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{{g}}Is it just me or is there an ever present, crushing irony in the fact that the most monotonous, robotic, cliche-laden, auto-generated, phoned-in, ditch-water dull patter in all of modern business discourse — and bugger me, that is quite some vertiginous bar to overcome —  is uttered in the name of [[diversity and inclusion]]?
{{a|hr|{{image|Diversity|jpg|You’re all the same age and you’ve all got the same trousers.}}}}''For a serious article on the importance of actual diversity, as opposed to the [[professional-managerial class]]’ [[performative]] [[virtue signalling]] about it, see “[[diversity]]”.''


:''“Only by actively engaging different perspectives can we challenge and stretch our thinking, enrich the experiences of employees, and empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Every day, we strive to create an environment that brings the power of diversity to life; where people with different backgrounds and experiences thrive in both their professional and personal lives—and where we’re all able to channel our passions to help others achieve more.”
{{drop|T|here is surely}} an ever-present, crushing irony in the fact that the most monotonous, robotic, cliché-laden, straight-out-of-central-casting, phoned-in, ditch-water dull patter in all of the modern business discourse — and stone the crows, that’s quite some bar to overcome —  is uttered in the name of [[diversity and inclusion]].


The above — a verbatim, real-life example plucked from the tirelessly unhumble, [[virtue-signalling]] pages of [[LinkedIn]], is the kind of random-word generator mush that “only a rather dull MBA could have said while attempting a graveyard in moonlight”<ref>With apologies to the greatest line of rock 'n' roll spite, from Roger Waters’ magnificently bilious  ''The Pros and Cons of Hitch-Hiking''.
''Actual'' [[diversity]] in an organisation’s workforce is vital for risk and opportunity management in the [[complexity|complex]] environments that any self-respecting organisation should be looking to stick itself in the middle of.  


further irony: in the cohort of our newest professional services worker, a whole specialism that has magically self-spawned from nowhere in about three years, the ''Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion'', the most endangered minority is the white guy? 
Oddly, current management dogma, while long on platitudes curated from the random word generators in the D&I inspectorate seems hell-bent on identifying and systematically rooting out ''actual'' [[diversity]], through devices like the [[law firm panel]] — get legal advice if you must, but only from this mandated set of firms, all of whom provide more or less identical service from carefully filtered Russell group graduates, who also populate your [[legal department]]; the [[playbook]] — welcome, young proverbial [[school-leaver from Bucharest]]: Now, follow these simple instructions and for God's sake don’t improvise or bring any of your own idiosyncratic perspectives to bear on the issue; and most galling off all, the [[AI]] [[reg tech]] solution — a.k.a. the [[algorithm]], which must be the dictionary definition of homogenous, having not even a White Anglo-Saxon Protestant cultural framework, as spiritually bankrupt as that may be, to bring to bear on your [[confidentiality agreement]] but ''no cultural framework at all''.<ref>Until the [[Twitter]]ati turn it in to a Nazi of course.</ref>


[[Diversity]] — ''real'' [[diversity]] — is not a [[box ticking|box to be ticked]]. It may be the difference between survival and extinction when that existential crisis arrives unbidden. Best not leave it, therefore, to well-meaning [[Virtue signalling|virtue signallers]] in [[HR]].
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*(Actual) [[diversity]]
*[[Diversity paradox]]
*[[Middle management]]
*{{br|Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed}}
*[[Parkinson’s law]]


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For a serious article on the importance of actual diversity, as opposed to the professional-managerial class’ performative virtue signalling about it, see “diversity”.

There is surely an ever-present, crushing irony in the fact that the most monotonous, robotic, cliché-laden, straight-out-of-central-casting, phoned-in, ditch-water dull patter in all of the modern business discourse — and stone the crows, that’s quite some bar to overcome — is uttered in the name of diversity and inclusion.

Actual diversity in an organisation’s workforce is vital for risk and opportunity management in the complex environments that any self-respecting organisation should be looking to stick itself in the middle of.

Oddly, current management dogma, while long on platitudes curated from the random word generators in the D&I inspectorate seems hell-bent on identifying and systematically rooting out actual diversity, through devices like the law firm panel — get legal advice if you must, but only from this mandated set of firms, all of whom provide more or less identical service from carefully filtered Russell group graduates, who also populate your legal department; the playbook — welcome, young proverbial school-leaver from Bucharest: Now, follow these simple instructions and for God's sake don’t improvise or bring any of your own idiosyncratic perspectives to bear on the issue; and most galling off all, the AI reg tech solution — a.k.a. the algorithm, which must be the dictionary definition of homogenous, having not even a White Anglo-Saxon Protestant cultural framework, as spiritually bankrupt as that may be, to bring to bear on your confidentiality agreement but no cultural framework at all.[1]

Diversity — real diversity — is not a box to be ticked. It may be the difference between survival and extinction when that existential crisis arrives unbidden. Best not leave it, therefore, to well-meaning virtue signallers in HR.

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  1. ↑ Until the Twitterati turn it in to a Nazi of course.
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