Forget the PC overtones - diversity really does need to be managed. But what kind of diversity and who's to manage it - more white men in blue shirts?
The topic is, of course, code for race and gender. 'Race' is often literally only skin deep; at other times it encodes ethnic awareness and cultural values. Gender is a more reliable and less compromising set of biological and socially constructed differences, recognised as hugely important in how we can better work together. Yet it's the related aspects of our differences - personality, skill, experience, knowledge - which when combined effectively offer the magic prize of synergy; all of us are better than any of us.
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