Posts Tagged ‘Diversity’
Shift Your Mindset and Move To Healing: Radical Relationships
What do radical relationships look like in America? Consider an episode of Black-ish in which Dre Johnson finds a girl in an elevator. Dre begins the scene with a question: “What truly makes America great?†Then he steps towards the office elevator, where he finds a little white girl, alone and on the verge of…
Read MoreFinding a Way Forward, Together: Future-Focused Inclusion
When it comes to diversity in the workplace, the real work is only beginning, and the only way forward is together. To do so, we need to consider an area where the workforce is already diverse: age. Virtually every workplace includes people from multiple generations, but the generational mix is changing—and quickly. Within a decade,…
Read MoreDon’t think outside the (check box). Blow it up.
US companies spend $8 billion a year on diversity and inclusion initiatives—with squat to show for it. Consider the equivalent spending for a US company’s R&D budget: $8 billion dollars puts you in the top 20 of all corporate innovation spending. That’s equal to Ford’s annual budget, and more than Pfizer, Facebook, General Motors, and…
Read MoreHealing the Great Divide: When a Red Man Stood Up for What Is Right
My hope is that we develop enough courage to develop courage. To try to have, try to learn to treat each other fairly, with generosity and kindness. Maya Angelo I’ve never understood this quote more than I do today. Just like so many of you, I’m struggling with our current world. So much tension. So…
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