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The Multicultural Mindset
Joycelyn David
In today's fractured business climate, cultural intelligence has emerged as the defining competitive advantage. Marketing innovator Joycelyn David answers this challenge with her groundbreaking new book, "The Multicultural Mindset" published by Advantage Authority. In an era where business success increasingly depends on cross-cultural fluency, discover how to unlock your multicultural intelligence (MQ), transcend cultural barriers, and forge authentic connections across diverse markets and teams.
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Designing for Diversity: Developing Inclusive and Equitable Talent Management Processes
Binna Kandola
Designing for Diversity is a practical, research-informed guide for managers, HR leads and departmental heads who want to improve performance assessment, promotion decisions and leadership pipelines without reinforcing bias.
Binna Kandola challenges outdated philosophies that shape traditional talent management, showing how they can unintentionally exclude high-potential individuals. Drawing on real-world examples, the book provides actionable strategies to design systems that truly recognize and nurture leadership talent.
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Courage Over Fear: Harness the Power of Agency to Lead in Uncertain Times
Kristen Kavanaugh
Mike Randolph
Based on their past experiences as senior leaders at Tesla and their work with The Agency Initiative, Kavanaugh and Randolph present readers with The Agency Loop, a structured framework for practicing courageous leadership and navigating uncertainty with authenticity, agency, and growth.
In practice, The Agency Loop allows readers to confront real challenges that we all face today—from the deprioritization of DEI, to political and social polarization and the rapid rise of innovation reshaping the workplace.
With practical strategies, real-world case studies, and hard-earned lessons, Courage Over Fear equips leaders to:
• Seize agency by taking control of decisions that align with their values and mission.
• Navigate uncertainty with confidence by turning fear into opportunity and chaos into clarity.
• Reject fear-driven leadership by build trust, resilience, and curiosity instead of control and division.
This book helps leaders and workers dispose of fear-based policies.
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Building Inclusion: A Practical Guide to Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Architecture and the Built Environment
Marsha Ramroop
A manual to support and provide essential guidance to the profession on these key issues. Acknowledging that the existence of EDI procedures does not necessarily ensure their use, it focuses on demonstrating behaviours that help create, implement and enforce policies, procedures and practices to deliver inclusion. Written by Marsha Ramroop, former inaugural EDI Director at the RIBA and award-winning EDI strategist, the book targets the pain points of talent attraction and retention, public sector procurement, community engagement and inclusive design. It utilises case studies from organisations across the sector and the world with successful EDI practices, as well as testimonials of lived experiences of discrimination which provide important insight to the reader. The book takes an intersectional approach, considering not just the separate identities of race, ethnicity, nationality, age, gender and sexual identity, disability, neurodiversity and class but the overlap of these.