Everyday Bias

Howard J. Ross, a lifelong social justice advocate and founding partner of the nationally recognized diversity consulting firm Cook Ross, Inc., is the author of Reinventing Diversity: Transforming Organizational Community to Strengthen People, Purpose, and Performance (2011), Everyday Bias: Identifying and Navigating Unconscious Bias in our Everyday Lives and Our Search for Belonging: How Our Need to Connect is Tearing Us Apart (Barrett Koehler, 2018) His work has been published by the Harvard Business Review, the Washington Post, the New York Times, and Forbes, and he has worked with Fortune 500 companies across a variety of industries. He resides in Washington, DC.

Introduction:
Blinded by the Light of Our Bias

Chapter One
If You are Human, You are Biased

Chapter Two
Thinking about Thinking

Chapter Three
The Many Faces of Bias

Chapter Four
Life, Death and Unconscious Bias on a Rainy Night

Chapter Six
Like Water for the Fish: Networks of Bias in Everyday Life

Chapter Seven
Shifting to Neutral: How We Can Learn to Disengage from Bias

Chapter Eight
Incubators of Consciousness: Creating More Conscious Organizations

Conclusion:
A Brave New World, A Grand New Journey

Acknowledgments

Bibliography

Endnotes