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Moving beyond mere tolerance, us-versus-them is the costly mind-set where organizations, areas, and whole nations too often find themselves trapped. Actually, recognizing difference as an optimistic force may bring amazing value to even the most diverse organizations. In Us Plus Them, leadership scholar Todd Pittinsky presents a groundbreaking new knowledge of variety that:

• Debunks the assumption that wherever there is difference you will see inherent anxiety and animosity
• Issues the effectiveness of our standard attempts to fight prejudice and battle hate inside our institutions and workplaces, our civic and religious lives
• Reveals how we benefit from the blending of different ethnic, racial, national, interpersonal, and religious categories in a globalized world

Through a variety of examples - from Maine and Michigan to Rwanda and Bhutan, and from small-town classrooms to corporate boardrooms - Pittinsky opens our eyes to misunderstood yet useful aspects of us-and-them relationships, including lots of the neglected positive sizes of difference. He offers a bold new evaluation of the favorite and scientific approaches to the issue, showing that it's time to go beyond mere tolerance to create communities where the two edges of the us-and-them equation engage each other because they both want to. Much as Martin Seligman and positive mindset have shifted the focus from mental health issues to mental healthiness, this audiobook shifts our mind-set to variety as an optimistic push. Understanding the knowledge and practical use of this energy can help us build the institutions, neighborhoods, companies, and nations we want, and not steer clear of the ugliest problems of days gone by. Pittinsky shows us that our great diversity experiment hasn't failed - it hasn't even started.