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“And for the first time, in 2017, Lilly began setting aspirational goals to improve its representation of women in management globally. And in the U.S., it did the same with minority group members—specifically with Black, Asian and Latino employees.”
“aspirational goals” ====> QUOTAS
The “code” , best and brightest no matter what.
The issue that goes unmentioned is that the demand for diversity (by which they mean black or Latino) far outstrips the actual supply of qualified candidates and that isn’t going to change anytime soon. The only way to get to anything approaching proportional representation is by affirmative action, which is lowering standards for some and raising them for others based on race. It’s not a real solution, and everyone except the most brainwashed knows it.
No one is born with nor graduates college/grad school with all the knowledge and skills necessary to rise in management (in pharma or anywhere else). Companies either train or hire from outside for key roles, and Lilly almost always trains people up.
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The important point: we white men are not the only folks who can learn new skills through mentoring and training by leaders. Those who imagine otherwise are hopelessly lost.
Poor Dr. Martin Luther King; he had such a wonderful dream of every person being judged on the content of their character, rather then the color of their skin. Such an admirable, proper goal…yet, today, our culture seems further from it than it was the day he spoke it.