Several years ago I was scheduled to fly from Rochester, New York, to Southern California to deliver a commencement speech at a community college.
As I arrived at the airport in Rochester, I learned that my connecting flight to Chicago had been canceled. The airline put me on a plane to Washington, D. C., where I was to catch a connecting flight to Los Angeles. As we pulled away from the gate and approached the runway, the pilot came on the radio and said we would have to go back to the terminal. The engine was on fire!
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During the mid-1980s diversity was becoming an industry of its own. If we go back to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, diversity was thought of only in terms of compliance to the law. Today the thinking is diversity is good for business or it’s the right thing to do.
In the year 2000 we started hearing “inclusion” being referred to as an extension or result of diversity. However, just because you have diversity doesn’t necessarily mean that you will have inclusion.
We believe that Oneness, though not a term that is used very much, has a similar impact on what we now call inclusion. Continue reading » »
