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Andrés Tapia’s new book,
The Inclusion Paradox: The Obama Era
and the Transformation of Global Diversity,
available now!Going beyond best practices for developing strategies to
create the next generation of global Diversity & Inclusion.________________________________________________
It turns out that the warm, let’s-all-get-along connotations of inclusion are misleading. Achieving true inclusion is hard. Very hard. Harder than achieving awareness. Harder than achieving tolerance and sensitivity. Harder than diversity itself. Paradoxically, in many ways it’s become easier and more hip to talk about diversity and inclusion. Around the world corporations, not-for-profits, educational institutions, police departments, governments and the military are catching on that the workforce is changing in dramatic, unstoppable ways. They grasp that these changes raise myriad implications for how organizations hire, manage, develop, promote and reward their workers in ways that motivate them to stay and do their best ― and in so doing contribute to their organizations’ success. But how to do it? While diversity and inclusion best practices have been around for awhile, there’s a sense that they have run their course in achieving breakthrough. What does the next generation of global diversity work demand today? Read more
1st Blog: The Beginning of a Continuing Conversation
I remember the first time I was in a roomful of smart, passionate, insightful people. It was my first year of college. School was a great environment for not only learning knowledge from others but creating knowledge through debates and discussions and challenging one another about our experiences and worldviews well into the wee hours of the morning. My intent with this blog – The Inclusion Paradox, named after my upcoming book – is really to offer the virtual equivalent of that stimulating environment, where smart, committed, and insightful people gather to debate, discuss, offer new knowledge... Read More →
News Commentary: To Cover or Not to Cover? Burka Issue Resurfaces in Europe
by Susan Welch, Hewitt Research - It seems head coverings and the Western world don’t always get along. In the United Kingdom two years ago, isolated incidents of women wearing niqabs (head scarves) created controversies that grabbed global headlines: A lawyer was not allowed to represent her client while wearing the niqab because the judge could not hear her; a niqab-wearing teacher was dismissed from her school.1 For the past handful of years, officials in Belgium and the Netherlands have weighed various efforts to ban women from wearing burkas in public.2 Most recently, President Nicolas... Read More →
News Commentary: Sonia Sotomayor: Is She, Or Is She Not?
by Susan Welch, Hewitt Research - Following President Obama’s selection of Sonia Sotomayor to replace Justice David Souter on the U.S. Supreme Court, people of every color applauded. If she makes it to the Supreme Court, Sotomayor would be the first Hispanic to hold the office. Or would she? Shortly after she was nominated, Sotomayor’s detractors began pointing out that Benjamin N. Cardozo, a Supreme Court judge who served in the 1930s, was the first Hispanic justice, because both of his parents were Portuguese.1 As the U.S. media debated the issue, the Pew Hispanic Center stepped into the... Read More →
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