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Leader Lab Reports
Leader Lab Reports focus on the specific challenges and opportunities
that white men encounter as they seek to lead confidently on
diversity. There are sixteen Lab Reports in an easy-to-study format
of 15-30 pages.
Diversity For White Men Who Lead: The Business Case,
The Career Advantage
Simply put, why is diversity important? For white men, this report explores diversity's five business trends and seven business motives, along with thirteen answers to the question "What's in diversity for me?"
Diversity's ROI: The Eight-Cell Scorecard
A straightforward method for measuring the return on investing in diversity, by organizing metrics on character and performance at four levels: individual, team, business unit, and enterprise.
What's This About? Diversity Defined, For White Men Who Lead
Some people doubt our ability to "get it." But why should we want to? This report defines human differences as the qualities that distinguish us from one another, identifies twenty dimensions of diversity, and proposes use of the Fundamental Filter, which teaches that "Each one of us is like all others, like some others, like no other."
Ten Key Concepts for White Men Who Lead Among Black Colleagues and Customers
The most important ideas to understand and apply when you lead for a living, including generalizations vs. stereotypes, due regard, self-monitoring, focusing on joint achievement going forward, coaching for performance improvement, avoiding litigation, and winning and serving black customers.
The Art of Talking Effectively as a White Man Who Leads
Move people ahead by speaking with respect while saying what needs to be said. This report looks at avoiding words (like the "n-word") that wound, take cultural differences into account when communicating, balancing free speech and respectful talk, and influencing through courteous nonverbals.
Own Your Whiteness. Lead on Diversity.
A detailed consideration of personal response-ability among white men, through an intentional engagement with our self-evident racial identity, an evaluation of what differences in race and ethnicity have meant historically, and the choices we can make to lead with race and gender in mind while we hold diversity accountable for adding measurable value.
Transform the Way You Lead on Diversity
Review this tested method to track progress in learning and leading on diversity. Examples and a case study explicate these five stages, which include Pre-Awareness, Interest and Necessity, Careful Skill Progress, Adventurous Competence, and Relative Expertise. Use the approach to structure your diversity learning.
Build Trust as a White Man Who Leads
Trust is defined as the making and keeping of promises, and it is precious among diverse colleagues and customers because it cannot be manufactured, only earned. This report explores how a white male leader can deliver on six key promises, while renouncing distrust by breaking promises. A tool for assessing team trust is included.
The Advantage Complex Among White Men Who Lead
This controversial document talks straight, by equipping white men to lead by unpacking our power, appraising our privilege, disciplining our views of preference and affirmative action, and evaluating our opportunities with utter honesty. A must-read, sure to provoke healthy conversation, in our own minds and hearts, and with colleagues who care to walk alongside.
Be a Man, Be a Friend: Leading on Diversity From the Masculine Side
Decide what it means to lead as a good and connective man, by understanding our normativity, by hunting through the lessons of our boyhood, growing strong and diverse friendships, and raising white boys right. This is personal; it's about living in and leading on diversity from the masculine side.
Cultures @ Work: When White Men Lead with Group Identity in Mind
When we clarify what's cultural, we inform ourselves about the challenges and strengths of black culture, we grow the diverse culture of white male managers, and we handle resistance to diversity from fellow white people. Lead by taking into account the ways that people are influenced (but not determined)by group identity.
The Heart of Diversity Work: Manage Emotions When You Lead as a White Man
Emotional intelligence is required of white men who seek to lead confidently on diversity. This report is the only resource that unflinchingly walks you through this emotional territory: deal with denial, face the fear, get past the guilt, shed the shame, metabolize anger constructively, redirect excuses and whining, engage change and risk, accept your losses, and celebrate the courage of your convictions.
Leading Through Race-Related Situations as a White Man
When race-related circumstances are on the table, we will not run or hide. We will lead. Here's how: uncover and reframe racist assumptions, validate but do not equate your experience with a black person's, respond to interracial crosscurrents with intellect and care, be prepared to act in race-related situations, and do what's right in "only one" situations.
Individualize How You Lead as a White Man
People choose to follow their leaders one at a time, so we have a deep stake in evoking each individuals' unique contribution. We lead by evoking reciprocity through using The 55% Rule, which builds healthy performance boundaries, and by individualizing the way we manage, day to day. A pragmatic guide to results.
Recruit and Equip Black Employees As a White Man Who Leads
Seven ways to win, grow and keep diverse (and all) talent; select diverse employees, motivate with differences in view, coach improvement, mentor, recognize and reward, and prepare and promote top performers.
Develop a Diverse Team As a White Man Who Leads
Build a high-impact team that follows you and leads on its own. Here's how: prevent inequity, make decisions inclusively, resolve conflict, ensure that diversity training drives success, and when necessary, terminate with equity.
Effective, diverse teams produce superior results.
Websites for White Men Who Lead
Catalyst
Catalyst is a powerful research and education non-profit that advocates for women in the workplace and beyond.
www.catalyst.org
The Center for Creative Leadership
CCL is one of the top leadership development organizations in the world, with substantive programs and publications.
www.ccl.org
DiversityInc
A resource-rich site for leaders committed to diversity; founded and managed by two white guys, Luke Visconti and Foulis Peacock.
www.diversityinc.com
Employment Learning Innovations
Excellent training on leading within the law, including Civil Treatment for Managers.
www.eliinc.com
Nancy D. Solomon
Nancy is one of America's top experts on leading from the inside out, with a specialty in equipping women in leadership.
www.nancydsolomon.com
Salter McNeil & Associates
Brenda Salter-McNeil and her colleagues speak and train on racial reconciliation, in churches, communities, and businesses.
www.saltermcneil.com
Southern Poverty Law Center
Morris Dees and his organization have emerged as the foremost foes to white supremacist outfits in America; support this powerful voice.
www.splcenter.org
Stuff White People Like
Very funny, and also a case study on the line between generalizing and stereotyping! There is also a book by the same name.
www.stuffwhitepeoplelike.com
White Men as Full Diversity Partners
This Portland-based network is unusually seasoned at training for white men and their diverse colleagues.
www.wmfdp.com
White Sand Consultants, Inc
Claudia White, PhD, leads this consulting and training group that focuses on customer service and employee engagement.
whitesandconsultants.com
Great Books & Films for White Men Who Lead
Read one of these books or watch one of these films each month. Discuss and apply what you learn. In four years, you will have a remarkable library and a powerful skill set with diversity!
Books
The Best of the Great
The Accidental Asian
by Eric Liu. New York: Random House, 1998
A first-rate memoir detailing the costs of assimilation, the quest for racelessness, and the ambivalence of the immigration experience; brilliant, provocative. Order -->
Afraid of the Dark: What Whites and Blacks Need to Know About Each Other
by Jim Myers. Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 2000
This book digs into the specific ways white and black people often differ in their views of history, culture, language, the media, sports; and what we can do. Order -->
By the Color of Our Skin: The Illusion of Integration and the Reality of Race
by Leonard Steinhorn and Barbara Diggs-Brown. New York: Dutton, 1999
A brilliantly argued study of the ways black and white Americans live; the fictions, frustrations and choices that influence race relations today. Order -->
The Color of Wealth: The Story Behind the U.S. Racial Wealth Divide
by Meizhu Lui, Barbara Robles, Betsy Leondar-Wright, Rose Brewer, and Rebecca
Adamson.
New York: The New Press, 2006
An excellent overview of the wealth divide across major ethnic groups; research that shows the economic progress we can still achieve in the United States. Order -->
The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America
by Shelby Steele, New York: St. Martin"s Press, 1990
This book challenges the "received wisdom" on race; cogent, controversial, and personal, it argues for recognition of the amazing progress on race in America. Order -->
Cracking the Corporate Code:
The Revealing Success Stories of 32 African-American Executives
by Price M. Cobbs and Judith L. Turnock, New York: AMACOM, 2003
A work of unusual insight and practicality, this book weaves together the leadership lessons of black executives in America"s most noteworthy businesses. Order -->
Generations at Work:
Managing the Clash of Veterans, Boomers, Xers, and Nexters in
Your Workplace
by Ron Zemke, Claire Raines, and Bob Fillipczak, New York: AMACOM,
2000
Fresh insights and practical solutions for handling the differences and managing the conflicts and opportunities between four generations in the workplace. Order -->
The G Quotient:
Why Gay Executives Are Excelling as Leaders & What Every
Manager Needs to Know
by Kirk Snyder, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2006
From a five-year study, seven leadership principles common to gay executives that will boost employee engagement and job satisfaction for all managers. Order -->
How Race Is Lived in America, by Correspondents of the New York Times
Times Books: New York, 2001
Profiles of diverse people tell the story of race relations across the nation, in everyday interactions, from a year of journalism; great story-telling. Order -->
It's the Little Things: Everyday Interactions That Anger, Annoy and Divide the Races
by Lena Williams. New York: Harcourt, 2000
A top handbook on race relations in America; divisions are explored with clarity, honest mistakes are identified, and we are confronted and entertained. Order -->
Leading in Black and White: Working Across the Racial Divide in Corporate America
by Ancella B. Livers and Keith A. Carver, San Francisco:
Jossey-Bass and the Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro, 2003
A look at experience of a thousand-plus African American managers in business, education and government; their challenges; recommendations for white leaders. Order -->
Marketing to Hispanics
by Terry Soto, Chicago: Kaplan Publishing, 2006
How to assess opportunity in the Hispanic market, prepare to succeed across cultural lines, and avoid mistakes; with case studies from competitive companies. Order -->
Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence
by Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, and Annie McKee, Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2002
Focuses on emotional clarity and depth as a vital tool for leadership, where "resonant leaders" connect through knowledge, skill, empathy and self-awareness. Order -->
Stuff White People Like: The Definitive Guide to the Unique Taste of Millions
by Christian Lander, New York: Random House, 2008
Gotta have a sense of humor as a white guy, and this book helps; silly, stereotypes us like mad; still thought-provoking about our culture; hilarious. Order -->
Talking From 9 to 5: How Women's and Men's Conversational Styles
Affect Who Gets
Heard, Who Gets Credit, and What Gets Done at Work
by Deborah Tannen, New York:
William Morrow Company, 1994
A classic treatise on language barriers and practices at the office; get a grip on verbal games and miscommunication; move ahead across the gender lines. Order -->
12: The Elements of Great Managing
by Rodd Wagner and James Harter, New York: Gallup Press, 2006
Based on the largest database of interviews with managers ever compiled; identifies the 12 practices every leader can use to engage all employees. Order -->
Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal
by Andrew Hacker, New York: Scribner, 2003
A well-documented explanation of racism"s reality, as it is reflected in family life, education, income and employment; constructive and controversial. Order -->
Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice
by Paul Kivel. Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers, 2002
An excellent exploration of the underlying causes of racism, and supportive ideas for fighting racism; a very practical and candid contribution. Order -->
What's Black About It?
Insights to Increase Your Share of the Changing African American Market
by Pepper Miller and Herb Kemp, Ithaca, NY: Paramount Market
Publishing, 2006
How to understand, research and reach the growing African American segment; targeting black consumers through culturally-savvy marketing. Order -->
White Guilt:
How Black and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights
Era
by Shelby Steele, New York: Harper Perennial, 2006
Argues for a new culture of personal responsibility, and against a new age of white guilt that followed white supremacy; an articulate, counter-intuitive case. Order -->
Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race
by Matthew Frye Jacobson, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998
A fascinating review of how white identity evolved in America; immigration and racial formation in culture, history and politics; eye-opening. Order -->
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century
by Thomas Friedman, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005
Bestselling book to chronicle the progress of globalization, in which commerce, competition and technology level the playing field; see chapters one and six. Order -->
The Rest of the Great
Being a Black Man: At the Corner of Progress and Peril
by Correspondents of the Washington Post, New York: Public Affairs, 2007
A fascinating take on the diversity among black American men, based on articles and interviews looking at the successes they enjoy and the sorrows they face. Order -->
Black Wealth/White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality
by Melvin L. Oliver and Thomas M. Shapiro, New York: Routledge, 2006
A substantive exploration of wealth, race and inequality, this updated classic quantifies the economic disparities between black and white people. Order -->
Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High
by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzer,
New York: McGraw
Hill, 2002
An amazingly useful method for handling conversations when stakes and emotions run high, and there is conflict; makes it safe to talk about hard things. Order -->
The Diversity Scorecard:
Evaluating the Impact of Diversity on Organizational
Performance
by Edward E. Hubbard, New York: Elsevier, Butterworth, Heinemann,
2004
This approach lasers in on measuring the contribution of diversity efforts, and equips leaders across the organization with a common ROI language on metrics. Order -->
GenderSell: How to Sell to the Opposite Sex
by Judith C. Tingley and Lee E. Robert New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999
A unique approach that hones in on "the single greatest barrier to effective sales - selling to the opposite sex"; a very practical resource for sales skill. Order -->
The Heart of Racial Justice: How Soul Change Leads to Social Change
by Brenda Salter McNeil and Rick Richardson. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press,
2004
A solution to the racial divide in the Church, focusing on internal change an community transformation; the practical side of reconciliation for Christians. Order -->
Leadership and the Sexes: Using Gender Science to Create Success in Business
by Michael Gurian, with Barbara Annis San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2008
Women and men bring their brains to work with them, and this fascinating book analyzes how lead with a new degree of "gender intelligence." Order -->
On the Rez
by Ian Frazier, New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2000
A beautiful, touching book on the modern-day Oglala Sioux; find the story of SuAnne Big Crow, and her 1988 b-ball game in Lead, South Dakota, at age 14. Order -->
Race Manners in the 21st Century:
Navigating the Minefield Between Black and White Americans in an Age of Fear
by Bruce Jacobs. New York: Arcade Publishing, 2006
Straight-talk on our daily actions and reactions across the racial divide; a "candid assessment of, and guide to improving, race relations." Order -->
Tribes:
How Race, Religion and Identity Determine Success in the New Global Economy
by Joel Kotkin, New York: Random House, 1992
An original and still-relevant analysis of the ways that dispersed ethnic groups (e.g. British, Chinese, Jews) win in international business. Order -->
White Men Challenging Racism: 35 Personal Stories
by Cooper Thompson, Emmett Schaefer, and Harry Brod, Durham, NC; Duke University Press, 2003
Intriguing profiles of white men who have lived and led the fight against racism; oral history format, the men vary in age 28 — 68; widens the leadership horizon. Order -->
Films
Amistad
Theatrical release directed by Steven Spielberg: Dreamworks Pictures, 1999
A stark depiction of a true story, in which enslaved Africans take over the slave ship, and are recaptured and tried for murder; a story of the fight for freedom. Order -->
A Time to Kill
Theatrical release directed by Joel Schumacher: Warner Brothers, 1996
This serious, painful drama explores issues of race, gender, rape, and murder in a small Mississippi town; a tough film that faces hard questions; a man"s movie. Order -->
The Color of Fear
Educational video from filmmaker Lee Mun Wah:
available from stirfryseminars.com,
510- 204-8840, California
A powerful set of conversations among men of varying ethnicities, this video and the accompanying training is honest, pragmatic, and provocative. Order -->
Open Range
Theatrical release directed by Kevin Costner: Touchstone Pictures, 2004
A powerful portrayal of integrity and honor, respect and intimacy among men and women under stress. See the director"s commentary as a model for leading. Order -->
Pleasantville
Theatrical release directed by Gary Ross: New Line Productions, 1998
A light-hearted yet poignant time travel tale, with a black and white TV metaphor that explores us all as people of color (and the wonder of color itself). Order -->
An Unlikely Friendship
Educational video produced by Diane Bloom:
available from dianebloom.com,
919-929-8941, North Carolina
A remarkable video featuring an unexpected friendship between C. P. Ellis, a former leader of the Ku Klux Klan, and civil rights activist Ann Atwater. Order -->
