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If you're human, you are biased. From this fundamental truth, variety expert Howard Ross explores the biases we each bring within us. A lot of people do not see themselves as biased towards folks of different races or different genders. And yet in virtually all areas of modern life disparities stay. Even in commercial America, which has for the most part embraced the thought of variety as a mainstream idea, patterns of disparity stay rampant. Why? Breakthroughs in the cognitive and neurosciences give some idea why our results seem to be inconsistent with our motives. Bias is natural to the human mind, a success mechanism that is fundamental to our id. And overwhelmingly it is unconscious. Incorporating anecdotes from today's headlines alongside case studies from over 30 years as a nationally visible diversity expert, Ross help listeners know how unconscious bias effects our day-to-day lives and especially our daily work lives. And, he right answers the question: Is there anything we can do about it? by providing types of habits that the listener can take part in to disengage the impact of their own biases. With an extra appendix that includes lessons for controlling turmoil and bias at work, this book offers an invaluable source for a broad audience, from individuals seeking to understand and confront their own biases to human resource professionals and business market leaders determined to produce more bias-conscious organizations in the fact that productivity, personal joy, and social expansion are possible if we first understand the wide-spread and powerful mother nature of the biases we don't realize we have.
