More and more companies are using diversity and inclusion plans solely to get recognized on a top 100 diversity management list. We need to stop solving and looking for recognition and start thinking about and earning respect from the actual people in our workplaces and marketplaces – to give them influence over the growth of… Continue reading Problems with Diversity Part 29
Month: July 2020
Jul 2020. Azerbaijan – Armenia Part 1
July 2020. Azerbaijan says one of its generals and five other officers have been killed in a third day of fighting with Armenian forces on the countries’ border. An Azeri private also died, bringing the Azeri death toll so far to 11. Armenia says four of its troops – two of them officers – were… Continue reading Jul 2020. Azerbaijan – Armenia Part 1
BBC Bias Part 6
On 29 May, The Mail Online reported that the BBC had announced that Richard Sambrook, former head of BBC global news, will be heading an inquiry into whether tweets by BBC talent breach its impartiality policy. Sambrook has been in BBC News and Current Affairs for thirty years. For those of us who have been… Continue reading BBC Bias Part 6
Jul 2020. Hashim Thaci Questioned
July 2020. Kosovar President Hashim Thaci has faced questioning by international war-crimes prosecutors at The Hague. The Kosovo Specialist Chambers (SPO) announced on June 24 that Thaci and other prominent Kosovars were the subject of an indictment on suspicion of serious crimes including “nearly 100 murders,” enforced disappearances, and torture. Thaci was a top commander… Continue reading Jul 2020. Hashim Thaci Questioned
UK Culture under Direct Attack Part 21
It seems they have cottoned on to what many have been stating for almost a fortnight now: That, like so many other noble causes from environmentalism to human rights, the Black Lives Matter movement is fast being hijacked by Left-wing extremists who now wish to use it to advance a rackety and in many ways… Continue reading UK Culture under Direct Attack Part 21
Jul 2020. Timbuktu War Crimes Trial
July 2020. In 2012, a coalition of Islamic extremists occupied the ancient city of Timbuktu in the Saharan desert. They imposed a brutal regime, murdering and raping those they considered to be non-believers and destroying centuries-old holy sites that they saw as blasphemous. Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague accuse Al… Continue reading Jul 2020. Timbuktu War Crimes Trial
Jul 2020. Protests in the DR of Congo
July 2020. On the surface, the recent protests that have swept across the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) surround the potential appointment of Ronsard Malonda as the president of the Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI). But at the root, there is a fierce struggle for political power that dates back more than a decade.… Continue reading Jul 2020. Protests in the DR of Congo
Political Islam Part 24
Mr Macron announced measures to tighten controls on foreign financing of mosques, to end the nomination by Algeria, Morocco and Turkey of 300 imams a year for France, and withdraw from this year permission for foreign governments to control language courses for 80,000 pupils learning Arabic, Turkish and other languages from their countries of origin… Continue reading Political Islam Part 24
Jul 2020. South China Sea Conflict
July 2020. China’s South China Sea gambit is heading toward a rocky phase, the warning signs of which were witnessed on July 13 when U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo formally rejected China’s “historical rights” claims in the South China Sea. Terming the Chinese policy completely unlawful, he added that the international community will not… Continue reading Jul 2020. South China Sea Conflict
Problems with Diversity Part 28
If you review corporate diversity and inclusion plans for companies, most believe in their hearts that the implementation will make the company better inside and a more competitive outside. Good! That’s what a diversity and inclusion plan should do. But when I ask the executives what their plans solve for, they often say “diversity and… Continue reading Problems with Diversity Part 28