Management needs diversity
A recent report by the Treasury Committee in the UK suggested that the financial crisis could have been avoided if more women had been in senior positions within banks and able to challenge ‘group think’. It has re-opened the controversial debate about whether or not there should be quotas to improve diversity at the top of organisations.
Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.
The trouble with challenging institutions is the power they wield to help protect and maintain their position, and the fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) they will generate about anything new that threatens their comfortable existence.
Once something is already complicated, it becomes easier and easier to add to the mess. That behaviour needs to be reversed or accept at some point it will be ‘all change’ as the system collapses and a new one arises.
A while back I posted a video Microsoft had commissioned from Common Craft: SharePoint in Plain English. Not long after, Jack Vinson posted a video on his KM blog, from IBM explaining Lotus Connections. Not as slick as Common Craft but looks kind of familiar:
There’s been a host of news this week as the deal between Microsoft and Yahoo was finally inked. The net result: Yahoo drops its own search engine and adopts Microsoft’s Bing, increasing the market share for Bing to 28% against Google’s 65% and leaving 7% for everyone else (stats in the US) Other chatter recently [...]
