Why diversity and inclusion aren’t about race but everyone thinks they are | Michael Bush

What makes a job a great place to work? A sense of equity and ownership, says Michael Bush, the CEO of the conveniently named Great Place to Work. They're a global consulting and analytics firm that produces the annual Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For list, the 100 Best Workplaces for Women list, the Best Workplaces for Diversity list, and dozens of other distinguished workplace rankings around the world. Read more at BigThink.com: https://ift.tt/2LVsRmg Follow Big Think here: YouTube: http://goo.gl/CPTsV5 Facebook: https://ift.tt/1qJMX5g Twitter: https://twitter.com/bigthink We choose not to talk a lot about diversity and inclusion. We’re not running from the topic. We actually feel like we’re addressing it head on using analytics and revenue and profit to drive the conversation versus some moral imperative. And what that means is that it’s not about fairness and equality alone, it’s about equity, which is about people getting – if you treat someone as a person they need a little more of something than perhaps someone else. And actually if you treat everyone the same you are not going to get the best out of everyone. So equality can be used, in fact, to exclude people and to make the environment a place that certain groups of people don’t want to be in because you’re treating everyone the same. That’s just not the way humans work. You know, I have two kids. One of them might need (when they were young) violin lessons. Another one might need dental care. Well the dental care costs a lot more than the violin lessons, but they both got something that they needed but it wasn’t necessarily ever equal. But it’s addressing people where they are. We also find that diversity and inclusion, once you bring up those words tension goes up in the room, because what happens is when you say that what people think is race but they don’t want to talk about it because they don’t know how to talk about that. So they awkwardly talk about diversity and inclusion and the problem that needs to be addressed gets diluted. We begin to talk about – we can’t talk about race so then we just say “people of color” and “people majority” because we can’t say “race”. And then we talk about men and women because that’s easier than race. And then what about the disabled? “Oh well we can’t really bring that up.” And all these buttons go off that stops the conversation. What we pursue is called a Great Place to Work For All. That’s the way we do it. So we think every employee regardless of who they are, what they are, or what they do for the organization should have a great experience at work. So that includes everyone. It does not separate anyone to say, “One group should have a really great experience and one can have a less great experience.” It means all. It turns into something positive, and people then get engaged and they go, “Yeah, it should be a great place to work for me too. Absolutely. For everybody here, so let’s talk about how to do that.” And you find the whole room starts to lean forward. Rather than “the other topic”, people can’t wait to get out of the room. And talking about the other topic for, you know, I heard that conversation for about 40 years. It hasn’t gotten us very far at all. What we should want is for everybody to be like it is at the top of an organization. Excited about coming to work and doing something that you really, really care about. You’re paying for it. It doesn’t cost you any more money, so you’re just getting more for what you’re paying for. Most businesspeople get that. They get it and they go okay, what’s getting in the way? And we have the analytics to help them know what’s getting in the way. It’s the way they’re being spoken to gets in the way. It’s if you’re listening to them or not, you know. Are you sincerely caring about what they’re saying and using it to innovate and to make business decisions? We asked, “Does management involve you in their decision making? Do you feel informed about how management makes decisions?” The reason we ask these is so we can understand what a person is experiencing, and we know a certain type of experience that makes people say, “I love it here,” because we asked “Do you plan to work here for a long long time?” and people will say yes. And you can predict it based on whether people are listening to them, whether people are welcoming them, whether people are rewarding them, whether people are recognizing them, whether people address them personally rather than an employee in mass communications. You can actually predict these two things, and then you see it in the result of the company in terms of the employee experience the number is very high, and we’ve proven that the revenue growth of the company, we have a hunch it’s going to be higher than others, and we look at the data and, in fact, that is true.

Cockroach Milk Might Be The Next Superfood...

Avocados, kale and quinoa are some superfoods we all know and love, but COCKROACH MILK is swiftly entering the superfood category. Hannah Cranston and Romina Puga talk about the process for harvesting the milk. Let us know if you'd be willing to try cockroach milk for its environmental and health benefits. Don't forget guys, if you like this video please "Like," "Favorite," and "Share" it with your friends to show your support - it really helps us out! If there's something you'd like to see us discuss on the show, tweet us about it! See you tomorrow :) ***************************************************** Every day ThinkTank challenges preconceptions expose amazing new facts and discoveries, explores different perspectives, and inspires you to learn more about the world and the people around you. Feed your brain with new videos every day at 12 pm Eastern/9am Pacific! SUBSCRIBE or you'll miss out! https://ift.tt/O8HfZ3 Keep up to date with Hannah Cranston ON FACEBOOK: https://ift.tt/1ABSBLD HANNAH: https://ift.tt/1Q8R7gd ON TWITTER: http://twitter.com/thinktankfeed HANNAH ON TWITTER: http://twitter.com/HannahCranston ON INSTAGRAM: https://ift.tt/1ABSzU7 HANNAH ON INSTAGRAM: https://ift.tt/27qcZO7 HANNAH ON YOUTUBE: http://www.youtube.com/hannahcranston

5 Things That ACTUALLY Happen When Women Reject Men

Men being rejected is never fun and definitely hurtful, however on the flip side when women reject men it can quickly turn threatening. Hannah Cranston and Megumi Smisson talk about real stories from confessions on Twitter from women who’ve had a rejection go WRONG. Let us know if you’ve ever felt intimidated by a rejected pursuer. Don't forget guys, if you like this video please "Like," "Favorite," and "Share" it with your friends to show your support - it really helps us out! If there's something you'd like to see us discuss on the show, tweet us about it! See you tomorrow :) ***************************************************** Every day ThinkTank challenges preconceptions expose amazing new facts and discoveries, explores different perspectives, and inspires you to learn more about the world and the people around you. Feed your brain with new videos every day at 12 pm Eastern/9am Pacific! SUBSCRIBE or you'll miss out! https://ift.tt/O8HfZ3 Keep up to date with Hannah Cranston ON FACEBOOK: https://ift.tt/1ABSBLD HANNAH: https://ift.tt/1Q8R7gd ON TWITTER: http://twitter.com/thinktankfeed HANNAH ON TWITTER: http://twitter.com/HannahCranston ON INSTAGRAM: https://ift.tt/1ABSzU7 HANNAH ON INSTAGRAM: https://ift.tt/27qcZO7 HANNAH ON YOUTUBE: http://www.youtube.com/hannahcranston

5 Things Only Single People Will Understand

The single life can be appreciated and also loathed, but at the end of the day there are only CERTAIN things lone wolves understand. Hannah Cranston and Megumi Smisson take to reddit to discuss little wins we single people get. Let us know your single-person-only anecdote in the comments below! Don't forget guys, if you like this video please "Like," "Favorite," and "Share" it with your friends to show your support - it really helps us out! If there's something you'd like to see us discuss on the show, tweet us about it! See you tomorrow :) ***************************************************** Every day ThinkTank challenges preconceptions expose amazing new facts and discoveries, explores different perspectives, and inspires you to learn more about the world and the people around you. Feed your brain with new videos every day at 12 pm Eastern/9am Pacific! SUBSCRIBE or you'll miss out! https://ift.tt/O8HfZ3 Keep up to date with Hannah Cranston ON FACEBOOK: https://ift.tt/1ABSBLD HANNAH: https://ift.tt/1Q8R7gd ON TWITTER: http://twitter.com/thinktankfeed HANNAH ON TWITTER: http://twitter.com/HannahCranston ON INSTAGRAM: https://ift.tt/1ABSzU7 HANNAH ON INSTAGRAM: https://ift.tt/27qcZO7 HANNAH ON YOUTUBE: http://www.youtube.com/hannahcranston

Bitcoin: A buyer's and seller's guide | Bill Barhydt

When it comes to Bitcoin it's all about the long game, says Abra founder and CEO Bill Barhydt. By and large, people who have Bitcoin are holding on to it, just like precious metals like gold and silver. Once more of it is mined, we'll start to see the market become less volatile. It might take a decade, but that pay-off could be enormous. Read more at BigThink.com: https://ift.tt/2LV4NjB Follow Big Think here: YouTube: http://goo.gl/CPTsV5 Facebook: https://ift.tt/1qJMX5g Twitter: https://twitter.com/bigthink I think there’s a few things that need to happen for cryptocurrencies to become kind of a global replacement for either reserve currencies, global money transfer vis-à-vis like swift wires via your bank. First of all the system needs to be massively liquid. If you think about dollar as a reserve currency, there’s trillions of dollars in circulation. It’s globally liquid across tens of thousands of banks, across 185 countries, et cetera, et cetera. That’s not totally true of cryptocurrencies yet. If you take Bitcoin, which is the most successful cryptocurrency, its market cap is around $200 billion as of today. It’s tradable in 100 plus countries, but the liquidity of bitcoin versus even the U.S. dollar is relatively low, which means it needs to be worth a lot more if it would become let’s say a “digital gold”. Gold is worth trillions of dollars in the aggregate. Bitcoin is not yet worth that much. And that’s important because if it’s not worth trillions of dollars and billions of people want to use it there’s not enough to go around. So you need to be able to break it up into tiny pieces so everyone can use it, just like gold. And that’s not true until it’s worth a lot more money than it is today. But it becomes a circular discussion because the usage will also drive the price higher, just like speculation sometimes can drive the price higher. So over time it should get there by its ability to be fungible with fiat via these exchanges as kind of an onramp into digital currency, but also it should meet the liquidity requirements that we need, meaning the price should be high enough, the ability to get in and out via traditional money should be reasonable globally over the next few years, and then I believe you can really have a viable discussion about using a cryptocurrency like bitcoin as a viable reserve currency. So cryptocurrencies eventually will look like traditional commodities in my opinion, whether it’s gold or platinum or other metals is probably the best. But it could look like oil and gas and things like that. And so they are starting to trade in a fashion that’s more and more similar to traditional commodities. But the difference right now is they’re not as liquid yet. So that means that the price is very inefficient, or the markets for cryptocurrencies are very inefficient. So most people who are holding cryptocurrencies are long term holders, they’re not selling. So that actually means that the price of Bitcoin and Ether, for example, is largely driven by the volume of buyers. So if there’s large volumes of buyers coming into the market it drives the price higher, because there’s not a lot of sellers. But if the buyers dry up then the price goes down regardless, because there’s still not a lot of sellers. So that will change over time because if the price skyrockets – so, for example, if institutional money starts to come into the cryptocurrency market in large numbers—which I think it will—that will force the price higher because there’s not enough cryptocurrency to go around. And that will also cause some of the holders to loosen up their purse strings because they’re going to want to reap the profits that they’ve been waiting for for 10-15 years by the time that happens. And that will also create more liquidity in the system which will create a really positive feedback loop which should drive the price even higher. The other thing that I think is very relevant is you’re starting to see more traditional types of financial products being applied to cryptocurrencies – derivatives, options, nondeliverable forward contracts, things like that that actually will help make the cryptocurrency market more efficient over time, close a lot of what we call arbitrage loopholes which is kind of like free money in the system for traders. And as those loopholes get closed the market becomes more efficient, more liquid, and it becomes better for everyone. This, I think, is a common misunderstanding with how bitcoin works: Bitcoin itself is what we call deflationary, which means that over time the amount of Bitcoin in circulation if you look at a chart would actually approach a fixed value of 21 million – never quite approach it but it will asymptotically in math terms approach that line of 21 million over time. And it does that by the amount of Bitcoin being mined or created being cut in half every so often.

What Makes Me… Successful? | Qasim Ali Shah (In Urdu)

In this video, Qasim Ali Shah talking about on the topic "Resons behind of success". He is also sharing his experience, wisdom and knowledge that will be helpful for all of those who want to know about the reasons behind the success of Sir. Qasim Ali Shah. ===== ABOUT Qasim Ali Shah ===== Qasim Ali Shah is a Public Speaker- Teacher- Writer- Corporate Trainer & Leader for every age group- Businessmen- Corporate executives- Employees- Students- Housewives- Networkers- Sportsmen and for all who wish everlasting Success- Happiness- Peace and Personal Growth. He helps people to change their belief & thought pattern- experience less stress and more success in their lives through better communication- positive thinking and spiritual knowledge. ===== FOLLOW ME ON THE SOCIALS ===== - Qasim Ali Shah: https://goo.gl/6BKcxu - Google+: https://goo.gl/uPyGvT - Twitter: https://goo.gl/78MVoA - Website : https://goo.gl/Tgjy6u ===== Team Member: Waqas Nasir =====

What Is Consciousness? - All Questions Answered

What Is Consciousness? - All of consciousness explained in a clear and simple manner, with answers to the most frequently asked questions. The Ultimate Life Purpose Course - Create Your Dream Career: https://ift.tt/29w9I9y Leo Reviews Top 200 Self Help Books https://ift.tt/29Z66uZ Leo's Blog: https://ift.tt/2mWWGH7 Actualized.org Forum https://ift.tt/2a7wTJl Contribute subtitles & translations for any Actualized.org video, watch how: https://youtu.be/b9cKgwnFIAw Disclaimer: Advice provided without warranty. This is NOT medical advice. By watching & applying this advice you agree to take 100% responsibility for all consequences.