The term ‘token” has been used for many years to describe a person hired to fill a racial quota. It is time to put that idea to rest and with it we should also retire the term token. Perhaps in the past, the idea of diversity was confused with quotas. That confusion led to a [...]
Category Archives: Diversity and Leadership
The Coast Guard Can Teach Your Company Something About Diversity
No employer can guarantee that insensitive comments or acts will not happen in the workplace. But what they can do is guarantee that when something insensitive or offensive occurs it is addressed appropriately. Recently Someone at U.S. Coast Guard Academy placed a noose in an African-American Cadet’s belongings. The cadet reported the incident to the [...]
Everything I need to know about success, I learned from my Grandma Billie, Part II
Billie’s Lesson: Success is individually defined but universally obvious.
If Billie were here she would tell you that you have to write your own definition of success. When she was a child she decided that she wanted to dance. She was not supposed to be able to become a dancer at the time because [...]
