The Diversity Blog

Diversity, Dignity, Culture & Spirit I want to start a dialogue about seemingly unrelated matter that I find is at the core of every human interaction. Whether it’s business relations, family relations, social relations, community, faith community, associations,...

Create Deliberate Diversity By Following These 7 Steps – Part 2 of 2 Deliberate Diversity™ is a management discipline with a purpose, a process and a payoff. It is where diversity and management skills intersect and is designed to produce better business results. For...

Diversity in Knowledge and the 4 Forms of “Knowing” Optimal operational efficiency and innovation is achieved when an organization draws from the widest and deepest knowledge base possible. In order to do this, its important to recognize the four categories of things...

How to Measure Diversity Effectiveness to Establish the Right Diversity Mix Sometimes companies learn to understand the value of diversity management by accident. Some of the most successful products that have been introduced in the last ten years are the the result...

Why Vision is a Critical Piece of Diversity Crafting a vision for a Deliberate Diversity project comes down to answering two questions: First, what would you like to see happen as a result of implementing the project and second, how will you know if you have been...

Don’t Succeed by Accident – Succeed on Purpose Deliberate Diversity™ is based on a principle that has been proven time and time again: a diverse group of people will always come up with a better solution than any one expert in any particular discipline.Most businesses...

4 Challenges You May Face Implementing Deliberate Diversity™, and How to Overcome Them Deliberate Diversity™ is a concept that can be applied to open the door to world-class results. That said, like any new idea, sometimes we run into challenges as we go about putting...

Driving Diversity: Are You Up to the Job? If the diversity movement is going to enter a new, results-oriented era, then the movement is going to need a new type of leader. But what does that leader look like? The new leaders of the diversity movement must have two...

What’s the Hardest Part of Implementing Deliberate Diversity™? Humans are subject to our natural tendencies. We often operate on autopilot. We don’t think about what drives our thinking or influences our opinions. We just go with the unexamined flow. We carry...

Retention: Empowering Your Employees to Stay and be Happy Retention is part of the diversity equation. It’s not just about getting people: it’s also about how you keep them.Without retention, hiring is a vicious cycle. If you hire people who don’t fit, you might think...