Parts of your book deal with such issues as affirmative-action programs and the state of race relations in America. Because that's what I did, not who I am. Diversity cannot be created because it seems like the right thing to do. Diversity cannot be created because we believe we have to have a specific number of representative demographics at a company. It is NOT a numbers game, because a company will fail if it only considers numbers.
Diversity is a critical ingredient in winning because of the true meaning of the word.
Diverse experiences, diverse skills, diverse knowledge, diverse journeys through life taking the best everyone has to offer. Look at the Celtics. Ramsey learned to play in Kentucky, I on the West Coast, Sam Jones in the South, Cousy in New York. The most surprising element of researching Russell Rules was how much glue there was in what we did and how we did it. Winning with the regularity we did was hard work because of the physical, emotional, and intellectual heights we had to reach and stay at every game as individuals and as a team.