What If? offers a powerful lens into the human experience.
Synopsis
Competitive advantage in business today is being defined by the winners and losers in the war for talent: hiring and retaining the best and the brightest are what market leadership is all about. What If? delivers a highly creative and innovative new way to explore the issues that dominate today's multicultural, multiethnic workplace. To the 25 witty yet inspiring stories in this collection, Robbins has added tips and suggestions for putting these key learnings into action, and questions and an exercise at the end of each chapter to help readers further explore each topic. Combined, What If? offers a powerful lens into the human experience.
Synopsis
When Steve Long-Nguyen Robbins was growing up, his mother routinely told him, -Long, you walk on a path cleared by others, so it is your responsibility to clear the path for others.- Her insightful guidance and self-sacrificing example are the forces that drive Robbins's corporate work around diversity and inclusion today.
His goal is unwavering: to clear the path for others and recruit more -path makers- --to honor his mother and to make a better world for everyone. In What If?, Robbins provides twenty-six inspiring, lively, and sometimes deeply personal stories illustrating diversity and inclusion concepts. He offers insight and practical advice on how to reconcile unity with diversity and reframe our organizations for competitive advanges. He adds tips and suggestions for putting keylearning into action in your organization, ending each chapter with questions, an activity, and an assignment to inspire you to be more open-minded and inclusive and to discover how the ideas presented in the book might apply to your daily life at work and at home.
Synopsis
Twenty-six inspiring, lively, and personal stories that illustrate concepts of diversity and inclusion, as well as invite discussion among groups.