The Loudest Duck: Moving Beyond Diversity while Embracing Differences to Achieve Success at Work

Written by Laura A. Liswood

Narrated by Lisa Rothe

Written in the accessible style of Seth Godin and Spencer Johnson, The Loudest Duck is a business fable which offers readers an alternate view of diversity through the use of practical stories and cultural anecdotes.  It will explain, for instance, how a culture such as China teaches its children, "The loudest duck gets shot," a viewpoint that gets carried into adulthood, while many Americans are taught the opposite idiomatic lesson: "The squeaky wheel gets the grease."  What you find as a result are two distinct ways of doing business, neither one being necessarily the right way or even the better way.  Yet by understanding the viewpoints from which others see the world, readers can understand how better to work with them.  The Loudest Duck is a book for managers and executives faced with the productivity and leadership challenges of a heterogeneous, multicultural workplace. It's a book for anyone working his or her way up the ladder in this new corporate world order.  It's a book for anyone who belongs to a non-dominant group, be it women, people of color, short people, or employees who don't play golf but whose bosses do.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ascent Audio
• Release date: Jul 20, 2020
• ISBN: 9781663703514

Reviews for The Loudest Duck

[jaynair_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Explains the real meaning of diversity in the workplace. Or rather, as the subtitle says, "moving beyond diversity while embracing differences to achieve success at work". It's very revealing in that it opens our mind to the many subtle ways in which the most well meaning among us inadvertently undermine diversity at work, and to the huge and adverse impact some of these actions and behaviors can have on our colleagues and on the company itself. On the other hand, if an organization succeeds in mastering diversity in its fullest sense, the rewards will be significant and lasting. This book teaches you how to make this happen in your company.