Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-234) and index.
Contents:
1. Hide-and-seek : Growing up ; Career ; Coming down ; Starting again ; Reflection -- 2. Beauty and bigotry : Beauty ; Blame ; Bigotry ; Television ; Worlds apart -- 3. Deeply hidden : The costs of hiding ; Professional hiding -- 4. Phantoms and fears : At the tops of corporations ; Hidden biases ; Explicit biases ; Less and less fear -- 5. Coming out is good business : Hidden costs ; Hidden stigmas ; Markets -- 6. The benefits of coming out : 'Isn't that unfortunate?' ; 'We all struggle differently' ; Poster child for diversity ; Transgender taboo ; Not everyone is heterosexual ; Even in Japan ; Stereotypes -- 7. Opinion formers and icons : Politics ; Sport ; Law ; Icons -- 8. Shattering the glass : Active leadership ; LGBT resource groups ; Straight allies ; Goals and measurement ; Individual responsibility ; Role models and their stories ; Working in conservative countries ; The future -- 9. Beyond the closet : Liberation.
Summary:
Exposing the culture of homophobia that still runs rampant in corporations around the world, the former CEO of BP draws on his own experiences to reveal why self-disclosure is best for employees despite the risk.
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