TED on the magic of diversity

You may think that innovation is the product of intellectual curiosity, determination and third-party support. But that is only because you have never heard of diversity.

Diversity is a magical economic power that creates wealth out of thin air and is almost always a recipe for innovation; just ask Thot Rocio Lorenzo:




To think that Lorenzo would be getting paid big bucks to try to convince you of something that is not true, or that corporate sponsors would want you to believe in diversity - the power of women in the work force and mass migration - just to create the greatest competition for jobs (resulting in wage stagnation) and a single market of distracted, powerless, atomized individuals, fighting one another for breadcrumbs, is a wild, neon-Nazi conspiracy theory:




Just look at the power of the "diverse" workplace in action:
Since the #MeToo movement, dozens in the business world say men are adopting “tactics” and “strategies” to build their own “zones”.

Some have banned one-on-one meetings, others make sure they’re booked separate seats on flights, while others even ensure if they’re on overnight work trips, that their hotel rooms are on separate floors.

Men in the business world are reshaping the way they behave. Private meetings are done with doors open while one particular business executive said he won’t meet women in rooms without windows anymore and is conscious of how much space he leaves around himself while in elevators.

“Women are grasping for ideas on how to deal with it, because it is affecting our careers,” Karen Elinski, president of the Financial Women’s Association and a senior vice president at Wells Fargo & Co, told Bloomberg. “It’s a real loss.”

According to The Art of Mentoring, an Australian report done post-MeToo, 25 per cent of men admitted they were nervous about working alone with a female colleague. And in the US, research found the number of men in senior roles feeling “uncomfortable” about mentoring a woman had tripled.

Earlier this week, Sunrise copped criticism after the breakfast program suggested the #MeToo movement had gone too far.

Sunrise host Sam Armytage said she knew men who were scared in the wake of the women’s empowerment movement around sexual harassment.

“The #MeToo movement was meant originally to empower women and give some women the confidence to call out sexism. Has it been derailed a little?” Armytage asked the guest, author Bettina Arndt.

Armytage later said: “I know a lot of the men I know and love are quite scared at the moment.”

Arndt argues the #MeToo movement has given women licence to destroy men on the basis of the most trivial accusations. Despite Arndt’s comments, discrimination and employment lawyers say men need to be careful putting up barriers.

Stephen Zweig, an employment lawyer at FordHarrison, said the male backlash from #MeToo could end badly for companies.“If men avoid working or travelling with women alone, or stop mentoring women for fear of being accused of sexual harassment, those men are going to back out of a sexual harassment complaint and right into a sex discrimination complaint,” Mr Zweig told Bloomberg.