December 17, 2012
Discover the top five themes that emergered from the diversity and inclusion conversation this year.
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December 10, 2012
Dear Diversity and Inclusion Leaders:
In my work as president of Diversity Best Practices, I travel around the country a lot—meeting with members, consulting, giving speeches. While my engagements often take me to the usual big cities—New York City; Boston; Washington, D.C.; San Francisco—increasingly my work is pulling me to second-tier towns. Like most people, I had preconceived ideas about our...
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December 4, 2012
Preparing Youth for Their Defining Diversity Moment
Defining diversity moments often happen when they’re least expected. For Elizabeth Williams-Riley, the newly appointed president and CEO of the American Conference on Diversity (ACD), it happened when she was a teenager living in Orlando, Fla. Her mother encouraged her to enter the Miss Pathfinder pageant. Williams-Riley initially balked at the...
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November 20, 2012
By Howie Schaffer, Vice President, Cook Ross Inc.
A Native American man with long braids doesn't want a female nurse to touch his hair. A Bosnian son won’t tell his mother that she faces a terminal illness. In the absence of his older brother, a Chinese second eldest son is paralyzed in making an amputation decision for his mother. A Mexican male patient has to choose between eating healthier or...
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November 12, 2012
Regardless of one’s political preferences, from a historical perspective, the first time Barack Obama was elected president was momentous. The second time marks actual culture change. If in 2008 the point was tipping, in 2012 the point has tipped.
A few years ago, as the U.S.’s first Black president began his maiden term, I published my book, The Inclusion Paradox: The Obama Era and the...
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November 6, 2012
Making a Way for Military Veterans in the Workplace
Military veterans between the ages of 18 and 64 account for 9.1 million of the U.S. workforce, yet for many the transition from combat to corporate America has been challenging. The process is equally complex for companies, as they struggle to identify successful methods to reintegrate former servicemen and women into the workplace.
U.S. Navy...
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October 19, 2012
Half of people in the workplace are introverts. Not only are they afflicted by extroverted norms, says clinical psychologist Laurie Helgoe, they may be so acculturated that they also promote them—criticizing themselves and others for the very behaviors that work best for them. The following research findings can help correct this situation so that both introverts and extroverts are able to work...
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