Download What if I Say the Wrong Thing? 25 Habits for Culturally Effective People Verna A Myers 9781614389712 Books

Product details Paperback 125 pages Publisher American Bar Association; 1 edition (April 7, 2014) Language English ISBN-10 1614389713

What if I Say the Wrong Thing? 25 Habits for Culturally Effective People Verna A Myers 9781614389712 Books Reviews

• As an educated white professional leader in my field, I have been trying to incorporate diversity,inclusion, and social justice into everything I do for 25 years. This book is a practical, succinct guide to identifying all the situations I've run into and what the culturally competent responses would have been. Wish I had had it at my fingertips all those years. A lot of good analysis and advise packed into a simple, easily digestible format. Excellent, accessible, practical advice.
• Incredibly practical, accessible and memorable. The concepts are easy to apply in an extremely diverse health care system. This is worth every penny!
• Verna Myers takes key points and tips from her awesome book, Moving Diversity Forward How To Go From Well-Meaning to Well-Doing, and condenses them into a concise, informative, insightful and entertaining pocket guide. Using personal stories, business examples, and psychology research, she addresses all the diversity challenges that can arise in the workplace, around the family table, or even in the supermarket. Myers offers cogent analyses of how racism and prejudice influence all of us, and offers positive and practical suggestions for being effective in our culturally diverse world. I bought 10 copies to give to colleagues and clients, and I'm sure I'll order more.
• Might help you forgive yourself for the stupid things you have said to minority people in the past. Gives concrete examples of what to say and what not to say. This is perhaps the most useful book I have seen to help white advocates change our behavior in concrete and helpful ways.
• This book made me take a second look at myself and want to make changes in my thinking when it comes to different types of people and situations. I suggested this book for my book club, the discussion was about our different isms and biases that we weren't even aware we had. I especially enjoyed the historically advantage and disadvantaged chart which will allows you to determine which group you belong to. The author choose one-up and on-down for each category which I found interesting. This is a book I can refer back to for help in my daily walk in life. What if I say the Wrong Thing is a book for everyone and I have suggested it to family and friends.
• A quick read and worth every minute. Verna has some easy and enlightening tips to help us all out. I have heard her speak and her voice comes through her writing. We are all human, we all make mistakes, this is a great book for helping us get over them.
• WOW! The things that you dob't think about. Very thought provoking and conversation starting.
• Ever purchased books with the intent to read them immediately? Instead, some of them end up placed on the---I will get to it---shelf of good intentions. Please consider doing yourself (and others) a kind favor---get this book, read this book, and fortify your journey on every possible level.