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I believe that gender, racial, geographic, and cultural diversity are important to every organization and play a significant role in business growth. It is all about creating an inclusive environment, accepting of every individual’s differences, allowing all employees to achieve their full potential and as a result allowing your business to ...
It is important for corporations to step up and advocate for diversity and tolerance on a public platform. A great example of this is Nike’s support of American football quarterback and rights campaigner Colin Kaepernick. More than a marketing exercise, it showed the world that one of America’s best-known corporations was willing to stand ...
Use data to understand where you need to focus and make sure there is leadership commitment to and accountability for inclusion and diversity. Help leaders understand and counter how unconscious biases can distort their decision-making, including those bedded in gender stereotypes and perceptions that often hold women back.
To address these issues, many brands and advertisers are seeking greater diversity in their workforce and are looking to their agencies to provide it, with clear policies to support that goal. These initiatives create a virtuous circle where diverse content attracts diverse creators who, in turn, create more diverse content.
Diversity is also important on a wider scale, beyond the company level. For example, LGBT+ inclusion can be linked to higher levels of business success at a city level. LGBT+ cities are best placed to develop their global economic competitiveness.
The Black Lives Matter protests and the #MeToo movement have shed light on the lack of racial and gender diversity in the workplace. The state of diversity in the newsroom is no exception: according to a 2016 Pew Research Center analysis, just 23% of newsroom employees were people of colour, while 61% of newsroom employees were men.
But biodiversity – the diversity within species, between species and of ecosystems – is declining globally, faster than at any other time in human history. The world’s 7.6 billion people represent just 0.01% of all living things by weight, but humanity has caused the loss of 83% of all wild mammals and half of all plants.
Diversity is not an innovation problem. We largely know what works. It’s an execution problem, a cultural problem and a scaling problem. Verbal commitments are easy and rife. Accountability and performance are more important and less common.
For all the reasons to make cultural institutions more diverse, an underappreciated one is that having a diverse workforce yields better results. That is the conclusion professor Scott Page identifies in his book The Diversity Bonus: How Great Teams Pay Off. When we think of diversity, we typically think of “identity diversity” - who we are.
Cybersecurity is quickly becoming one of the most important industries to safeguard our democratic values. The demand for cybersecurity professionals is rising globally, as cyberattacks are increasing in scale and severity. Here are multiple reasons why diversity and inclusion can solve the acute talent shortage in the industry.