Person You Mean to Be

How Good People Fight Bias

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Dolly Chugh, Laszlo Bock: Person You Mean to Be (2018, HarperCollins Publishers)

English language

Published Nov. 12, 2018 by HarperCollins Publishers.

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978-0-06-269216-0
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"I had hoped that [good people] would understand that law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and that when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress."

Martin Luther King wrote those words in his Letter From a Birmingham Jail in 1963. More than 50 years later, many of those same dams still exist - and even though many of us think of ourselves as good people, if we're honest, we're often much more focused on our own day-to-day challenges than we are on finding ways to encourage social progress.

Dolly's book attacks that challenge head-on, and provides a blueprint for how we can be more aware of challenges others face, more likely to engage those challenges, and more capable of using our privilege in ways that produce a more positive outcome. Throughout the book, I felt …

Subjects

  • Conduct of life
  • Personnel management