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Finally! A major magazine acknowledges (in a cover article!) that how you see the world is by far themost important thing.
And it is. Historically, Freud ruled. And the 1990s were all Prozac all the time. But now it's time to move beyond Freud and beyond Prozac.
But the good news is ...
A new study reveals that Diversity Training has little or no effect on the racial and gender mix of a company's top ranks, reports Time Magazine.
The study is the result of three sociologists sifting through decades of federal employee statistics provided by companies.
What causes this dismal state of affairs?
In the words of social psychologists:
But here is the most important part. The sociologists specifically investigated only whether current Diversity Training practices succeed. They did not investigate whether the problem was the nature of the training itself.
Most Diversity Training is like all the other training we see in the corporate world. They teach: do this ... think that ... follow these rules ... learn these laws ... adopt these habits.
Over the years, the lack of great trainers hasn't given anybody any heart burn because there hasn't ever been any objective way to measure the effectiveness of any of the training. "What we don't know doesn't hurt us."
And the results should not be a surprise to anyone.
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