DIVERSE CITY or DIVERSITY? (En.)


Diverse City or  Diversity ?  English  (end of 2008)
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The translator, Sonia Weyers, once a professor at the international Business School INSEAD now a psychotherapist and leader of creativity workshops, is Belgian-American. 

 



 
Could it be that diversity is the challenge for our society? 
Would we dare to recruit people with personality? Complementary characters?
New blood? Future leaders? Could this be the road to wealth?
 
“ Diverse City or   Diversity ? "poses a question: Do we wish to live in companies as we do in cities where people are segregated along various lines, or will we choose diversity for our organization?
On the one hand lies the risk of conformity, clans and clones and associated dangers: “my way or the highway”-style management, rejection of others, stagnation, fear… on the other hand lies the potential richness that well-managed diversity can bring: openness, creativity, innovation… Few would claim that the management of diversity is easy. Therefore, the answers require self-reflection with humility and humor.
 
The author, Alix de La Tour du Pin, cartoonist and consultant, has created a pedagogic method which is both playful and effective; she invites us to experience this with her pictures, which are placed in diptychs. These pertinent and impertinent drawings give us opportunity to reflect with a smile!
They offer food for thought and stay clear of ready-made answers. Serious at the core, this method lightheartedly broadens our horizons, opens doorsand generates dialog, thus encouraging changes in behavior.

 
“I have come to feel that the only learning which significantly influences behavior
is self-discovered, self-appropriated learning.”              Carl Rogers