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Sex, Politics & Religion at the Office: The New Competitive Advantage

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Doug and John do an excellent job of wrestling with the elephant in the room. Rather than sweeping the entire reality of our basic human frailties, temptations, needs and desires in our workplace under the rug, these two gentlemen hit them head on. With no apology or excuses, every chapter of this latest work plainly and simply lays out the hesitancies, blushings and provocative thinking of our workplace colleagues. Through stories and the rational application of proven theories about how human beings behave with each other, the authors help management explore, identify and design an employment environment that can remain sensitive to each employee's unique personal identity while maintaining professional respect, acknowledgement and validation critical to sustaining a productive workforce.

Boogaert and Noll take on the forbidden subjects of sex, politics and religion at the office and through their book allow us to have safe and respectful conversations about the very topics that divide us as a culture and a country. Repression, they declare, is no longer an option for any company wishing a sustainable competitive advantage from its workforce. Instead, starting with our own internal assumptions, values and beliefs, and working outwards towards our co-workers, we learn what truly healthy attitudes look like. Boogaert and Noll show us how these essential human qualities can be turned into significant profits for any organziation. I found this book to be refreshing, eye-opening, and enlightening and am recommending it to all of my clients.

Sex, Politics, and Religion at the Office is brilliantly written with experience as the backbone to these two authors. Douglas E. Noll and John F. Boogaert bridge the business world from the crazy laws now covering sexual harassment, to the common sense approach that not only will show you how not to suffer lawsuits, but will actually make your company money. This book truly is "The New Competitive Advantage" for companies with 2 employees to over 2,000.

I was looking for a book that would offer solid strategies for dealing with an executive who continually brings politics into office meetings in the form of rants. My hope was that it would be more practical, and would have some grounding in research. I didn't see evidence of that. A real disappointment. The book reads more like an opinion piece and appears to have been self published.

Written by corporate leadership and crisis management expert John F. Boogaert and former business trial lawyer Douglas E. Noll, Sex, Politics, & Religion at the Office: The New Competitive Advantage is a guide for business and corporate managers and officials to move beyond simple legal compliance with national regulations and shape corporate culture with healthy attitudes towards sex, politics, religion, and power. From setting one's "Grounded Positioning Statement" to understanding the reality of the intersection between politics and religion to learning how to be nonjudgmental, noncritical, and nonreactive when dealing with thorny sexual, religious, or values-based issues, Sex, Politics, & Religion at the Office offers valuable insight into how human beings actually think and work, and how best to be the catalyst to improved coworker and worker-management relations. True vignettes pepper this handy, sensible, down-to-earth guide which avoids any kind of moralizing and focuses on promoting intellectual and emotional well-being at the office.

Boogaert and Noll have dared to cross the picket line of compliance and move into a courageous reliance on laws much deeper within the hearts and souls of men and women. Sex, Politics and Religion at the Office offers a trailblazing approach empowering employees to take their entire tool kit to work and to awaken the full spectrum of their possibilities.