Water for Swans & Landings for Eagles: The Definitive Guide to Designing Successful, Inclusive Cultures (Paperback)

Are you an aspiring executive who is tired of constantly being told how you have to change in order to fit in and succeed? Are you an organizational leader experiencing overload with all the expert advice you've gotten about gender diversity programs that fail to achieve your organization's goals for advancing women? If you answered yes, then this book is for you. Unlike many other "how-to guides," Water for Swans and Landings for Eagles doesn't focus on the behavioral changes women need to make in order to better adapt to corporate environments. Moreover, it doesn't provide a formula for cookie-cutter programs that companies are expected to implement. Rather, this innovative guide focuses on unique and creative design changes that organizations and their leaders can easily make to create more welcoming, more successful, and more sustainable workplace cultures. This new model is unlike anything you've seen before. In Water for Swans and Landings for Eagles readers discover the powerful connections between structural design, performance, and success. Readers walk away with valuable tips that they and their organizations can quickly put to use. This guidebook offers incredible insights on topics such as: - How workplace language influences whether employees feel they belong - How the shape and style of meeting room tables drives outcomes - How colors can create environments that support engagement - How typical competencies in leadership performance appraisals can be rephrased for broader application This transformational guidebook provides a new, innovative roadmap to successfully build inclusive cultures.