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The Leader's Guide to Unconscious Bias
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The Leader's Guide to Unconscious Bias

How to Reframe Bias, Cultivate Connection, and Create High-Performing Teams

Pamela Fuller, Anne Chow and Mark Murphy
Simon & Schuster, 2020

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Editorial Rating

9

Qualities

  • Applicable
  • Well Structured
  • Concrete Examples

Recommendation

Imagine a help-wanted advertisement specifying that candidates must be right-handed, brown-haired and more than six feet tall. According to authors Pamela Fuller, Anne Chow and Mark Murphy, preferences like these actually do play a significant role in your judgments. Because biases are unconscious, you won’t realize you’re making hiring decisions based on assumptions that may be irrelevant, unfair or untrue. The authors explain how to become aware of your biases and then outline strategies for circumventing them.

Take-Aways

  • Unconscious bias in the workplace is a performance issue.
  • Everyone has biases.
  • Stay alert for “bias traps” that lead to biased thinking.

About the Authors

Pamela Fuller is FrankinCovey’s “chief thought leader on inclusion and bias.” Anne Chow is the CEO of AT&T Business. Mark Murphy is a FranklinCovey senior consultant.

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    R. W. 2 years ago
    We have to be aware of the way we think and make assumptions. Being alerted is the first step.
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    B. C. 3 years ago
    Thoughtful work addresses the reality that biases, like many other things, have both an up and downside, AND both need to be examined in order to produce the most effective outcomes.