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What's Your Zip Code Story?
- Author
- CJ Gross
- Narrator
- Brandon Colbert
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 15 November 2022
- Run Time
- 6 hours 15 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Shedding light on class division, this audiobook offers solutions to class bias in the workplace by analyzing real experiences, social norms, education, wealth, and more.
The renewed focus on class, race, and equality in the workplace and beyond is making an indelible mark on society. This clarion call for change is sweeping inequality from every corner of the nation, including law enforcement, schools, and businesses. And within the past five years, diversity and inclusion, as well as unconscious bias, have been the main drivers of organizational training, politics, and community engagement.
What’s Your Zip Code Story? helps clarify the intersection of class bias and racial disparity in the workplace and arms organizations with the knowledge to not only have productive discussions, but also adopt effective solutions. Gross instructs class-migrants—whether college students, recent graduates, or overlooked employees—on how to climb the career lattice and transform themselves from undervalued employees to respected leaders. The book tackles challenges that class-migrants encounter when navigating the workplace and provides operative practices that can be utilized to hone new professional skills and drive positive change in workplace culture. It is a powerful tool that will inspire marginalized employees who are hungry for personal and professional growth, as well as give insight to business leaders seeking a new way to engage their teams. Through the lived experiences of the author and research-based strategies, listeners will find insights on how to increase workplace engagement and business performance.
Critics Review
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“Gross asks both employees and leaders to reflect on their ‘zip code stories,’ or the childhood experiences and cultural norms that reflect their class…It’s a much-needed conversation starter about class in the workplace.”
Publishers Weekly
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“Gross challenges readers to recognize their own zip-code stories and how they shape their views of others…Emigrants, workplace-diversity-and-inclusion leaders, college students, and those interested in social justice will be drawn to this book.”
Booklist
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“What’s Your Zip Code Story? shows why it’s important to include class in your diversity initiatives, not because class is more important than race but because you won’t be able to effectively recruit and retain people of color without addressing class as well as race—and because first-generation professionals of all races are, in effect, migrating from one class culture to a different one. This book will help.”
Joan C. Williams, author, Bias Interrupted: Creating Inclusion for Real and for Good and White Working Class
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“This timely and important book…brings a fresh and innovative perspective to our nation’s current discussion on issues of diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion in the workplace. From the very beginning of our nation, a person’s place of birth has had a profound impact on almost every aspect of their opportunities in life. Drawing on his own life experiences, as well as the experiences of others, Gross speaks to this critical reality. He does so by not only providing organizations with tools and strategies to help facilitate a more inclusive and equitable workplace, he does the same for his fellow “class-migrants” who are looking to climb the social and workplace ladder. For everyone who is a stakeholder in the diversity and inclusion discussion, this is a must-read book!”
Johnetta Betsch Cole, PhD, president emerita, Spelman and Bennett Colleges; director emerita, Smithsonian National Museum of African Art; and chair of the board and president, National Council of Negro Women
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Details
- Author
- CJ Gross
- Narrator
- Brandon Colbert
- Duration
- 6 hours 15 minutes
- Release Date
- 15 November 2022
- ISBN
- 9798212332705
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Relationships and families: advice and issues, Child care and upbringing: advice for parents, Personnel and human resources management, Social discrimination and equal treatment, Advice on careers and achieving success
Synopsis
Shedding light on class division, this audiobook offers solutions to class bias in the workplace by analyzing real experiences, social norms, education, wealth, and more.The renewed focus on class, race, and equality in the workplace and beyond is making an indelible mark on society. This clarion call for change is sweeping inequality from every corner of the nation, including law enforcement, schools, and businesses. And within the past five years, diversity and inclusion, as well as unconscious bias, have been the main drivers of organizational training, politics, and community engagement.What’s Your Zip Code Story? helps clarify the intersection of class bias and racial disparity in the workplace and arms organizations with the knowledge to not only have productive discussions, but also adopt effective solutions. Gross instructs class-migrants—whether college students, recent graduates, or overlooked employees—on how to climb the career lattice and transform themselves from undervalued employees to respected leaders. The book tackles challenges that class-migrants encounter when navigating the workplace and provides operative practices that can be utilized to hone new professional skills and drive positive change in workplace culture. It is a powerful tool that will inspire marginalized employees who are hungry for personal and professional growth, as well as give insight to business leaders seeking a new way to engage their teams. Through the lived experiences of the author and research-based strategies, listeners will find insights on how to increase workplace engagement and business performance.
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