Giving Notice: Why the Best and Brightest are Leaving the Workplace and How You Can Help them Stay

Introduction vii

1 The Meritocracy Myth: Is the Playing Field Level? 1

2 Slights Unseen 16

3 From the Top 33

4 The Cost of Bias 48

5 Does Blink = Bias? 67

6 Dismantling Barriers from the Inside 82

7 Know the Signs from the Outside 109

8 Bias Around the World 125

9 Ten Steps Back 137

10 Toward a New Framework 157

A What’s in a Resume? 183

B Determining the Cost of Unfairness 189

C Sources of Corporate Leaver Stories 197

Notes 201

References 205

Acknowledgments 211

The Author 213

Index 215