Diversity and inclusion are all the rage. A Google search for the combined terms yields 224,000,000 results. Google’s Scholarly articles for 2018 alone yield about 23,000 results. With all this attention being paid to the topic, one must wonder, “Why we have not yet solved the problems of having people feel excluded from various spheres of their lives simply because they differ from the majority of those being natured and nurtured in the world?”
The answer may reside in the truth that we may be talk too much about the problem and doing too little to actually include the entire continuity of our communities.
Glen Llopis, a Cuban-American entrepreneur, bestselling author, speaker, senior advisor to Fortune 500 companies and organizations in many workspaces, and contributor to Forbes and Entrepreneur magazines thinks there are five ways to get along farther faster toward talking less and doing more. Llopis handful of suggestions are:
- Move diversity and inclusion out of human resources.
- Know what opportunity diversity and inclusion solves for.
- Sole for respect and not recognition.
- Think mosaic not melting pot.
- Move people to the center of your organization’s growth strategy.
To learn more details about how these five things might help you and your enterprise thrive better in our shrinking global world, read his article in Forbes.
In the meantime, send me an answer to this question: What are you doing to include a more diverse group of people in your personal and business spheres?