Everyday Bias

To be human is to be biased, especially with today's technologies and politics reinforcing our unconscious reactions. Most people do not see themselves as biased towards people different from themselves, yet disparities and dangerous prejudices still run rampant. Why is that? And is there anything we can do about it? Building on the transformational lessons of the bestselling Everyday Bias, Howard J. Ross and Jake Ross reveal how bias is built into our increasingly digital lives and how we must fight against the epidemic of isolation and loneliness tearing apart our sense of connection and belonging. New chapters explore structures of power that create micro-inequities and micro-advantages, the digital attention economy's promotion of isolation and destruction of trust through misinformation, and the embedded prejudices being promoted by artificial intelligence. Learning to see bias and disengage from it, Howard and Jake show us how to break destructive cognitive patterns to create healthier, more conscious relationships and organizations, both in our personal and professional lives.

Howard J. Ross is the author of Reinventing Diversity: Transforming Organizational Community to Strengthen People, Purpose, and Performance and Our Search for Belonging: How Our Need to Connect is Tearing Us Apart. 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. A lifelong social justice advocate and founding partner of the nationally recognized diversity consulting firm Cook Ross, Inc., Howard still speaks broadly with his new company, Udarta Consulting LLC. He resides in the Shenandoah Valley, just west of Washington, DC.

Foreword, john a. powell Acknowledgments Introduction: Blinded by the Light of Our Bias 1. If You Are Human, You Are Biased 2. Thinking about Thinking 3. The Many Faces of Bias 4. Life, Death, Arrests, and Unconscious Bias 5. Who Has the Power? 6. The Cost of the Attention Economy 7. Hey Siri, Are you Biased? 8. Like Water for the Fish: Networks of Bias in Everyday Life 9. Shifting to Neutral: How We Can Learn to Disengage from Bias 10. Incubators of Consciousness: Creating More Conscious Organizations Conclusion: A Brave New World, A Grand New Journey Appendix: A Top Ten List of Ways to Navigate Bias in Talent Management Notes Bibliography Index About the Authors