RISING TOGETHER
How We Can Bridge Divides and Create a More Inclusive Workplace
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Published: Feb, 2023
ISBN: 978-0306828300
Participants at leadership conferences often tell Sally:
“Please don’t spend time telling us why developing and retaining a diverse workforce is important. We get it.
“The problem is, we don’t know how to do it.”
Rising Together provides that missing how.
First, Sally identifies the eight common triggers most likely to undermine our ability to collaborate across divides. Not only of gender, but of age, ethnicity, race, sexual identity, experience, and values. These triggers are widespread, yet rarely acknowledged. They include differences in how people view ambition, competence, fairness, and humor. And differences in how we communicate, build networks, manage perceptions, and deal with attraction.
Sally then offers a range of specific practices designed to address these triggers. These simple behavioral tweaks enable us to redirect our emotions. By giving others the benefit of our good will, we create a positive path forward for ourselves. And extend our network of allies.
Rising Together is for readers at every level who recognize that building a broad range of relationships is essential to their advancement.
And it’s indispensable for HR, DEI, and leadership professionals tasked with addressing the resentments that triggers can stir up. Especially in highly diverse workplace cultures.
Sally’s focus is on behaviors—how we act–– rather than bias—how we think. This promises to shift the inclusion conversation in a grounded, real-world way that can bring people together.
Praise for
Rising Together
“I personally used key insights from How Women Rise when I was CEO of Best Buy to help foster greater diversity at the company. Now Sally has done it again. Rising Together, Sally gives us an indispensable guide to how we can change our behaviors to help create more inclusive environments where everyone can rise. A must read for every leader.”
— Hubert Joly, senior lecturer Harvard Business School, former Best Buy CEO, author The Heart of Business
“What so often gets left out of diversity conversations is the how. By focusing on inclusive behaviors, Sally Helgesen provides it. Rising Together is a much-needed guide for to moving us from awareness to action.”
— Arianna Huffington, founder and CEO of Thrive
“Rising Together is the perfect guide to building equitable, safe, and diverse workspaces today. In her signature conversational voice, Sally helps us gain greater awareness of the triggers and the habits that hold us back so we can build relationships that can help us all rise. A must-read for veterans and newcomers in business!”
— Sanyin Siang, CEO Coach, Thinkers50 Top Management Thinker, and author, The Launch Book
“Sally Helgesen has been highly influential in my career. When I first started on Wall Street, her books The Female Advantage and The Web of Inclusion were revelatory. How Women Rise and Rising Together are equally so. Elegant, enlightened, powerful, and sage.”
— Whitney Johnson, Top #10 Management Thinker and author, Disrupt Yourself and Smart Growth
“Sally Helgesen is betting that the future of inclusive leadership lies in giving one another the benefit of the doubt in order to focus on behaviors that foster solidarity rather than division. In Rising Together, she lays out the how of inclusive practice, tying it to engagement, satisfaction and performance.”
— Keith Ferrazzi, author, Connecting in the New World of Work, Never Eat Lunch Alone