“Diversity is a very popular business topic today while the negative side of diversity, discrimination, remains a touchy and sensitive topic. Even in organisations which follow the letter of the law in terms of not discriminating against any individuals, it is common for people to show prejudice and bias...Have the courage to stand out from your colleagues by being very open to and comfortable with all kinds of diversity amongst your colleagues and stakeholders. When you sense someone is being ignored or marginalized spend time with them and bring them into discussions encouraging them to speak up as needed.”
Source: Secrets of Success at Work: 50 Techniques to Excel: Teach Yourself
“Orchestrating a diversified team can indeed enhance the higher level of harmony.”
Source: Digital Agility: The Rocky Road from Doing Agile to Being Agile
“Diversity, rather than cohesiveness, is the new passion, and it pits us against each other for “rights.”
Source: Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future
“It is impossible to credit one gender with every good and perfect gift without slighting the other. That’s what extreme diversity does to us.”
Source: Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future
“time does stop sometimes, you see everyone passing by, following their destiny and the destination it is leading, and you conclude its better where you are then moving again....often history repeats itself before it changes.....”
“Diversity of thought is in demand, for boosting collective creativity and harnessing collective wisdom.”
Source: Thinkingaire: 100 Game Changing Digital Mindsets to Compete for the Future
“If you don't have a plan for inclusivity your plan is to be exclusive.”
“Our greatest power as nations and individuals is not the ability
to employ assault weapons, suicide bombers, and drones
to destroy each other. The greater more creative powers
with which we may arm ourselves are grace and compassion
sufficient enough to love and save each other.”
Source: Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays
“In diversity is life and where there's life there's hope, was the general sum of his creed, a modest one to be sure.”
Source: The Word for World is Forest
“We celebrate the differences among us, even that which we cannot reconcile, not in denial of the absolute, but in the gift of humility that those differences require of us. Without denying our differences, we no longer allow them to categorize or divide us. It is in the diversity that the image of God is most fully reflected in and through us.”
Source: Living Christ Together: Reflections On The Missional Life