How Unconscious Bias Traning Can Go Wrong

By | Cultural Intelligence, Diversity, diversity and inclusion, unconscious bias

A senior leader at a high tech company called and said, “Simma, I just spent an enormous amount of money for a training program about unconscious bias. It was very well received and people are still talking about how much they liked it,” he said. “However, nothing changed.” The demographics stayed the same, people of color, women, and LGBT people…

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Breaking Windows In The Name Of Eric Garner Is Insulting To His Memory

By | Demonstration for Eric Garner, Eric Garner

Protest organizers in Oakland didn’t want to stop people from looting because they didn’t want “restrict people’s freedom of expression.” I’m not going to use the looting and destruction as an excuse to negate the reason for the protest like I’ve seen some people do. But I support arresting people who do loot, and I support organizers of demonstrations doing…

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The CEO's Uber Diversity Dilemma

By | Diversity, Emil Michael, inclusion, Sarah Lacey, Travis Kalanick, Uber

The CEO’s Uber Diversity Dilemma   Uber executive, Emil Michael suggested at a dinner party attended by people like Arianna Huffington and Kara Swisher that Uber would pay a million dollars to hire researchers to dig up dirt on journalists who wrote negative stories about Uber. “They’d look into your personal lives, your families,’ and give the media a taste of…

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