Ethikos Editor’s Weekly Picks: Is Your Company’s Diversity Training Making You More Biased

David Rock for Strategy + Business:
Although diversity and inclusion training is prevalent in corporate America, its impact is inconsistent. According to the evidence, sometimes the programs even have the opposite effect of what they intend. One 2016 study of 830 mandatory diversity training programs found that they often triggered a strong backlash against the ideas they promoted. Read more

Marla Tabaka for Inc.:
We all know change is necessary and inevitable. Still, people resist it–sometimes they even rebel against it. Why? Because change threatens the comfort zone we hunker into while living and working in a known and predictable environment, even when that environment isn’t happy, productive, or safe. Read more

Julie Miller & Brian Bedford for Texas CEO:
What is so hard about doing the right thing?  Why is it so difficult for some leaders to make decisions when the answer seems so obvious to the rest of us?  Why does it take advertisers to pull their support and public outrage to help get to what should have been the initial response? Read more

Olivia Goldhill for Quartz:
Millions of people refuse to recognize man-made climate change. Americans spend billions on homeopathy. Around 12 million people believe that lizards are secretly ruling the world. The world is filled with bad, baseless, factually inaccurate ideas that refuse to die.  Read more

Amit Dua for Business World:
With competition heating up across markets today, the effort required to succeed in a business has increased multifold. It is only natural for entrepreneurs then to become restless and start looking for shortcuts to success, even it means compromising on business ethics for some. Read more