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Don’t
tolerate diversity ..............………..… exploit it!
For
us it’s about improving organisational performance and
stakeholder engagement. We don't think it's sufficient to
tolerate or respect diversity, as such mindsets severely limit the
potential diversity can offer to organisations. Our approach is
wholly about exploiting the opportunities that difference and variety
offers....not to be confused with exploiting people!
PRM’s
Working Definition
Diversity is about improving performance by capturing the value that difference
and variety can offer, for example via better innovation, creativity
and access to markets. When managed well, it improves
outcomes for an organisation's stakeholders through improved equality
and inclusion.
Even Rocket Scientists Agree ….
A human being is part of a whole,
called by us the ‘Universe’, a part limited in time and space.
He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something
separated from the rest – a kind of optical delusion of his
consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us,
restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few
persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this
prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living
creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Albert Einstein
...a more down to earth example…..
The Ant and the Elephant
One day in Asia an ant was walking in the forest when he fell down a
huge hole. He couldn't get out, He shouted, HELP. An
elephant came past, he put his trunk into the hole so the ant could
get out.
The next day, the elephant went in a tunnel and he couldn't get out.
The ant came, he could see in the dark. He led the elephant out.
Jonathan, age 8 (Jonathan was a pupil at
our local primary school)
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