In our experience, the opportunity to thrive has two practical drivers: a culture that values inclusion and widespread access to development opportunities. Later in the book, we’ll spend more time on the mechanics of culture, but we also want to highlight the role of culture here, given how central it is to the experience of belonging inside organizations. A culture of inclusion has four levels: safe, welcome, celebrated, and cherished. These levels can be visualized in our “inclusion dial” in figure 4-1. We often draw people into this discussion by asking them to measure the inclusiveness of
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