January 26th, 2010
A lot of leaders, organizations and communities say the right things about diversity and inclusion today. Unfortunately (at least from my perspective) that is about as far as it goes. I see very few organizations and very few communities that are actually doing anything of substance regarding diversity and inclusion. I think that a great [Read More…]
January 25th, 2010
Because of my tree-hugging, dirt-workshipping ways, people tend to assume that I am a liberal / progressive / Democrat. I no longer know what any of those words mean, and maybe more importantly I no longer care. I do know that they are connected to non-stop efforts to raise money and win elections, which I [Read More…]
January 22nd, 2010
Slidedeck for session at the CHRA 2010 HR Conference: zen and the art of inclusion View more presentations from Joe Gerstandt.
January 21st, 2010
I heart Twitter. I joined Twitter 686 days ago and will soon be celebrating two years of Twitterhood. I love it madly. I do not think that Twitter is for everyone, but if you “do not get Twitter”, I think that you need to spend some time there in order to fully understand it before [Read More…]
January 18th, 2010
Had great conversations with a couple of people I am terribly fond of this morning and I am left thinking about organizational and community boundaries. All organizations and communities have boundaries and send messages about who is welcome inside those boundaries and who is not. Some of this is communicated through very explicit messages, but [Read More…]
January 13th, 2010
Wonderful five minute video I stumbled across on Chris Brogans site: Also, check out EightPrinciples.com Be Good to Each Other.
January 11th, 2010
There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance. That principle is contempt prior to investigation. -Herbert Spencer
January 8th, 2010
The biggest problem with stereotypes? We think they just influence other people. Most of us think we are not influenced by them in anyway…that is the biggest problem with stereotypes. If we are going to do a better of job of reducing the impact of stereotypes we are going to have to understand them better. [Read More…]
January 7th, 2010
My dear friend and fellow freak flag flier, Mary Schaefer and I, do some occasional joint Q and A posts and her most recent question for us to answer is this: What are you most excited about for this coming year? To tell the truth, there are a lot of things I am excited about. [Read More…]
January 6th, 2010
January is the jump off. It is time to put down the new toys and get back to work. We had wonderful holidays, and after a very busy fall with lots of travel it was nice to have some serious down time. Santa was good to me and maybe too good to our girls as [Read More…]