CHAPTER TWOCan You Tell Me What Diversity Isn’t?
Dear Diversity Diva:
Tell it like it is instead of using all this hippie, feel good, P.C. stuff called diversity. Pure and simple, diversity is about quotas and hiring goals, isn’t it?
Signed,Quoting Quotas and Galled About Goals
Diversity Is Not Just About Numbers
One of the biggest fallacies about diversity is that it’s all about the numbers. After all, if you have enough discernible difference in a room, then you have diversity, right? If, for example, there is a work meeting where there are twenty-one executives, and one executive is Hispanic and two are female, is the meeting diverse? Does your answer change if the company has its headquarters in San Antonio, Texas, or if the company is a ...
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