Publisher's Synopsis
Dramatically changing demographics are upending politics, marketplaces, and workplaces. In this Third Edition of The Inclusion Paradox: The Obama Era and the Transformation of Global Diversity, Andres T. Tapia, Senior Client Partner and Global Workforce, Inclusion and Diversity Practice Leader at talent and leadership management consulting firm, Korn Ferry, examines how today's hyper-diverse world of the Obama Era and beyond has been transforming policy agendas, marketplace penetration, and workforce management-and what those changes mean for our future.
With its more than fifty new pages of updated facts, figures, deep Korn Ferry and other research, as well as current event references, in this Third Edition, Tapia explores not the political implications, but rather the cultural implications of what has been the Obama Era, and what it takes to move into the next generation of diversity work to grow business and attract and retain the best talent.
He makes the case that the work of diversity and inclusion has never been more urgent, particularly in an era of polarization around the world, as everything has globalized, and paradoxically, atomized at a massive scale. Yet nations and companies are woefully and dangerously unprepared for this diversity. Because it's one thing to acknowledge the diversity already here, quite another to make the most out of it.
"Diversity is the mix. Inclusion is making the mix work" is what Tapia says about this reality. Which means that inclusion is hard. Very hard. Harder than diversity itself. Inclusion defines the challenge all leaders face as they address the dramatic shifts of diversity-racial, ethnic, generational, gender, sexual orientation, faith, personality, nationality, and on-in our workplaces and communities.
