I opened up the latest edition of Fast Company, a magazine that is supposed to be on the cutting edge of business only to read the following:
”Diversity Without Excuses. Yes...there are qualified minorities for top jobs. If you want to find talented people of color for your organization, you can. But you have to make it a priority.”
Those words made me shake my head and wonder why so many people refuse to get out of the stone age and catch up with the times.
Maybe we have been blessed with our Orange County marketplace and an acceptance of diversity in color that they do not enjoy in other parts of the U.S., but doesn’t that sound like a line straight out of the dark ages of business?
Maybe there wouldn’t be so many people hung up on color in business if there weren’t so many people who refused to stop complaining about the hang-ups of color in business.
I truly feel color in business is a self-defeating philosophy. If you can’t get along with purple people, then you suck, but if you refuse to look at purple people the same way you look at yourself, you have no place in the business world.
Any self-respecting business professional knows there are actually two kinds of people in the business world...those who want to succeed and those who don’t...and that’s got nothing to do with a person’s color.
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