Interview
What organizations should do amid this holding pattern
Yale's Heidi Brooks on what organizations can do to strengthen their cultures and how to handle some of the challenging power dynamics among employees that are arising.
diversity
Workplace lessons from 2021 to carry into next year
These trends that emerged in our second pandemic year can be guiding principles for working through our third.
What Gen Z can teach employers about diverse hiring
A new generation is entering the labor market with different ideas about how their identities inform their work, S. Mitra Kalita writes.
Make this holiday season a refresh for how you support Black business
S. Mitra Kalita's advice on how to move beyond identity-based gift guides toward more sustainable action.
Book Briefing
The best work and management books of the past year
We've read more than 10,000 pages to cover 41 books this year. Here are our recommendations and takeaways.
Book Briefing
'Bias Interrupted' by Joan C. Williams: Small tweaks that add up to more inclusive workplaces
The new book 'Bias Interrupted' spells out how a series of small changes to an organization’s practices can make it more inclusive.
The work of critical race theory falls on employers now
S. Mitra Kalita explains what voters’ fear of critical race theory in schools means for workplace diversity.
What capitalism’s would-be reformers can learn from a burger joint magnate
Nicholas Perkins’ story is a noteworthy model of Black entrepreneurial success, and his playbook offers examples of how companies can actually give back to society.
A woman of color cannot save your workplace culture
A common mistake among managers is to look out onto a workplace of white men and think they need to fix this problem as fast and efficiently as possible, writes S. Mitra Kalita. They focus on the outcome of hiring a woman of color rather than the process of having a diverse candidate pool.
Interview
What 'racial reckoning' looks like for organizations
Dr. Stephanie Pinder-Amaker on the essential work of inclusion to be doing now.
