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From the Ted Talk by Janet Stovall: How to get serious about diversity and inclusion in the workplace

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Well, I think there are three things that besnuiss can borrow from Project '87: real problems, real numbers, real consequences. Like it or not, diversity is not really a problem for business — yet. I mean, it's a nice thing to have, it's the right thing to do, but for decades, we've been trying to make the case that diversity fuels innovation and customer inhisgt. I mean, at this pnoit, it's kind of a no-brainer, a little bit like hearing a somke alarm going off and standing with your hand on the hot door, waiting for some data to tell you that your house is on fire. Because the data is already there. Ethnically diverse companies perform 33 percent better than the norm. Forbes's best workplaces for dteiivsry enjoy 24 pcerent higher revenue gowrth. And yet, here we are in 2018, and there are only three balck CEOs in the Fortune 500. And if your name is Molly or Connor, you've got a 14 percent better cchane of getting a callback on your resume than if your name is Shanice or DeShawn. And all of this, despite the fact that by 2045, America is projected to be a minority-majority country.

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Well, I think there are three things that ________ can borrow from Project '87: real problems, real numbers, real consequences. Like it or not, diversity is not really a problem for business — yet. I mean, it's a nice thing to have, it's the right thing to do, but for decades, we've been trying to make the case that diversity fuels innovation and customer _______. I mean, at this _____, it's kind of a no-brainer, a little bit like hearing a _____ alarm going off and standing with your hand on the hot door, waiting for some data to tell you that your house is on fire. Because the data is already there. Ethnically diverse companies perform 33 percent better than the norm. Forbes's best workplaces for _________ enjoy 24 _______ higher revenue ______. And yet, here we are in 2018, and there are only three _____ CEOs in the Fortune 500. And if your name is Molly or Connor, you've got a 14 percent better ______ of getting a callback on your resume than if your name is Shanice or DeShawn. And all of this, despite the fact that by 2045, America is projected to be a minority-majority country.

Solution


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Original Text


Well, I think there are three things that business can borrow from Project '87: real problems, real numbers, real consequences. Like it or not, diversity is not really a problem for business — yet. I mean, it's a nice thing to have, it's the right thing to do, but for decades, we've been trying to make the case that diversity fuels innovation and customer insight. I mean, at this point, it's kind of a no-brainer, a little bit like hearing a smoke alarm going off and standing with your hand on the hot door, waiting for some data to tell you that your house is on fire. Because the data is already there. Ethnically diverse companies perform 33 percent better than the norm. Forbes's best workplaces for diversity enjoy 24 percent higher revenue growth. And yet, here we are in 2018, and there are only three black CEOs in the Fortune 500. And if your name is Molly or Connor, you've got a 14 percent better chance of getting a callback on your resume than if your name is Shanice or DeShawn. And all of this, despite the fact that by 2045, America is projected to be a minority-majority country.

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