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Continue reading →: Apple CEO Tim Cook Says: “I’m Proud to Be Gay” #diversity #LGBT
Apple CEO Tim Cook came out today. Mum on his sexual orientation until he shared his truth in an essay for Bloomberg Businessweek, Cook said he considered it a good trade, his privacy for the chance to bring comfort or to inspire someone “to insist upon their equality.” Despite the…
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Continue reading →: Ebola: Discrimination For Life #diversity #inclusion #Ebola
The Ebola scare is no longer a thing happening somewhere else. It’s now a viable threat infecting Americans stateside, and politicians are drafting enforceable policies on how to stop the spread of the disease. Discrimination, I’m afraid, is inevitable. This time, however, there is nothing superficial about the issue. Skin…
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Continue reading →: Wait For Money, Respect? No #diversity #inclusion #gender #Microsoft
So Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is on the carpet this week for being so old-fashioned and out of touch the public literally could not stand it. Someone at a conference this week asked Nadella for his thoughts on what women should do if they are not comfortable asking for a pay…
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Continue reading →: Diversity’s Teachable Moments #diversity #inclusion #trainingPopular news items offer a familiar and accessible way to connect people and initiate tough conversations about race using touch points that many people are familiar with and have an opinion about.
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Continue reading →: Does Your Social Media Have a Diversity Problem? #diversity #race #socialmedia
Social media technologies are excellent tools to facilitate increased diversity in the workplace. The challenge is to prepare for and manage the challenges that may follow.
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Continue reading →: Domestic Violence in the Workplace #gender #diversity #inclusion
Former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice kicked off a huge poop storm when a video surfaced of him battering his then fiancé now wife Janay Palmer recently. It was quickly followed by a wave of similar news, including allegations against U.S. District Judge Mark Fuller who is said to…
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Continue reading →: Being Colorblind Is A Nice Theory #diversity #inclusion #millennials
One of my coworkers sent me an article titled Why Do Millennials Not Understand Racism? By Jamelle Bouie, of Slate. Any reasonable adult should understand the basic tenets of racism. Of course, that is just a headline, and not the complete truth. Millennials do understand racism. According to the research…
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Continue reading →: A Diverse Leadership Philosophy: Good For People, Good For Growth #inclusion #diversity #bias
It’s been a relatively quiet week on the diversity front – thank everything. There have been the usual discrimination, bias and gender rumblings, of course, but aside from NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell pledging to educate teams on domestic violence, and Michael Brown’s killer testifying before a grand jury, there haven’t…
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Continue reading →: You Gotta Make ‘Em Laugh #diversity #inclusion #humor
Humor may be one of the most perfect ways to teach people about diversity. For instance, take this video I ran across this week featuring a coterie of black kids from Ferguson, Missouri, discussing how fed up they are with racism. They’re cute, they’re sassy, some are just a few syllables away…
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