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DEI Deconstructed: Your No-Nonsense Guide to Doing the Work and Doing It Right Hardcover – November 8, 2022
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The importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace cannot be understated. But when half-baked and under-developed strategies are implemented, they often do more harm than good, leading the very constituents they aim to support to dismiss DEI entirely.
DEI Deconstructed analyzes how current methods and “best practices” leave marginalized people feeling frustrated and unconvinced of their leaders’ sincerity, and offers a roadmap that bridges the neatness of theory with the messiness of practice. Through embracing a pragmatic DEI approach drawing from cutting-edge research on organizational change, evidence-based practices, and incisive insights from a DEI strategist with experience working from the top-down and bottom-up alike, stakeholders at every level of an organization can become effective DEI changemakers. Nothing less than this is required to scale DEI from interpersonal teeth-pulling to true systemic change.
By utilizing an outcome-oriented understanding of DEI, along with a comprehensive foundation of actionable techniques, this no-nonsense guide will lay out the path for anyone with any background to becoming a more effective DEI practitioner, ally, and leader.
- Print length360 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherBerrett-Koehler Publishers
- Publication dateNovember 8, 2022
- Dimensions6.32 x 1.17 x 9.33 inches
- ISBN-101523002778
- ISBN-13978-1523002771
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—Minda Harts, bestselling author of The Memo and Right Within
“Action-oriented, results-driven, and outcomes-based, Lily Zheng’s no-nonsense approach transforms DEI into a tangible and accessible process to galvanize your entire workforce as DEI stakeholders."
—David G. Smith, PhD, Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, and coauthor of Athena Rising and Good Guys
"Using their signature decisive and direct voice, Lily Zheng delivers an accountability-centered and immediately actionable road map to building a more equitable and inclusive modern workplace."
—Michelle MiJung Kim, award-winning author of The Wake Up and a LinkedIn Top Voice in Racial Equity
"One of the brightest minds in DEI work today brings us a ‘how-to’ for inclusive leaders. You’ll be amazed at how Zheng’s straight talk and clear thinking are so deeply grounded in research. You should ‘book club’ this one in your business; it offers the path for avoiding ‘performative allyship.’"
—Chuck Shelton, CEO, Greatheart Consulting
"A must-read guide for how to advocate for change at work and in the broader world. Lily Zheng’s insights on the various roles that changemakers take on, combined with their deep analysis of the history of the field, will make DEI Deconstructed a critical desk reference for all of us seeking to build the better world we imagine."
—Aubrey Blanche, The Mathpath and Senior Director of Equitable Design, Culture Amp
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- Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers (November 8, 2022)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 360 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1523002778
- ISBN-13 : 978-1523002771
- Item Weight : 1.26 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.32 x 1.17 x 9.33 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #49,240 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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LILY ZHENG (they/them) is a no-nonsense Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion strategist, consultant, speaker and author who helps organizations and leaders achieve the DEI outcomes they aspire to. A dedicated practitioner and advocate named a Forbes D&I Trailblazer, 2021 DEI Influencer, and LinkedIn Top Voice on Racial Equity, Lily has been featured in the Harvard Business Review, New York Times, and NPR. Their bestselling books, DEI Deconstructed and Reconstructing DEI, describe cutting-edge, accountable, and effective practices that can enable any leader to create the diverse, equitable, and inclusive organizations we all deserve.
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I will not shelf this book anytime soon. Using the tags, I will eventually create a summary to reflect on my role and how to use the tools and techniques offered in the book to become a better DEI practitioner.
The Book is deep. Give yourself time. Few (Only a few) points to note.
i) The definition of diversity, equity, and inclusion makes sense. It is outcome-oriented and not simply performative DEI.
ii) The book reminds us how power is embedded in systems, why we need to create a power map when creating any change effort, and how the interaction among strategy, power, and structure allows to backward design outcomes.
iii) The book brilliantly explains identity and its role.
iv) Stakeholders' roles presented in chapter 7 link stakeholders' movement and the organization's role.
v) In achieving DEI, we are reminded how trust affects the speed of change!
vi) An organization can achieve DEI when there is accountability (Page 241)...
What's great about the book is it is helpful for anyone who is trying to build a movement to effect changes and will help you spot "performative" DEI and understand how real change is built and enacted.
Regardless of your role at your organization or the type of sector you are in, this book will give you plenty of food for thought.
Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2022
I will not shelf this book anytime soon. Using the tags, I will eventually create a summary to reflect on my role and how to use the tools and techniques offered in the book to become a better DEI practitioner.
The Book is deep. Give yourself time. Few (Only a few) points to note.
i) The definition of diversity, equity, and inclusion makes sense. It is outcome-oriented and not simply performative DEI.
ii) The book reminds us how power is embedded in systems, why we need to create a power map when creating any change effort, and how the interaction among strategy, power, and structure allows to backward design outcomes.
iii) The book brilliantly explains identity and its role.
iv) Stakeholders' roles presented in chapter 7 link stakeholders' movement and the organization's role.
v) In achieving DEI, we are reminded how trust affects the speed of change!
vi) An organization can achieve DEI when there is accountability (Page 241)...
What's great about the book is it is helpful for anyone who is trying to build a movement to effect changes and will help you spot "performative" DEI and understand how real change is built and enacted.
Regardless of your role at your organization or the type of sector you are in, this book will give you plenty of food for thought.
Did my mind explode…you bet! Were my synapses zooming, making connections, seeing possibilities…definitely. Was I shocked by the focus on trust as a foundation for this work…validated! Do I recommend this book to those dedicated to making true, incremental change over PR positive, box checking, best intentions…what do you think?
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Highly recommend for curious leaders who aren’t anywhere close to being dei knowledgeable.
The book does not deliver a satisfactory deconstruction, in my opinion. Lily fails to distinguish between activism and reformism when mentioning DEI. Framing activist movements as failed DEI initiatives instead of awareness-raising DEI initiatives. Activism is the agitation of existing stakeholders and neutral parties to bring attention to a social issue. Reform in the context of social justice is the attempt to change a system from within by building solidarity and cooperation with existing stakeholders and neutral parties.
Lily is a reformer that disparages activism because they view it as hurting their chance to reform the system. They view it as ineffective. Paradoxically they mention how the attention of movements like the MeToo movement, BLM and Landback has put their work into the spotlight but has been ineffective. Ignoring that the goal of these movements is not to build solidarity. It is to bring light and justice to the victims. Activism strives to shame society collectively into changing their behaviour and motivating others to act, which it has by opening the conversation. Activism gives reformers like Lily a chance to talk to people in a softer and more friendly manner about how we all can be better.
By failing to differentiate clearly and instead effectively saying, "my way is better," Lily does a gross injustice to those who have helped pave the road for them. Moving forward, Lily could do a better job not simply acknowledging their positionality but understanding how it has informed their views and work. Although I recommend this book to the person who wants a introduction to the field of DEI and how to implement effective interventions, I do not think it serves as an effective deconstruction.