Leadership in urban communities listening?

My Leadership for the Common Good course inspires me to ask urban leadership questions. The challenge is working on how to get them to listen and face the difficult converstations that surface when inspiring equity. The following are some of the literature that I have found helpful.
Listening: A Framework for Teaching Across Differences(Paperback)
by Katherine Schultz




Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most [Paperback] Douglas Stone (Author), Bruce Patton (Author), Sheila Heen (Author), Roger Fisher (Foreword)

Urban Leadership using diversity as power

Using diversity as power will be mandatory if society is to achieve prosperity and leadership will need to provide guidance. The guidance can start with good literture and users of that literture verifying the content of the books knowledge. If the following literture needs further verification then I will return your purchasing cost.

Our Power is in our Diversity - Stand together or Fall Alone?

Geraldine Brooks' "Nine Parts of Desire." and Author Ann Jones, are going to change the way women are treated and the world will be a better place when tjey do. Violence against women is violence against humanity and no traditional ultraconservative attitudes toward women or for that matter minorities should be tolerated. ..  Read Kabul in Winter and become part of the movement!