Building on the Promise of Diversity

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CURRENT STATUS OF THE DIVERSITY FIELD

JUST PLAIN STUCK

MORE THAN A DECADE AGO, I wrote that “the traditional approach to diversity inevitably creates a cycle of crisis, problem recognition, action, great expectations, disappointment, dormancy, and renewed crisis.”¹ At the time, I was thinking mostly of managers responsible for implementing affirmative action in their organization. I knew that many of them felt they were going around in ...