Fostering institutions that put a premium on inclusion
Keynote Remarks by Paul A. Laudicina to the INSEAD Women’s Leadership Conference
October 7, 2010
INSEAD Campus, Fountainebleau, France
I’m very pleased to be at this first INSEAD Women’s Leadership Conference, discussing with you what I believe is a central challenge facing business and society at large in the post-crisis world—the challenge of fostering institutions that put a premium on diversity and inclusion. Of course, with any discussion that takes place in a beautiful chateau in the French countryside, and is preceded by a wine tasting, it becomes very easy to take the edge off the compelling nature of the challenge. But France, after all, is an excellent place to reflect on diversity. To borrow from Charles de Gaulle, a country with 246 different types of cheese must know something about diversity. In all seriousness, I applaud the organizers of this conference, and each of you here in attendance, for driving the discussion on the diversity imperative.
Some may wonder why, in the face of the myriad difficulties, from financial crisis to slow growth to global rebalancing, we are devoting precious time and energy to a topic that we could perhaps address later. Why not just put off diversity and inclusion issues until after the dust from the recession has settled?
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