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The Loudest Duck

Moving Beyond Diversity while Embracing Differences to Achieve Success at Work

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The Loudest Duck

By: Laura A Liswood
Narrated by: Lisa Rothe
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Written in the accessible style of Seth Godin and Spencer Johnson, The Loudest Duck is a business fable which offers listeners an alternate view of diversity through the use of practical stories and cultural anecdotes.

It will explain, for instance, how a culture such as China teaches its children, "The loudest duck gets shot," a viewpoint that gets carried into adulthood, while many Americans are taught the opposite idiomatic lesson: "The squeaky wheel gets the grease."

What you find as a result are two distinct ways of doing business, neither one being necessarily the right way or even the better way. Yet by understanding the viewpoints from which others see the world, listeners can understand how better to work with them.

The Loudest Duck is a book for managers and executives faced with the productivity and leadership challenges of a heterogeneous, multicultural workplace. It's a book for anyone working his or her way up the ladder in this new corporate world order. It's a book for anyone who belongs to a non-dominant group, be it women, people of color, short people, or employees who don't play golf but whose bosses do.

©2009 Laura A. Liswood (P)2009 Gildan Media Management Management & Leadership Workplace & Organisational Behavior Workplace Culture Business Leadership
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Eye opening, insightful, and in tune with important workplace topics. It should reccomended to managers or anyone apsiring to lead others.

Everyone in the workplace should read this

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The Noah’s Ark metaphor works so well. It illustrates how by trying to save “every kind” (in an oversimplified and ostensible way) but not creating the right environment may be as an easy route to deprivation of opportunity and extinction. Of course, the book shows what to do instead.

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