Addressing diversity: the three disconnects

DISRUPTION and diversity are two issues that are most critical to the future of industries and organisations today. By treating these as separate, leaders often fail to realise the nexus between the two. Disruption demands innovation, and new ideas will more likely flourish in organisations with diversity of ideas and experiences borne from different perspectives.

Among the different types of diversity that corporations should seek, gender diversity is of contemporary interest and need. Situations abound of how greater gender diversity would have made a positive difference to projects…