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PROVERSITY

Getting past face value and Finding the soul of people

-A Maneger’s Journey

by Lawrence Otis Graham

Published by:John Wiley & Sons, Inc.1997 

Biography AT A GLANCE Background NOMENCLATURE Proversity Exposition Elements Summary Theme Reading recommendations

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Lawrence Otis Graham(born1962: African-American) is a nationally known Business author. He is also President of Progressive Management Associates, Inc., a consulting firm that has advised companies, nonprofit organizations, and government agencies on progressive strategies for managing a changing workplace. A graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School, Graham is on the faculty of Fordham University where he teaches the course "Minorities and Women in Corporate American." He is a frequent TV commentator on workplace issues on CNN, CNBC.

Biography:

Part 01 AN ORGANIZATION WITH PASSIVE BIAS

Part 03Part 02 MY NAME IS PERCY AND I AM A PASSIVE

BIGOTIMPLEMENTING THE POWER OF PROVERSITY

17 CHAPTER

196 PAGES

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AT A GLANCE:

GENEREGENERE BUSINESS NOVEL

PRICEPRICE BUSINESS NOVEL

The human resource management field is searching for a new direction to take diversity programs. Look no longer. Proversity is a giant leap forward in helping organizations embrace the most important asset of all people.

Background: THE WORLD IS CHANGING

PROVERSITY

PRO GRESSDI VERSITY

NOMENCLATURE:

Proversity:

Proversity is an enlightening, entertaining, thought-provoking, and extremely practical look at one of the most complex management problems facing the corporate world today....

Diversity focuses on what makes us different—be it race, age, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or religion .

Proversity does just the opposite: it looks for the things we all have in common...

Proversity:

Biasness in the workplace hinders productivity and what managers can do about it.

ProversityTM, Graham offers a new approach for transforming diversity, affirmative action multiculturalism in the workplace from a hindrance into a powerful competitive advantage.

Proversity:

Exposition Elements: Setting (time and place):

National Flashlight Company(NFC) 99-year-old company

Characters:

Percy McGee—Vice President of Domestic Marketing of NFC

CEOAnn,28 year old executive assistant of Percy McGeeAustin,Salesman of NFC,friend of McGee

Exposition Elements:

Written in the form of a business novel, Proversity chronicles the education and enlightenment of Percy McGee, an average manager in an average company, as he overcomes his bias and learns to see beyond people's differences in order to recognize their strengths.

Summary:

By starting to recognize and eliminate his own Passive Bias, Percy McGee learns how to effectively follow the Four Steps to Becoming a Progressive Manager.

Summary:

Throughout the course of the story, Graham explains how to discover and apply the power of "Proversity" to everyday and long-term work situations.

Along the way, Graham introduces his original, proven progressive management tools and concepts, including a checklist to help you recognize bias in yourself and others, and A Progressive Manager's 12 Commandments..

Summary:

Percy McGee

Percy McGee

CEO

PROVERSITY

Different experiencePersonal lifePercy McGee

“Have you ever quickly judged people at face value before really getting to know them? Does that make you racist or sexist? Have you ever been startled by a biased thought that's passed through your head? You are not alone.....”

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