Rising Together

In this follow-up to her international bestseller How Women Rise, Sally
Helgesen draws on three decades of work with executives and aspiring leaders
around the world to offer practical ways to build more inclusive
relationships, teams, and workplaces.

Participants at leadership conferences often tell Sally, "Please don't spend
your 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 in full detail by identifying both what
holds us back and specific tactics that can help us move forward.

First, Sally identifies the eight common triggers most likely to undermine our
ability to collaborate across divides--not only of gender, but also of age,
ethnicity, race, sexuality, and life experience. These triggers are
widespread, yet rarely acknowledged. They include differences in how people
from different backgrounds view ambition, competence, perceptions, fairness,
communication, networks, attraction, and humor.

Sally then offers specific practices designed to address these triggers:
simple behavioral tweaks that we can use on a daily basis; a method for
informally enlisting allies to hold us to account; and a means for cultivating
and disseminating the dynamic power of we.

Rising Together is for readers at every stage and level in their careers who
recognize that building a broad range of relationships is essential to their
advancement, now and in the future. This book also serves as an indispensable
guide for HR, diversity, and leadership professionals tasked with addressing
the misunderstandings, resentments, and derailments caused by the eight
triggers. Sally's focus on behaviors--how we act--rather than bias--how we
think--promises to redirect the inclusion conversation in a grounded, real-
world way that brings us together.