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2. PROVERSITY
Getting past face value and Finding
the soul of people
-A Maneger’s Journey
by Lawrence Otis Graham
Published by:John Wiley & Sons, Inc.1997

4.  Biography
 AT A GLANCE
 Background
 NOMENCLATURE
 Proversity
 Exposition Elements
 Summary
 Theme
 Reading recommendations
Table Of Contents:

5. Lawrence Otis Graham(born1962:
African-American) is a nationally known
Business author. He is also President of Progressive
Management Associates, Inc., a consulting firm that
has advised companies, nonprofit organizations, and
government agencies on progressive strategies for
managing a changing workplace. A graduate of
Princeton University and Harvard Law School, Graham
is on the faculty of Fordham University where he
teaches the course "Minorities and Women in
Corporate American." He is a frequent TV commentator
on workplace issues on CNN, CNBC.
Biography:

6. Part 01Part 01 AN ORGANIZATION WITH PASSIVE BIASAN ORGANIZATION WITH PASSIVE BIAS
Part 03Part 03
Part 02Part 02 MY NAME IS PERCY AND I AM A PASSIVE
BIGOT
MY NAME IS PERCY AND I AM A PASSIVE
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IMPLEMENTING THE POWER OF PROVERSITYIMPLEMENTING THE POWER OF PROVERSITY
17 CHAPTER17 CHAPTER
196 PAGES196 PAGES
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AT A GLANCE:
GENEREGENEREGENEREGENERE BUSINESS NOVELBUSINESS NOVEL
PRICEPRICEPRICEPRICE BUSINESS NOVELBUSINESS NOVEL

7. The human resource management field is searching
for a new direction to take diversity programs. Look
no longer. Proversity is a giant leap forward in
helping organizations embrace the most important
asset of all people.
Background:
THE WORLD IS CHANGING

8. PROVERSITYPROVERSITY
PRO GRESSPRO GRESS
DI VERSITYDI VERSITY
NOMENCLATURE:

9. Proversity:
 Proversity is an enlightening, entertaining,
thought-provoking, and extremely practical look at
one of the most complex management problems
facing the corporate world today....

10.  Diversity focuses on what makes us different—be
it race, age, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or
religion .
 Proversity does just the opposite: it looks for the
things we all have in common...
Proversity:

11. Biasness in the workplace hinders productivity and
what managers can do about it.
ProversityTM
, Graham offers a new approach for
transforming diversity,
affirmative action
multiculturalism
in the workplace from a hindrance into a powerful
competitive advantage.
Proversity:

12. Exposition Elements:
Setting (time and place):
National Flashlight Company(NFC)
99-year-old company

13. Characters:
Percy McGee—Vice President of Domestic
Marketing of NFC
CEO
Ann,28 year old executive assistant
of Percy McGee
Austin,Salesman of NFC,friend of McGee
Exposition Elements:

14. Written in the form of a business novel, Proversity
chronicles the education and enlightenment of Percy
McGee, an average manager in an average company,
as he overcomes his bias and learns to see beyond
people's differences in order to recognize their strengths.
Summary:

15. By starting to recognize and eliminate his own
Passive Bias, Percy McGee learns how to effectively
follow the Four Steps to Becoming a Progressive
Manager.
Summary:

16. Throughout the course of the story, Graham explains
how to discover and apply the power of "Proversity" to
everyday and long-term work situations.
Along the way, Graham introduces his original, proven
progressive management tools and concepts, including
a checklist to help you recognize bias in yourself and
others, and A Progressive Manager's 12
Commandments.
.
Summary:

17. Percy McGee
Percy McGee
CEO
PROVERSITY
Different experience
Personal life
Percy McGee

18. “Have you ever quickly judged people at face value
before really getting to know them? Does that make
you racist or sexist? Have you ever been startled by a
biased thought that's passed through your head? You
are not alone.....”
Favourite qutation:

19. Theme Summarized:

20. Critical appriciation:

21. Who might or might not like the book
What is the intended age group
Reading recommendations:

22. THANK YOU