EBBF Podcast Episode 5: New Approaches to Diversity as a Key Resource to Your Enterprise

I just loved Arthur Dahl’s insights at the start of this podcast about the maximum benefits that synergy arising from diversity provides the organisms in a natural ecosystem such as a coral reef and the direct analogy to be drawn with how diversity functions in human societal “ecosystems”. I especially liked his comments, in response to host Parker’s apt query, about how the principle of justice, so critical to a well-run human society, can also be seen operating in nature in terms of the balance resulting from every actor in a diverse natural system playing its part…and his report of an experiment with dogs (I’ve heard of a similar one with chimps) who show an innate expectation of just rewards for equal effort. Bahá’í entrepreneur extraordinaire Payam Zamani’s enthusiasm about his culturally diverse network of companies was heartening, as was Carl Emerson’s information about how many top companies are now taking great pains to achieve maximum unity coupled with maximum diversity in pursuit of “strategic excellence”. I liked the way he introduced this with a personal anecdote illustrating how aspects of diversity with which we may at first be uncomfortable may in fact enrich our experience of what it means to be human and facilitate our interpersonal skills in the process. Wonderful podcast!