Critical Success The Importance of Diversity

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Uploaded by on May 30, 2009

Listening to Boortz the other day as he gave his commencement speech to young men and women I was moved to speak. And so, I'm speaking.

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  • and as for appeling to specific groups, using diversity to appeal to ppl is simply a vehicle. diversity may icebreak to certain groups but it can also alienate. asian markets get few customers outside the asian community but i guarantee you every one of them have shopped at walmart as well.

  • You completely misunderstand Diversity and the mission it implies in those corporate institutions (IBM, Coke, Oracle), that employ it. They fully understand that Diversity in an increasing global economic environment is critical to market expansion and continued success. It's not diversity when you encounter a Korean store with no English, or seeming air at the front door that implies asians only. Just as executives said at one of our major diversity events ...

  • we're not going to sweat their ANTI-DIVERSITY mind-set because the simple fact of the matter is if they don't decide to embrace a wider market, then they will simply wither and die. Expanding world markets require catering to DIVERSITY. If you don't change, you die. You may subsist in the short term, in fact you may do quite well, but expansion will be denied you, and yes, you will die.

  • Over years of contracting, the teams i've hired of mexican decent whip fucking laps around any and all teams of american decent I've hired. those mexican teams would be smart not to be diverse to any group that doesnt perform better than they do. diversity in and of itself is pointless. high performance in and of its self will always turn a profit.

  • This is a simple example that's not just isolated to construction. You see the same thing in burger joints.  This goes beyond our discussion of diversities importance to our particular DIVERSE American culture and our drive towards mediocrity and materialism. Still, through the utilization of critical thinking skills, and the illumination and elevation of good 'ole American work ethics, our lackadaisical trending can be turned around.

  • Different mindsets and experience definetly add but you can get by very without em. in my construction business, competence of work and being able to get it done in a timely manner comes before all, and my business tends to become diverse anyway when i concentrate only on performance. diversity can help but is NOT necessary to grown your bottomline.

  • You certainly can get by with them. Each line of business comes with different factors. In construction what you call out definitely applies. Diversity is not necessary to grow your bottom line TODAY. But who's to say tomorrow? Who's to say when you expand your market? Who's to say what impact differing cultures may have on the construction industry in the decades to come. Perspective is critical to ensuring growth. Utilize it and step out of the crowd.

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  • You heard Boortz words, but missed the meaning, I think. Don't think he'd disagree with much you say here.

  • A well stated statement you made.

  • When you understand a culture, you understand what motivates a person, you clarify the incentives that increase production as well as purchasing need. You do yourself a great disservice if you isolate yourself to just one rote way of doing things. Life is to varied and too complex to limit yourself to this understanding. It's pretty common, and is exactly what GM and Detroit did when Demming came out with his rules of Operational Management. The Japanese took his American rules ... and ...?

  • Never said that. The essentials speak to a core work ethic. That's what speak to when defining aggressive teams on high intensity IT projects. I see your perspective and understand it quite clearly. I utilize it. However, you're neglecting to see mine. We call this context filters. I would ask you to remove your filters and consider my perspective for a moment. Culture is more than just different ways of doing things. Culture defines people.

  • sorry dont have experience typing a statement more than one post long youll have to read my statement from bottom up

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