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 | 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...
by James O. Rodgers | Jul 31, 2019 | Deliberate Diversity
Often, diversity is simply defined as a social issue. When most people hear the word “diversity” they immediately think of affirmative action, the Equal Opportunities Commission or gender equality. We hear others talk about diversity and we think to ourselves, “These...
by James O. Rodgers | Jul 31, 2019 | Deliberate Diversity
I learned very early on in my career that business people face two kinds of issues: problems and facts of life. Problems are solvable. As business people, we attack them. We invent solutions and follow through by executing a plan of action. Facts of life, on the other...
by James O. Rodgers | Jul 31, 2019 | Deliberate Diversity
Most people think of diversity management as a fancy term for analyzing and managing the demographic makeup of a company. This is an outdated approach to thinking about diversity. Instead, we need to think about diversity management as a new technology that can help...
by James O. Rodgers | Jul 31, 2019 | Deliberate Diversity
I encourage people to use, as a measure of success in all diversity work, the same measures that are used for business in general. A quality product, delivered on time, is always the measure in manufacturing. These are the same measures we look at when we talk about...
