by James O. Rodgers | Jun 24, 2022 | Organizational Culture
Change efforts include mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, rightsizing, or any of the many strategic focus initiatives like six-sigma, innovation, performance enhancement, and learning organization. If you accept the fact that diversity management also involves...
by James O. Rodgers | May 31, 2022 | Diversity Management
A recent movie starring Richard Dreyfus and Bill Murray tells the story of a man desperately trying to be included as a member of his psychiatrist’s family. Whenever the doctor attempted to exclude him, his family would respond by asking, “What about...
by James O. Rodgers | Jul 31, 2019 | Deliberate Diversity
Diversity refers to the broad mix of people currently or soon to be a part of your organization. It exists whenever you encounter anyone who has a view of the world, or “paradigm,” different from your own. Managing Diversity is a deliberate effort to create a work...
by James O. Rodgers | Jul 31, 2019 | Management Skills for Leaders
“No organization, team, or individual mission has ever failed for lack of a good strategy. They fail for lack of execution.” Moving people from knowing to doing is a critical and tough task. As facilitators, it is our role to not only bring a group to consensus about...
by James O. Rodgers | Jul 31, 2019 | Deliberate Diversity
Before I start, let me acknowledge that I will probably offend a lot of people with this article. That’s because a lot of people have used diversity as a means to promote or further their personal or group agenda. I don’t mean to distract from those agendas. Others...
