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Ask the White Guy: Where Are You From? How to Deal With Racist Remarks, Intentional or Not

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What do you say when people make ostensibly polite comments that really are racial digs?

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Ask the White Guy: What I Know About the Rutgers Situation

Ask the White Guy: What I Know About the Rutgers Situation

DiversityInc CEO Luke Visconti, a Rutgers Trustee and member of the Governors Committee on Intercollegiate Athletics, gives you his take on what really happened.

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Ask the White Guy: Decision Making, Clarity of Values & What to Do When It Goes Horribly Wrong

Ask the White Guy: Decision Making, Clarity of Values & What to Do When It Goes Horribly Wrong

Are you violating your values? If you are, you can’t hide from the repercussions.

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The Business Case for Work/Life Benefits

The Business Case for Work/Life Benefits

Is it all a bunch of nonsense? How work/life benefits grow the bottom line.

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Multicultural Marketing Case Study: Wells Fargo’s Asian Outreach

Multicultural Marketing Case Study: Wells Fargo’s Asian Outreach

How are resource groups helping Wells Fargo reach the rapidly growing Asian-American market?

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Ask the White Guy: ‘I Have Black Friends’ Doesn’t Mean You Aren’t Racist

Ask the White Guy: ‘I Have Black Friends’ Doesn’t Mean You Aren’t Racist

Question: Why is it whenever white people defend their racism, the first thing they default to is “I’m not a bigot” and the second thing is “I have friends who are black”? I could scream.

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Pentagon to Issue Same-Gender Couple Benefits

Pentagon to Issue Same-Gender Couple Benefits

Is this new policy indicative of how the Supreme Court will rule on DOMA this summer?

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Wells Fargo: Cultural Competence Builds Global Remittance Business

Wells Fargo: Cultural Competence Builds Global Remittance Business

How has cultural competence enabled Wells Fargo to help customers succeed financially? The company’s Head of Global Remittance Services explains their business advantage.

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Novartis’ David Epstein: A Diverse Team Can ‘Accomplish Feats Nobody Thought Possible’

Novartis’ David Epstein: A Diverse Team Can ‘Accomplish Feats Nobody Thought Possible’

Having had great success through cultural transformation, this executive is now taking on a bigger challenge as Division Head of Novartis Pharmaceuticals.

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Stereotypes: Embrace Them or Deny Them?

Stereotypes: Embrace Them or Deny Them?

Question: Suppose someone possesses some of the stereotypes that are attached to their race, gender, orientation, ability and/or age. Do you think this person should embrace or deny these qualities, especially regarding perpetuating stereotypes and advancing in careers?

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Finally! Ban on Women in Combat Lifted

Finally! Ban on Women in Combat Lifted

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is overturning the policy that kept women from prominent combat roles.

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Diversity Events: How IBM Re-Launched Its Resource Groups

Diversity Events: How IBM Re-Launched Its Resource Groups

DiversityInc CEO Luke Visconti shares DiversityInc Top 50 best practices for establishing and maintaining resource groups at IBM’s corporate event.

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Ask the White Guy: You’re Gay? You’re Fired!

Ask the White Guy: You’re Gay? You’re Fired!

More than 30 states still allow employers to fire someone for being gay or transgender. Here’s how your company can combat LGBT discrimination.

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Ask the White Guy: Is Diversity Training Effective? What Would Make It Effective?

Ask the White Guy: Is Diversity Training Effective? What Would Make It Effective?

The answer isn’t a chicken-or-egg riddle.

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Ask the White Guy: Do Blacks Need to Relax Their Natural Hair to Get Promoted?

Ask the White Guy: Do Blacks Need to Relax Their Natural Hair to Get Promoted?

Does this reader need to relax her natural hair to get ahead in the workplace? Read what the White Guy says.

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