Find out your “Personal Diversity Score” with this online questionnaire. — Following the idea expressed in this earlier article, I developed this online questionnaire to let you quickly and easily measure your “personal diversity score” according to the methodology and formula that I will describe in this article. The goal is to provide a simple way to measure diversity with a…

It’s an exciting time for social progress. It might not always feel that way, but we’re going through an uncertain transition that opens many new opportunities. Diversity has become a must in the corporate world, and large companies like to boast their Chief Diversity Officer. It is a good thing…

Have you ever been told you were under too much stress or convinced yourself that you were? If not, Covid-19 has made it more likely, with 8 in 10 adults in the US now saying “the coronavirus pandemic is a significant source of stress in their life.” But is stress…

A few days ago, I became a US citizen. Having first entered the country with a work permit in 2000, only my persistent French accent and lack of passion for baseball or football remind me of my “alien status.” Well, of course, this status also brings no rights to vote…

Windshield Philosophy — Semper Fidelis — the Marines’ motto (more on this later) — was written on the back windshield of the car ahead of me, in strict italic white letters, like a tattoo. “Always faithful.” That’s quite a strong statement for a charmless sedan at a traffic light, and certainly a big…

With just one simple experiment The San Francisco Exploratorium features this very simple yet effective experiment for anyone to understand privilege. There are two transparent handbags, one labeled “me”, the other “someone else”, on each side of the table. In the middle of the table, there are nine groups of…

Except for this one thing… — Data being the new oil, it’s been refined and distributed into Key Performance Indicators and Objectives and Key Results and served at your nearest desk station as flashy dashboards after going through pipelines of fiber optics, number crunchers, and almighty artificial intelligence. Most of it is useless and a massive…

To be or not to be what you’ve been named — “To name a being is to define it, to indicate a direction to it. We are the name we have, and we must not live where that name is nothing, where its vibration is muffled.” Léonora Miano in “Contours du jour qui vient”. I came across this beautiful sentence that…