This page contains downloadable articles that were initially
distributed in the form of Sondra's "Bias-Free Leadership" e-newsletter.
Feel free to download or reprint any of these articles. Our
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Please e-mail Sondra if you have questions about any of this
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Please click on a month and topic below to access each
issue:
July 2004 Issue: "Bias--The Good Leader’s Fatal Flaw"
August 2004 Issue: "Reduce Bias by Identifying Shared 'Kinship Groups'"
September 2004 Issue: "Reduce Bias via the “Magic If” Strategy"
October 2004 Issue: "Dissecting Your Biases: The Key to Better Leadership Skills"
November 2004 Issue: "Triage – How to Decide Which Biases to Treat First"
December 2004 Issue: "Seven Ways to Turn Bias-Related Tension into Gateways for Understanding"
January 2005 Issue: "Mindfulness – The Key to Bias Reduction "
February 2005 Issue: "Overcoming Resistance to Attitude Change"
March 2005 Issue: "Can Bias Be Defeated?: What the Research Reveals -- Part I"
April 2005 Issue: "Can Bias Be Defeated?: What the Research Reveals -- Part II"
May 2005 Issue: "Can Bias Be Defeated?: What the Research Reveals -- Part III"
June 2005 Issue: "Squashing the Bias Revival – Part I"
July 2005 Issue: "Squashing the Bias Revival -- Part II"
August 2005 Issue: "Positive Biases – More Dangerous Than You Think"
September 2005 Issue: "Five Fast Factors for Making Diversity Work"
October 2005 Issue: "Gateway Events” Part I – Set Productive Goals"
November 2005 Issue: "Gateway Events Part II – The Role of Emotion "
December 2005 Issue: "Is There Bias on Your Diversity Council?"
January 2006 Issue: "How to Get 'Diversity Fit' "
March 2006 Issue: "Taking Responsibility Not to Be Offended -- Can it Be Done?"
April 2006 Issue: "Glad to Make Your Acquaintance"
May 2006 Issue: "'All Good Things': The Hidden Danger in Positive Biases"
June 2006 Issue: "Looking Within -- How to Get Out of Your Own Way"
July 2006 Issue: "Thinking it Through: How to Analyze Away Bias"
August 2006 Issue: "Fake It Till You Make It"
September 2006 Issue: "Is ‘Guerilla Bias'™ Making War on Your Organization?"
October 2006 Issue: "'I Was Only Kidding'"
November 2006 Issue: "Much for Which to Be Thankful"
December 2006 Issue: "'Attitude' Not 'Intent': A Proposed Change in Diversity Language"
January 2007 Issue: "’Ms. She’ Believed What They Told Her"
February 2007 Issue: "Naming the Feeling -- What it Really Means to Be 'Offended'"
March 2007 Issue: "Dog the Bias Hunter"
April 2007 Issue: "Virginia Tech – Entering the Danger Zone "
May 2007 Issue: "Imus in Us"
June 2007 Issue: "A Bee in My Bonnet"
August 2007 Issue: "Swedes, Norwegians, and the Confederate Flag"
September 2007 Issue: "The Parent Trap: Learning Bias from ‘Ambivalent Racists'"
October 2007 Issue: "’Cash Cab’ The Prequel"
November 2007 Issue: "My Father's Diary"
December 2007 Issue: "Big Rig Bias"
January 2008 Issue: "'Bomba' and the Prime Minister's Son"
March 2008 Issue: "I'd Never Date a Republican"
April 2008 Issue: "One More Chance to Talk"
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