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Continue reading →: DACA: Dreamers Deferred?I can’t imagine fleeing from my home in terror. Nor can I fathom being forced to acclimate to a completely new environment, feeling that the only way to provide for my family, to ensure my children’s survival, is to uproot them from all that’s familiar. That is an immigrant’s tale,…
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Continue reading →: Ladies, There’s More Than One Way to Beat Sexism.So, I was watching the movie Hidden Figures, again. I love that film. It’s so, relevant. I even blogged about it. It’s technically an homage to events that happened in the early 1960s. But its triumvirate of smart, embattled women struggling to get their due in the workplace could be…
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Continue reading →: No One Really Wants To Talk About DiversityDiversity is a complicated word. It always has been. But lately, this buzzword has taken on a whole new luster. By turns shiny and positive, and then in practically the same breath, tarnished and chipped, diversity is an idea, a construct, that I would venture to say few people actually…
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Continue reading →: President Trump, Global Business Leaders Have SpokenThere’s nothing worse than a bad leader. Have I said that before? I’m pretty sure I have. But it’s a perennial truth. Any working person knows it firsthand. There’s nothing worse than a bad leader. But when you have a good one. Well. Let’s just say following is not only…
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Continue reading →: Google Was Right to Fire James DamoreIf you didn’t know that Google recently fired senior engineer James Damore after his controversial diversity manifesto went viral, now you do. It didn’t bother me that it happened. That Damore wrote those things, or felt a certain way. I live in the world. I know there are people who…
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Continue reading →: Money, Confidence and Women Who WorkThere are certain things I just won’t do to make a dollar. I don’t even know what all those things are. I haven’t had to find out. But one thing, right now, that I utterly refuse to do is work for peanuts out of fear or insecurity. My professional and…
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Continue reading →: Wait, I Thought It Was Okay to Work from HomeMy biggest beef with diversity in the workplace is that people say things they don’t mean. They do things for effect, because they think they should, or because they feel pressure to act and appear a certain way. But at the end of the day, if you don’t believe in…
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Continue reading →: Deloitte Says to Promote Inclusion It will Dismantle Its ERGsDeloitte employees who are currently participating in any of its workplace affinity groups will need to make other plans. The company plans to phase out the groups – also known as employee resource groups – many in the next 18 months. Instead, employees will be able to join inclusion councils.…
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Continue reading →: 3 Ways a Lack of Thought Diversity Hurts CompaniesDiversity of thought is the antithesis of groupthink. It spits in the face of likeminded-ness. Okay, that was harsh, but you know what I mean. Diversity of thought welcomes ideation, innovation, creativity. It takes the average company’s blind and lazy adherence to the status quo and wrings its neck, and…
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