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As for actual, first-order diversity, bring it on. This isn’t just a case of emulating Benetton commercials or marking out soft play areas and safe spaces. It is to recognise that a homogenous, familiar group with shared values and a single perspective — whatever its ethnic, gender or cultural bias — will be ill-equipped to deal with the problems and opportunities that [[complex system]]s — especially ones that are [[tightly-coupled]] — are certain to throw up. | As for actual, first-order diversity, bring it on. This isn’t just a case of emulating Benetton commercials or marking out soft play areas and safe spaces. It is to recognise that a homogenous, familiar group with shared values and a single perspective — whatever its ethnic, gender or cultural bias — will be ill-equipped to deal with the problems and opportunities that [[complex system]]s — especially ones that are [[tightly-coupled]] — are certain to throw up. | ||
Seeing all of us comprise, inhabit, and are immersed in [[complex system]]s ''all the time'' — merely [[complicated system|complicated]] or [[simple system]]s are highly unusual over the run of human discourse<ref>Artificial zero-sum contests like [[Chess|Games]] and sports are obvious exceptions, as is theoretical (but not practical) science.</ref> — this isn’t just airy-fairy | Seeing all of us comprise, inhabit, and are immersed in [[complex system]]s ''all the time'' — merely [[complicated system|complicated]] or [[simple system]]s are highly unusual over the run of human discourse<ref>Artificial zero-sum contests like [[Chess|Games]] and sports are obvious exceptions, as is theoretical (but not practical) science.</ref> — this isn’t just airy-fairy [[yogababble]] to put out on the corporate Twitter feed on Pride Day. | ||
Yet our institutions — even those with a [[Humble|humble-bragging]] D&I directorate — are singularly resistant in practice to this idea. | Yet our institutions — even those with a [[Humble|humble-bragging]] D&I directorate — are singularly resistant in practice to this idea. | ||
*[[Legal department]]s are populated not just by lawyers, but by lawyers educated at Oxbridge and Russell Group universities and trained at [[magic circle law firm|magic circle]] firms, at which they have had a singular, ''batshit crazy'', view of the world beaten into them | *[[Legal department]]s are populated not just by lawyers, but by lawyers educated at Oxbridge and Russell Group universities and trained at [[magic circle law firm|magic circle]] firms, at which they have had a singular, ''batshit crazy'', view of the world beaten into them. | ||
*There are no [[Behavioural psychology|behavioural psychologists]], no marketers, no [[Complexity theory|complexity theorists]] among them. All of these disciplines have meaningful things to say about the management of contractual relations. | *There are no [[Behavioural psychology|behavioural psychologists]], no marketers, no [[Complexity theory|complexity theorists]] among them. All of these disciplines have meaningful things to say about the management of contractual relations. | ||
*There may be a [[chief operating officer]], but she will be an accountant with an [[MBA]], a postgraduate degree singularly [[calculated]] to render an otherwise useful professional calling into an amorphous morass of hackneyed [[outsourcing]] strategies. She will fret that there are too many men in management roles, as if a few more female Oxbridge graduate, [[Allen & Overy]] alumni would make a difference. | *There may be a [[chief operating officer]], but she will be an accountant with an [[MBA]], a postgraduate degree singularly [[calculated]] to render an otherwise useful professional calling into an amorphous morass of hackneyed [[outsourcing]] strategies. She will fret that there are too many men in management roles, as if a few more female Oxbridge graduate, [[Allen & Overy]] alumni would make a difference. | ||