The Diversity Blog
Without This, Your Diversity Strategy Doesn’t Matter
Intent is the key to results. In business, intent means knowing your business model. It means knowing what the key ingredients of your business are and knowing exactly how you make money. Intentional managers look beyond the short-term quarterly goals. Instead, they...
Using the Recruiting Process to Create a Diverse Workforce
Recruitment is an integral part of Diversity Management, but it’s easy to mess up the recruiting process. Companies often use recruiting to meet artificial needs: “We need more people of color, so we’ll recruit a person of color.” Instead, recruitment needs to be...
Completing the Puzzle: Measuring Diversity by Results
The first four R’s – recruitment, retention, representation, and reputation – are the traditional aspects of diversity management. Just about every organization is working on these, either singularly or collectively. On their own, none of these R’s get you the outcome...
Scott Page’s Timeless Formulas For Diversity’s Success
At this point, The Difference is seven years old, but it is still as relevant as ever. That’s because Scott Page’s message is timeless: the importance of a rational, logical, value-driven approach to diversity (and diversity management). According to Page, diversity...
Simple Leadership: To Lead, You Must Tell Stories
Leadership is a simple activity – but “simple” does not mean “easy.” As Chip Heath, professor of organizational behavior at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, says, “effective leaders are masters of simplicity.” What he means is that leaders are good at...
How Silicon Valley Can Foster Diversity
Silicon Valley has a diversity problem. Everyone has heard the numbers: 83 percent of Google employees are male, and 91 percent are white or Asian. Similarly, about 69 percent of Facebook employees are male, and 91 percent are once again Asian or white. Twitter,...
Culture & Innovation – Pt II
I’m also a major proponent of using management as a catalyst for producing organizational success. When the remaining questions, as we move deeper into the 21st-century is, what problem was management. as we know it, designed to solve? Gary Hamel suggests that...
Culture & Innovation – Pt I
I have long contended that innovation lies at the intersection of creativity and diversity. My argument is that to get real innovation in an organization requires a well managed, diverse team of people, with the freedom to try new ideas and develop new ways of doing...
Managing Culture & Diversity in the Modern Workplace
Even before the notion of “the global marketplace” became a buzzword, banking organizations of all varieties understood and recognized the role of culture and diversity in doing business overseas. But culture isn’t just an international phenomenon, nor is it one...
How Can Shared Learning Experiences Benefit Your Business?
Many companies have used shared learning experiences in the past, but it’s not as popular as it used to be. I think this is a mistake. Shared learning experiences can help create a common awareness of what is important between workers while at the same time helping to...