World-renowned experts on gender intelligence Barbara Annis and Keith Merron suggest it’s time to move beyond arguments based on politics and fairness, building an economic business case for gender diversity in the workplace.
Despite forty years of laws, quotas, diversity training, and legal expenses aimed toward equalizing pay, opportunities, and working conditions between the sexes, the glass ceiling remains firmly intact. For too long, companies have played the “numbers game”—attempting to tackle gender imbalance by forcing affirmative action policies and numeric standards on organizations to increase the representation of women in management. Yet, these efforts have rarely been sustained.
In this groundbreaking comprehensive analysis, based on more than twenty-five years of in-depth surveys involving 100,000 men and women across dozens of Fortune 500 companies, Barbara Annis and Keith Merron provide a deeper understanding of the multiplicity of forces that have combined to create and perpetuate gender inequality. Gender Intelligence exposes common false assumptions that prevent men and women from successfully performing together at work—myths exacerbated by worn-out theories of gender blindness and sameness thinking. It show how a small but growing number of courageous, leading-edge companies have broken through the barriers to successfully advance women, making the remarkable transformation from compliance to choice—from pressure to preference—and show how it can be done in any business.
Gender Intelligence features 17 illustrations.

Gender Intelligence: Breakthrough Strategies for Increasing Diversity and Improving Your Bottom Line

Business & Money

Annis, Barbara

Merron, Keith

Business Culture

Harper Business

Business Leaders Praise Riding the Wave "Keith Merron has created a way of thinking about organizations that will help managers, at all levels, anticipate and effectively handle the myriad challenges with which corporations must deal!" Rebecca Smith, President RebL Systems "Riding The Wave is timely and relevant for the business leader facing the complex challenge of change. And, in today’s world, that means each and every leader!" "Throughout the world of business, the ability to respond thoughtfully to change is becoming the hallmark of sustainable successful performance, I believe Riding The Wave helps today’s leaders understand what is needed from them as they face and attempt to handle the challenge of increased complexity and rate of change." T. Coleman Andrews III, CEO and President WorldCorp "Finally, a solid, practical approach to high-level organizational improvement that any manager can use!" Tim Fuller Fuller Associates

Riding the Wave: Designing Your Organization's Architecture for Enduring Success

Processes & Infrastructure

wiley

Our scripts, our values, and our beliefs about ourselves come from our surroundings. One cannot really change this script without first recognizing at a very personal level where it came from (and continues to come from) and why there are so many internal and external pressures to conform to it. In this book we delve into these issues in depth. One thing worth pointing out here, though, is that this description applies to everyone. There are no "masterminds" controlling us; in other words, there's really no "us versus them" involved here. In a sense, everyone is both "victim" and "perpetrator" (or at least appears to take on these roles). We create the scripts for others, just as others create our scripts, and most of the time we are unaware of our role in this, just as we are unaware of the extent to which our culture has molded us. In any case, there is no blame-just the need to understand and grow beyond our situation. This book provides insights and activities to support our learning.

Inner Freedom

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Integral Publishers

Most consultants are content to solve problems. Extraordinary consultants alter the culture of the client organization itself, changing the way the organization operates. Keith Merron shows that the most powerful tool for making a real difference is the consultant's inner stance - the attitudes, assumptions, beliefs, goals, and strategies that underlie the consulting practice. In other words, it is the inner qualities of the consultant that differentiate a great consultant from the rest of the pack. Consulting Mastery explores the deep inner shift required to become an extraordinary consultant. Through vivid examples, Merron contrasts the goals, strategies, and tactics used by most consultants with those used by masterful consultants to reveal the qualities and characteristics that will help you make the biggest difference with your clients. If you yearn to have a bigger impact on your client organizations, or even on the world as a whole, Consulting Mastery shows how to transform yourself from a problem solver to an empowering partner. Following a natural flow of learning, it details the conceptual foundation of consulting mastery, provides a vision of mastery in action, and outlines a clear path to attaining mastery in oneself.

Consulting Mastery: How the Best Make the Biggest Difference

Reference

ReadHowYouWant

This is not just another book telling consultants how to advise their clients on solving specific problems—increasing sales, finding the best IT system, reducing turnover, and so on. Consulting Mastery teaches consultants how to master the real challenge of working with organizations: effecting actual change. It examines how to help clients help themselves to achieve higher levels of performance. Drawing on interviews with fourteen master consultants and ten executives in client organizations, Merron explores how consultants can profoundly impact the way organizations operate. Whether you are a seasoned consultant or just starting out, Consulting Mastery will inspire you to adopt goals , strategies, and the mindset that will help you make a real difference in your work and in your client organizations.

Industries

Berrett-Koehler Publishers

The world of coaching has erupted the past 20 years to become a viable and much needed profession, with hundreds of books written that teach people how to become good coaches. Most of these focus on the essentials of coaching - good listening, good inquiry, and good coaching practices. They focus on how to give advice, challenge a client, and generate business. As the coaching profession matures, so too does the sophistication of its clients. Now the people buying its services are more discerning, and the people offering must respond to the need. The Art of Transformation is such a book. It is the kind of book that comes every so often that truly rattles the cages of our understanding of what it means to be human and how to inspire and guide others to their greatest potential.At the core of the book is an exploration of the nature of personal paradigms – what causes them to emerge, get reinforced, and then solidify. The aim of this exploration is to teach a process and a set of principles that help any coach seeking to inspire fundamental and sustainable shifts in the way their clients engage in the world. Each chapter, building on the prior ones, takes the reader on a powerful journey of transformation that, in the end, helps them help their clients dislodge themselves from the beliefs, assumptions and strategies that heretofore have shaped and limited them. As part of that journey, the book inspires readers to question their assumptions about what “coaching” truly is, and to explore an alternative that bears little resemblance to what we currently call “help.” Going beyond yet incorporating notions about “guidance” or “witnessing,” or “being a sounding board,” The Art of Transformational Coaching is about “busting paradigms.” In the end, the book fundamentally changes our understanding of personal problems and their solutions. As a result of reading the book and following its guidance, the reader becomes a powerful agent of transformation for others.

The Art of Transformational Coaching: A Guidebook For Helping Others Heal and Transform

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Tonic Books

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