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Continue reading →: Why So Shocked About Sterling’s Comments? #diversity #NBA #LAClippers #racism
I would like to state for the record that I think most of the people who are vocally professing their “disgust” for Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling are being overly dramatic. Unless I’m to believe that his comments are sincerely shocking to most rather than just irritating and sad?…
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Continue reading →: The Forum on Workplace #Inclusion: We Fuel Change #diversity
Check out this session I led at the annual Forum for Workplace Inclusion conference. My Q&A about 50 minutes in is funny. It was my first time on a teleprompter – I prefer live TV! Fabulous experience working with these folks: Mary-Frances Winters, Theresa J. Rothausen-Vange, Sam Grant, Stephen Frost and Steve Humerickhouse…
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Continue reading →: Give Others’ Opinions Time to Evolve
I met this guy on the train this week. I’m always meeting somebody on a train, I know. But this guy was fabulously well-dressed, so I surreptitiously checked him out. Not to judge, but to admire. Anyway, we got to talking. He works in the mailroom for one of the…
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Continue reading →: Ladies, Let’s Talk About Cash #payequity #diversity #money #gender #discrimination
I often wonder whether it was the rich or the poor who first gave money a bad name. The rich would have reason to do so because, duh, they want to remain rich. Thus, poo pooing money would make it seem less enticing for those who might have the resources…
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Continue reading →: The High That Comes From Being Low…#Lupita #diversity #films #beauty
Congrats to Lupita Nyong’o for becoming Lancôme’s first Black spokesperson. The world should celebrate black beauty. It is as common as any other kind, after all. And congrats to Lupita for riding a very elegant magic carpet of success all the way to the top. I’m not sure there was…
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Continue reading →: New Dad Wants Time Off? Sacrilege
Okay, I relish the opportunity to tackle this topic because it’s not terribly often the media even discusses paternity leave – maybe because dad’s don’t take it? – but it seems former NFL quarterback turned sport announcer Boomer Esiason thinks New York Mets second baseman Daniel Murphy was out of order…
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Continue reading →: Moderator? Face Maker #diversity #inclusion #change
Oh, you want me to moderate your panel on “We Fuel Change” at the 2014 Forum on Workplace Inclusion? You want me to ask the tough questions, challenge the panelists to illicit responses that will effectively shake up the status quo, and promote some different action in the workplace? No…
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Continue reading →: Cocktails, Surrounded by Men, Yep, It’s #TBT
Me at another #CLOsym. Maybe 2013? 2012? Jewels were hella sparkly up close, but not big enough in pics…
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