Inclusify
Stefanie K. Johnson · 2020
Inclusify (2020) is a book by Stefanie K. Johnson on Inclusive Leadership. Organizational psychologist Stefanie Johnson argues teams need both uniqueness and belonging, then profiles six well-meaning leader types, from Meritocracy Manager to Optimist, who sabotage one without noticing.
Most leaders who quietly undermine inclusion are not villains, they are well-meaning managers running one of six specific, recognizable patterns this book names and fixes.
Two of the ideas you’ll keep
The Clif summary of Inclusify pulls out 8 insights. Here are the first two.
- Inclusive teams need both **belonging** and **uniqueness** at once: too much belonging without uniqueness makes people **Incomplete** (fitting in but hiding who they are), too much uniqueness without belonging makes them **Insular** (authentic but never fully trusted), and too little of both leaves them **Invisible**.
- The **ABCs of Breaking Bias**, Admit it, Block it, Count it, replace "colorblind" good intentions with structural fixes; when the Hubble Space Telescope's proposal review dropped applicants' names, women's proposals succeeded at rates that matched or beat men's, exposing bias that had been hiding behind claims of pure merit.
The other 6 — and the full 11-minute summary — are in the app.
What’s inside: 9 chapters
The whole summary runs about 11 minutes, read or listened to.
- The Power of Uniqueness and Belonging
- The ABCs of Breaking Bias
- The Meritocracy Manager
- The Culture Crusader
- The Team Player
- The White Knight
- The Shepherd
- The Optimist
- Becoming an Inclusifyer
Finish Inclusify tonight.
Read or listen to the full summary in about 11 minutes, then keep the ideas with a minute of review a day. Start with the 2-minute quiz — no card required.