Explores how investing in a racially and ethnically diverse workforce will help make contemporary businesses more dynamic, powerful, and profitable
Carol Fulp is president and CEO of the Partnership, New England's premier organization dedicated to enhancing competitiveness by attracting, developing, and retaining multicultural professionals. Prior to joining The Partnership, Inc., she held executive roles at John Hancock Financial, WCVB (the ABC-TV Boston affiliate), and the Gillette Company. In 2010, President Obama appointed Fulp as a US representative to the sixty-fifth session of the UN's General Assembly. She lives with her husband, C. Bernard ("Bernie") Fulp, in Boston.
“Business leaders and those in education will find these stories
inspirational and will learn tactics they can apply in their
lives.”
—Booklist
“Convincing and sorely needed work . . . Fulp’s book gives
businesspeople the tools they need to prepare for an ever more
ethnically and racially diverse society.”
—Publishers Weekly
“Success Through Diversity is an eloquent and persuasive argument
for tapping the power of difference to stimulate creativity and
innovation. Carol Fulp’s compelling stories of individuals and
companies give a human face to the statistics about diversity of
thought and higher performance. This timely book will help leaders
of all kinds envision and implement positive workplaces for the
future.”
—Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School professor and
best-selling author of Confidence, SuperCorp, The Change Masters,
and Men and Women of the Corporation
“Diversity matters! Carol Fulp tells you both why & how to achieve
it.”
—Karen Kaplan, chairman & CEO of Hill Holliday Group
“Carol Fulp brings her considerable experience to bear in this
thoughtful analysis and blueprint for creating truly diverse,
inclusive, and effective communities, be they workplaces or
learning environments.”
—Paula A. Johnson, president of Wellesley College
“Required reading for learning how diversity can promote not just
business success but civic responsibility as well. Carol Fulp
points the way with a win-win blueprint for corporate executives,
public sector officials, and, most importantly, every citizen.”
—Kenneth R. Feinberg, former administrator of the September 11th
Victim Compensation Fund
“A book with a lot to teach us about how to build successful
workplaces and organizational communities: required reading in my
book.”
—David A. Thomas, president of Morehouse College
“This is the one book every CEO needs to read to understand what
diversity offers them.”
—Corey Thomas, CEO of Rapid7
“While corporate greed and malfeasance may dominate the news
headlines, this book reminds us that our most admired companies
harness the power of difference to create innovative, vibrant, and
dynamic organizations. [This book] tells how we can do well by
doing right.”
—Deval Patrick, from the Foreword
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