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Continue reading →: Why Corporate America Could Use a White SaviorSo, about a month ago I blogged about the movie Hidden Figures. I’m still gratified at the amount of support the piece received, so I feel justified in revisiting this particular well for a different reason – whitewashing. Hollywood, rather the film industry in general, has always been a bit…
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Continue reading →: 6 Things Minorities Can Do to Stay Sane at WorkI think about happiness a lot. I don’t know if it’s on my mind because so many in the country and in the workplace seem to be unhappy these days, but how to be and stay happy gets a lot of my energy, and I don’t mind giving it. I…
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Continue reading →: There’s a Thin Line Between Business and PoliticsThose of you who saw the popular 1996 film “A Thin Line Between Love and Hate” starring Martin Lawrence and Lynn Whitfield will recognize the title reference. It was also a song by The Persuaders. I’m going to dig into the line between business and politics in this blog, but…
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Continue reading →: Snap Offers Small Diversity Nugget in Advance of IPOSnapchat is hot. Not like, beautiful, I mean it’s extremely popular. It has more than 161 million daily active users as of December 2016, and its parent company Snap is planning an IPO in March. In advance of that date, which is poised to be one of the biggest tech IPOs in…
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Continue reading →: Spontaneity is for Last Minute Gifts, Not DiversityPeriodically I plug the word diversity into Twitter search to see what comes up. I’ve found some great information that way. I’ve also found some things that gave me forehead wrinkles. For instance, I saw this tweet: leen @calucsonil diversity is amazing and representation is important but only when it’s SPONTANEOUS I clicked…
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Continue reading →: It’s the End of an Era. The Obamas Leave OfficeIt’s gloomy, it’s overcast, it’s inauguration day. I gotta say, I’m sad. I watched on CNN as the Obamas left the White House for the last time, and it truly felt like the end of an era. Not just because I have no idea what the next four years will…
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Continue reading →: Sometimes Women Cry at Work. Get Over ItIn December 2016, Harvard Business Review ran a fabulous article by David G. Smith and W. Brad Johnson titled, “Men Can Improve How They Mentor Women. Here’s How.” I loved it. It was straight forward, honest, and stuffed with scientific data and analysis that promotes one fabulous conclusion: More men…
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Continue reading →: Is Your Workplace Hiding Talent?Spoiler alert: If you haven’t seen Hidden Figures yet, you may want to wait to read this. Oh, heck. Read it anyway. It’s so good you may not mind a peek behind the curtain. I saw Hidden Figures last week. I expected it to be good, and it was. Taraji…
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Continue reading →: Dropbox Learns – Painfully – One Twitter Snafu, and You’re ToastMedia can be tricky. Especially social media. One poorly written sentence, ill-timed tweet or poor photo choice, and you’ll end up with your corporate image in a sling. Ask cloud storage company Dropbox. They know. Poor Dropbox. When they released their diversity numbers earlier this week, they meant well, really…
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