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Breaking Through Bias
Angela Lee
Assoc. Dean & Chief Innovation Officer, Columbia Business School
Founder, 37 Angels
Our brains are lazy
Our brains are limited
Our brains hate change
Embrace the bias
Harvard Implicit Association Test
Environment
Tools
Mindset
Blind yourself to your biases
Increase weak ties
Strong ties
Weak ties
Quotas
Pipeline
What biases might people have about
you?
Proactively manage biases
Behaviors
Non-verbal cues
Experience
Introductions
Training Process
Language Physical
Environment
What will you commit to?• How will you acknowledge and embrace your biases?
• Take the Harvard Implicit Association Test
Mindset
Tools
Environment
• What processes can you add to blind yourself to bias?
• Can you incorporate post-it notes as a method for input?
• Can you use 6 Thinking Hats in a meeting?
• How can you change your pipeline for hires / promotions?
• How can you diversify your network with more weak ties?
• How can you diversify who attends certain meetings?
• What biases might people have about you, and how to mitigate by
changing behaviors, non-verbals, credentials, or introductions?
• What additional training do you or your team need?
• What processes can you change to diminish bias?
• What language can you change in meetings or in job postings?
• What to change about physical environment to support your goals?
Resources
• Give & Take: Adam Grant
• Mindset: Carol Dweck
• The Athena Doctrine: John Gerzema
• Please Understand Me: David Keirsey
• Compelling People: John Neffinger
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