December 6th, 2011
I recently took our girls, pictured above in their Halloween finest, to see the new Muppet movie. They enjoyed it and I was not miserable. It was a fine movie, nice, funny, and not too cheesy…and I very much enjoy doing things that the girls get excited about. When I posted something on Twitter about [Read More…]
November 30th, 2011
If I thought I could get away with it, I would probably call myself a sweetness consultant. I have written about sweetness before, I think it is a wonderful analogy for pursuing the creative potential that exists where things that are different from each other intersect…whether they be people, or ideas, or practices…or atoms. This [Read More…]
November 22nd, 2011
The 2011 SHRM Leadership Conference was my last conference for the year, and it was a good note to end on. It proved to be a nice opportunity to see friends that are involved in some of the many things that SHRM does. I also had the opportunity to present on cognitive diversity, which has [Read More…]
November 16th, 2011
This is a slightly modified version of a post I published earlier this year…seemed timely with SHRM Leadership this week. A lot of my work happens with and around HR folks…and that means that a lot of it happens with and around SHRM. I have attended and presented for a number of SHRM events, local, [Read More…]
November 2nd, 2011
I am in the Dallas-Fort Worth area today for HRSouthwest and this morning I presented a session called “this is your brain on diversity.” This is a session where I take some significant insights from the fields of neuroscience and social psychology and consider what they mean to how we do diversity and inclusion work [Read More…]
October 24th, 2011
1971 called. It wants its conversation back. All this talk about “talent.” Finding it, measuring it, acquiring it, managing it, yada, yada, yada. Talent is becoming irrelevant. Okay, I got carried away…it’s not irrelevant. But it is much less relevant than it used to be. For starters, I do not think that our approach to [Read More…]
October 14th, 2011
I have over the past few weeks found myself engaged in a number of open conversations with primarily HR folks about diversity and inclusion. I love it that I continue to find robust conversations involving lots of people in different roles around this set of issues. I think that there is a growing awareness that [Read More…]
October 12th, 2011
Difference is a part of any and all social interactions. You may pay attention to it, you may ignore it, but it is there. All groups, all conversations, all interactions, all relationships contain difference…it is one of the basic building blocks of everything social. How the people involved deal with their shared difference is a [Read More…]
October 7th, 2011
A story… One evening, a lady walking her dog comes upon a man searching the ground under a street light. The passerby asks the man what he is doing. “I’m looking for my lost keys,” says the man searching the ground. “I dropped them on my way home.” The passerby offers to help search for [Read More…]
September 21st, 2011
Once upon a time… I facilitated a half day workshop for the leadership team of a large urban school district; there was about 100 people involved. A couple of weeks prior to this workshop I had asked them to evaluate themselves regarding how inclusive they were of people that were of different genders, race, ethnicity, [Read More…]