by admin | May 6, 2016 | Diversity in Workforce, Future of Work, Leadership Development
Google, known for having its finger on the pulse of the future, has an employee base that is only 2% black and 3% Hispanic. Apple, also known for building our future, has an employee base that is 70% male. These indisputable stats show that ethnic, racial and gender...
by admin | Apr 29, 2016 | Diversity in Workforce, Future of Work, Leadership Development
To tackle longstanding workplace discrimination, many future-focused organizations are adding diversity officers to their leadership teams. Why? Because the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission didn’t solve the ethnic, racial and gender imbalances prominent in the...
by admin | Dec 10, 2015 | Leadership Development, Purpose At Work
Definition of failure: Noun 1. lack of success. That’s all it is. Yet, society tends to make it much more that that, using terms like loser, wimp, disappointment, underachiever, and worse, to describe someone who has failed. If you’re going to be slapped with a label...
by admin | Sep 3, 2015 | Diversity in Workforce
Despite continued diversity efforts from the United States Government and organizations around the country, minorities are still largely underrepresented in the United States workforce. When looking at the statistics presented by “well meaning” companies, the picture...
by admin | Jul 23, 2015 | Diversity in Workforce, Future of Work, Leadership Development
What will make a future leader successful? I explored this in my piece, *Portrait of a Future Leader, published as part of Upwork’s Work: Reimagined series on Medium. Really getting down to the nitty-gritty of how major workforce trends will affect leaders was...
