Posted in diversity on Oct 26th, 2009
I have heard discussions about “diversity of thought” as a goal in putting together productive, highly-functioning, multi-perspective groups. I agree in theory, however, there are times when it might be more productive to filter certain destructive brands of thought out of conversations. Over the past several years, I have observed many a quick downward spiral [...]
Posted in diversity on Oct 20th, 2009
I spent the last couple of days in Atlanta, GA at the Reaching Out MBA Conference. Reaching Out is a national MBA conference for LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans-gender) students. The programming was impressive. The conference is complete with workshops, key note speakers and a career fair. The most amazing part…it is student organized [...]
Posted in diversity, leveraging difference on Oct 6th, 2009
I was recently dining with a colleague and noticed that he is left handed. We had a discussion about this characteristic and how challenging it was for him growing up left-handed. Then, he explained to me, there were no left-handed scissors or left-handed spiral notebooks for example. One simply had to make do and learn [...]
