And with it, a chance for men who give a damn to show up better than last time. Do you remember the Me Too movement? With the partial release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, we are heading toward a similar cultural reckoning. And this time, I hope that men across the country learn enough about […]
The President of the U.S. recently asserted that the 1964 Civil Rights movement caused white Americans to be “very badly treated” and become “real victims of discrimination.” This claim aligns with the ongoing political narrative that encourages white men in the workplace to sue employers over perceived discrimination. This narrative is not new, though the
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Playing football was one of the few things I was good at in high school. Through sheer luck, the high school I attended in suburban Northern Virginia had a good football program. In the four years of my high school career, we were either in or just missed making the regional playoffs. Yet, as good
Co-written by Jim Morris and Richard Schaeff As a group, white men are not only unsupportive of DEI; they are at the vanguard of its most vocal and angry opponents. We and a small cadre of other white male colleagues have been working on engaging white men in DEI for years, even decades.[1] But based
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In a Nutshell…We must stop treating DEI as a stand-alone initiative. It’s not, and it was never meant to be. DEI is part of the DNA of the best workplaces in the U.S., but for the reasons we will describe here, its role as a core success factor has been lost in many cases. Meanwhile,
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Note: In this context, a double-blind is a situation in which an organization is confronted with two conflicting expectations or demands, and fulfilling one of these expectations makes it difficult or impossible to fulfill the other. THE SITUATION… Employers today face a workplace challenge that can threaten their success or fuel it: How to navigate
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Creating Equity is Good for People and Business. The Five Factors of Equity What does it look like when someone is “treated equitably” at work? How does an organization make equity happen? Also, what is equity, and how is it different from equality? I got tired of not having a good answer to these questions
Hardly anyone disagrees that equity is a good thing; the question is how to make it real in the workplace and what leaders need to do to ensure it is happening. What’s your definition of equity? Ours is: Equity (noun): The policy and practice of accounting for the differences in each individual’s starting point when
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Dear Straight White Male Colleagues, Are you clear on your role in supporting DEI in your organizations? The data says “no,” but that should come as no surprise to most of you; you’ve been telling us for years many of you neither feel invited nor supported to be involved in DEI within your organizations. DEI
Three ideas to help CIS, White Leaders, and Board Members succeed when it comes to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion “Fish did not discover water. In fact, because they are completely immersed in it, they live unaware of its existence. Similarly, when a conduct becomes normalized by a dominant cultural environment, it becomes invisible.” Marshall McLuhan
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