Ideas You Can Put to Work
These books translate big ideas into practical tools for leading through disruption and change. Each one offers clear insights, proven frameworks, and real-world examples to help you make strategy human, lead with character, and turn uncertainty into forward motion.
The 5 Disciplines of Inclusive Teams: Unlocking Collective Power to Achieve Breakthrough
In today’s fast-paced, interconnected world, breakthroughs don’t come from individuals—they come from teams. And not just any teams, but diverse and inclusive ones. With decades of experience and cutting-edge research, Andrés Tapia and Michel Buffet provide a revolutionary model that empowers teams to harness the full potential of diverse perspectives.
At the heart of the book are The 5 Disciplines, which guide teams to tap into their collective power: Connecting—to build affiliation; Caring—to nurture psychological safety; Synchronizing—to harness collective intelligence; Cultural Dexterity—to integrate diverse perspectives; and Powersharing—to ensure equitable contributions.
The 5 Disciplines of Inclusive Organizations: How Diverse and Equitable Enterprises Will Transform the World
A comprehensive new model for creating inclusive organizations, illuminating the vital role that inclusion plays in developing solutions to the critical social, environmental, and leadership challenges we face.
Most organizational DE&I efforts are focused on changing individual behaviors. But unless you change the organizational structures—the practices, processes, and systems that surround and support individual behaviors—your change efforts will not take root. Structural inclusion makes behavioral inclusion stick.
The 5 Disciplines of Inclusive Leaders: Unleashing the Power of All of Us
According to the journal Human Resource Management, companies are spending over $8 billion a year on diversity programs. Yet today, the senior leadership teams at Fortune 500 companies are far from mirroring the diversity of its workforce and its customers. Andrés Tapia and Alina Polonskaia, senior leaders at Korn Ferry, argue that to build sustainable diversity and inclusion, organizations need to have inclusive leaders at all levels.
In this book, Tapia and Polonskaia draw on Korn Ferry’s massive database of 3 million leadership assessments to reveal the essential qualities of inclusive leaders. They discuss the personality traits these leaders share and detail how to develop what they call the five disciplines of inclusive leadership: building interpersonal trust, integrating diverse perspectives, optimizing talent, applying an adaptive mindset, and achieving transformation.
Auténtico, Second Edition: The Definitive Guide to Latino Success
America has an urgent need for Latino and Latina executives. This book identifies a path to uplift and amplify their representation in leadership.
Latinos and Latinas will account for a third of our workforce by 2050 – yet, they make up only five percent of senior roles in corporate America. Dr. Robert Rodriguez and Andrés T. Tapia call this low percentage of Latino and Latina corporate executives today the “five percent shame”.
The Inclusion Paradox: The Post Obama Era and the Transformation of Global Diversity
In this third edition of The Inclusion Paradox: The Obama Era and the Transformation of Global Diversity, Andrés Tapia examines how today’s hyper-diverse world has transformed talent management and marketplace growth opportunities. With more than fifty new pages of updated facts, figures, and current event references, and two new chapters with Korn Ferry insights and research, Andrés explores not the political implications, but rather the cultural implications of what has been the Obama Era and beyond and what it takes to move into the next generation of diversity work to grow business and attract and retain the best talent. Practical, strategic, contemporary, and personal, The Inclusion Paradox offers business, diversity, and human resources leaders new thinking and solutions to achieve breakthroughs in diversity and inclusion.