Diversity: Fueling the next Generation of Innovative Solutions
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Diversity: Fueling the NextDiversity: Fueling the Next
Generation of Innovative SolutionsGeneration of Innovative Solutions
Booz| Allen| Hamilton
Dayton Marriot Hotel
November 11, 2011
“Change Takes Courage”
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Thank you for your ServiceThank you for your Service
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Who is Lyman Montgomery & Who Cares?Who is Lyman Montgomery & Who Cares?
President, Lyman Montgomery Success
Network
HR and Diversity professional with over
twenty years of experience
Published author of destined bestseller
book, Shattered Masks: 7 Masks We Wear
Child Sexual Rape Survivor
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Targeted OutcomesTargeted Outcomes
Understand historic and present views of diversity,
inclusion and multiculturalism;
Identify leading causes of innovation stagnation
and diversity aversion;
Examine several diverse contributors to innovation
and science;
Discover the relationship between diversity,
strategic marketing, and technological outcomes in
a global context;
Develop a working model to support and promote
five (5) areas of diversity
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Why Diversity Matters?Why Diversity Matters?
“Necessity is the Mother of Innovation”
“…Cultural diversity is as necessary for humankind as
biodiversity is for nature…”
By 2100, 90% of world languages will be extinct.
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Diversity VocabularyDiversity Vocabulary
Culture - defined as a common system of values, behaviors, beliefs
and relationships that create a sense of community among
individuals. Culture is complex and dynamic, and can change over
time.
Diversity- is defined as differences among people with respect to
age, class, ethnicity, gender, physical and mental ability, race, sexual
orientation, spiritual practice, and other human differences.
Ethnicity- refers to groups defined by shared historical, religious, or
cultural experiences that are independent of race.
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Diversity VocabularyDiversity Vocabulary
Inclusiveness- exists when disadvantaged communities and
designated group members share power and decision-making at all
levels in projects, programs, organizations and Institutions.
Multiculturalism- acknowledges and promotes the acceptance and
understanding of different cultures living together within a
community and working more harmoniously.
Race - refers to a socially defined group, which sees itself and / or is
seen by others as being different from other groups in its common
descent or external features, such as skin color, hair texture, or facial
characteristics.
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Historic Views of MulticulturalismHistoric Views of Multiculturalism
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Leading Causes of Innovative StagnationLeading Causes of Innovative Stagnation
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Contributors to Innovation & ScienceContributors to Innovation & Science
Amar Bose
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Contributors to Innovation & ScienceContributors to Innovation & Science
Benjamin Bradley Steam powered Warship
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Contributors to Innovation & ScienceContributors to Innovation & Science
Dr. Charles DrewDr. Ellen Ochoa
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Contributors to Innovation & ScienceContributors to Innovation & Science
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Contributors to Innovation & ScienceContributors to Innovation & Science
Dr. James West
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Contributors to Innovation & ScienceContributors to Innovation & Science
Granville T. Woods
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Contributors to Innovation & ScienceContributors to Innovation & Science
Narinder S. Kapany
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Contributors to Innovation & ScienceContributors to Innovation & Science
Ernest Blanco
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Contributors to Innovation & ScienceContributors to Innovation & Science
Louis Walter Alvarez
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Contributors to Innovation & ScienceContributors to Innovation & Science
Chien-Shiung Wu
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Contributors to Innovation & ScienceContributors to Innovation & Science
Alexander Bell
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Relationship between Diversity &Relationship between Diversity &
Strategic MarketingStrategic Marketing
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Creating a Working Model to SupportCreating a Working Model to Support
Five Areas of DiversityFive Areas of Diversity
Thank Stan Adams and his Committee for booking me
Booz, Allen, Hamilton leadership and those in attendance.
1. The General Conference of UNESCO took this position in 2001, asserting in Article 1 of the Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity that "...cultural diversity is as necessary for humankind as biodiversity is for nature"
2. Research carried out in the 1990s by David Crystal (Honorary Professor of Linguistics at the University of Wales, Bangor) suggested that at that time, on average, one language was falling into disuse every two weeks. He calculated that if that rate of the language death were to continue, then by the year 2100 more than 90% of the languages currently spoken in the world will have gone extinct.3
Cultural Competence- is a set of congruent behaviors, attitudes, and policies that come together in a system or agency or among a group of professionals and enables that system, agency, or group to work effectively in multicultural situations.
Discrimination- is defined as the systematic, intended or unintended, denial of recognition, power, privilege, and opportunity to certain people based on the groups to which they belong.
Institutional Racism-is the conscious or unconscious exercise of notions of racial superiority by social institutions through their policies, practices and procedures as well as through the organizational culture and values.
Ethnocentrism-refers to beliefs in the superiority of one’s own race and culture.
Introduce a new term: Diversclusion- combination of both diversity and inclusiveness.
A Temporary Measure to Level the Playing Field
Focusing in particular on education and jobs, affirmative action policies required that active measures be taken to ensure that blacks and other minorities enjoyed the same opportunities for promotions, salary increases, career advancement, school admissions, scholarships, and financial aid that had been the nearly exclusive province of whites. From the outset, affirmative action was envisioned as a temporary remedy that would end once there was a "level playing field" for all Americans.
Bakke and Reverse Discrimination
By the late '70s, however, flaws in the policy began to show up amid its good intentions. Reverse discrimination became an issue, epitomized by the famous Bakke case in 1978. Allan Bakke, a white male, had been rejected two years in a row by a medical school that had accepted less qualified minority applicants-the school had a separate admissions policy for minorities and reserved 16 out of 100 places for minority students. The Supreme Court outlawed inflexible quota systems in affirmative action programs, which in this case had unfairly discriminated against a white applicant
Read more: Affirmative Action History & Timeline (Civil Rights Act, Supreme Court Cases, etc) — Infoplease.com http://www.infoplease.com/spot/affirmative1.html#ixzz1dNJGDxhW
Inclusion is a shift in organization culture. The process of inclusion engages each individual and makes people feeling valued essential to the success of the organization. Individuals function at full capacity, feel more valued, and included in the organization’s mission. This culture shift creates higher performing organizations where motivation and morale soar.
Multiculturalism values diversity, but systematically works to block the transfer of societally based subcultures into the fabric of the organization. (Schemerthoorn, J.R. (2005) Organizational Behavior 9th ed)
People lead social lives in a technologically connected world. The Internet has made everything transparent. If your company screws up, consumers will tell their friends -- and the rest of the world -- with a nasty posting online. Conversely, more and more social activity and commerce is taking place online, creating huge opportunities for companies.
Watch for turbulent tides of talent. Just as economic centers are shifting, so are labor markets: McKinsey estimates that there are about 33 million young professionals (college-educated folks with about seven years' working experience) in the developing world -- about twice the size of the young professional pool in the developed world.
Limited resources, unlimited demand. With 975 million families entering the middle class, the world is going to need to figure out ways to provide them with goods without bankrupting the planet. "Every bit of energy conservation we're able to achieve in the rich world is more than offset by growth in the developing world," Farrell says. This area, she notes, has dramatic potential for innovation.
Fighting innovation stagnation
10 things to watch out for if you want to stay on top.
By Stephanie N. Mehta, FORTUNE senior writer
June 29 2006: 11:07 AM EDT
Amor Bose- Noise Canceling Headset used by pilots and space shuttle astronauts
Benjamin Bradley- warship steamboat in 1830’s
Dr. Charles Drew- Separation of blood plasma and refrigeration of blood, established first blood bank.
Ellen Ochoa- invented optical analysis system, first Hispanic female in space.
Garrett Morgan- Gas Mask and Traffic Signal
Dr. James West inventor of modern microphone
Granville T. Woods- telegraph that allowed trains to communicate with each otehr
Narinder S. Kapany- father of fiber optics
Ernest Blanco, Cuban-American invented stair climbing wheelchair
Louis Walter Alvarez – Nobel prize for Physic in 1968 Helped design ground-controlled radar system for aircraft landing
Chien-Shiung Wu First women elected president of the American Physical Society and received the Cyrus B. Comstock Award of the National Academy of Sciences and National Medal of Science.
Alexander Bell- learning Disabilitiy- Invented telephone
In relation to diversity, then, subjective innovation might be said to stem from the
cognitive diversity that visible and non-visible forms of diversity imply. However, the ability of
diverse individuals to communicate creative and original thinking to others, and the
willingness of those others to listen and respond to such ideas, might be constrained by
institutional and non-institutional forms of discrimination, including the degree to which the
company has a culture of “inclusion” and the objective structures of organisations within
which creative and innovative thinking takes place. As such, any attempt at encouraging
“latent” creativity and innovation within and through diverse workforces must be linked with
wider management processes and practices in the businesses of themselves.
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Race and Ethnicity
Gender
Sexual orientation
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Disability