The Inclusion Dividend: Why Investing in Diversity & Inclusion Pays Off

As a leader, I find that my ability to manage, support and work with people depends less on my understanding of them and more on my understanding of myself, my perceptions, my prejudices and my projections. This book is an essential tool for anyone working with humans in any field. The beginning of change is awareness. Many of us wander around inside our egos rather than standing deeper, in that place beyond ego, in which we can observe our ego (and our behaviors which result from it) so that we are living, working and communicating from a deeper, more authentic place. This, and only this way of living will inspire and create meaningful connection which is, in turn essential for effective work and communication. This book raises awareness to the realities of conscious and subconscious prejudices which get in the way of working relationships like a virus gets in the way of a computer's functioning. I will be buying this book for every staff member over whom I have any oversight and any colleague with whom I work, so that we can work more effectively and each be the peace in the world for which we all so long.

Highly informative and well-presented. Would recommend to anyone unfamiliar with the topic.

I'm quite familiar with Diversity and wanted to bring myself more update with current issues around leveraging diversity--taking people from race/gender/age representation, recruiting talent of all ages and taking diversity to new levels of doing business in a multi-cultural climate. While I didn't find a lot of new ideas, it reinforced my experience with implementing diversity initiatives--and behaviors--at several corporations. I was working recently with a client I could tell didn't fully embrace diversity. I recommended this book to them.

You can get everything out of most business books in the first couple of chapters, but this book gives you your money's worth. The Inclusion Dividend provides a lot of good solid knowledge throughout on inclusion in the workplace and how it can really make your company competitive. It was an accessible read for a non-diversity and inclusion expert like myself. The examples were spot on. It was almost like they were looking into my company. Well done.

Donovan and Kaplan have created a valuable resource for understanding the purpose and value of leading diversity. Most important they have taken key diversity concepts and put it in understandable examples and questions we can relate to. This reading can help business and public leaders fully grasp the importance of asking themselves some tough questions and potentially opening themselves up more to talk more freely about differences and engage in conversations.

Read the first few chapters love it so far. Wanted to write this review before i forget about it. Being a minority myself, i have faced many of the challenges described in this book. When the author said diversity is a high risk/high reward initiative; that instantly clicked with me. I can see how homogeneous teams can be efficient, but diverse teams can break barriers and take companies to new heights. Also the author makes a strong case for the 'inclusion' aspect that goes hand in hand with diversity and is ignored by many executives who think they are done once they hire a minority individual.

Our company gave out this book at a recent corporate conference on unconscious bias. Started first with their chapter on this subject and liked it so much I started from the beginning. Great info from top to bottom and not preachy like other books on this subject.

This book is another attempt to capitalize on the growing DEI trend. The authors make several claims that are not well supported and are based on dubious studies. Scant citations are provided for the myriad of claims made in the book. The claims that are cited, often lack scientific rigor or are based off of questionable statistical assumptions. Nearly all points made are based on conjecture or inference without exploring problem space in a meaningful way. Folks, this book was written so the authors can get paid speaking arrangements. If you are looking for something well researched and thought provoking, this is not it.