Diversity, Inclusion and Culture: Steps for Building Great Teams

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The fundamental contradiction of the Diversity Religion:

- There are no differences between different races and sexes.

- It is good for business to recruit more minorities because they bring different perspectives (they think differently).

Three of the four links that "make the business case for diversity" are based on the same McKinsey study that explicitly states that "correlation does not imply causation". Could it simply be that only profitable companies can afford to worry about the skin color make-up of its workforce?

The author also admits that she joined an all-male team with a great culture, but that doesn't seem to have made her pause in her quest to impose her own aesthetical preferences as manager.

Can you please explain the term "Diversity Religion"?

I find it reminiscent of a religion in that adherents subscribe to certain ideals that can not be argued about ("it's the right thing to do" as the author says). My amateur psychologist analysis is that people need a higher cause, and in the absence of traditional religions they instead join political movements such as this one.

I too believe our brains are hardwired to be receptive to certain power structures/belief systems. Science can be a religion-- you be a zealot about anything if you try.

Global warming, true or not has all of the hallmarks of a religion-- which is why I think generally, religious folks aren't as receptive to the idea-- that need of theirs is already filled.

Didn't the pope talk about global warming?

Diversity is not a political movement as I understand it. How did you come to that conclusion?

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