Why's that, do you think?

It is established that diverse organisations overall perform better and it is therefore financially and organisationally useful to try to get the balance correct.

To encourage diversity some organisations may place a small additional weighting on a diversity candidate. But likely only in roles where diversity is relatively low compared to the benefit.

So where someone is managing a highly diverse group or where currently there is little diversity.

This is unlikely to cut in until senior levels. It is incredibly hard to hire Executive Directors from diversity backgrounds, I have had personal experience both here and in the US.

I aim to ensure good diversity at one level below Executive to try to grow our own, given the scarcity.

Remember that Diversity covers many areas, not just ethnicity or race. It is the case in London that you would aim for as near as possible 50% women at senior levels and ideally 34% ethnic diversity, 5% disabled and 4.5% LGBTQA. Plus a good age spread.

This is almost never possible. I won't hire unqualified candidates as that is a recipe for a string of failures within our diversity colleagues.

I just know the kind of response I shall get here from this but hey, I really don't care. This is the correct thing to do.

It is established that diverse organisations overall perform better and it is therefore financially and organisationally useful to try to get the balance correct.

To encourage diversity some organisations may place a small additional weighting on a diversity candidate. But likely only in roles where diversity is relatively low compared to the benefit.

So where someone is managing a highly diverse group or where currently there is little diversity.

This is unlikely to cut in until senior levels. It is incredibly hard to hire Executive Directors from diversity backgrounds, I have had personal experience both here and in the US.

I aim to ensure good diversity at one level below Executive to try to grow our own, given the scarcity.

Remember that Diversity covers many areas, not just ethnicity or race. It is the case in London that you would aim for as near as possible 50% women at senior levels and ideally 34% ethnic diversity, 5% disabled and 4.5% LGBTQA. Plus a good age spread.

This is almost never possible. I won't hire unqualified candidates as that is a recipe for a string of failures within our diversity colleagues.

I just know the kind of response I shall get here from this but hey, I really don't care. This is the correct thing to do.

"It is established that diverse organisations overall perform better"

Yes, it is established in propaganda. How we were struggling before diversity came along.

Floyd to be the most popular name next year, after Mohammed of course.

No, in Share prices.

But please, feel free to continue with your prejudices.

Well said!

Nobody positively discriminates, it's illegal in the UK.

In order to get the best people, Companies set criteria for assessing candidates. Based upon the organisation's objectives and the role requirements.

That is what I have described.

If you really want to pick a fight, try asking any major organisation which candidate they would favour ceteris paribus. As a tie break, they will normally go for the less 'standard' candidate - whatever that may be in their world - to increase the breadth of thinking.

BLM did NOT start "taking the knee".

Colin Kaepernick did. That's the historical start and the players are merely supporting the tide of opinion that swept around the world. It wasn't George Floyd's history that created this movement. It was the way he died. People were outraged and sufficiently motivated to do something about it. That people like you don't get that is regrettable but kind of predictable.

Untrue. That few, if any, have, indicates that within the dressing rooms there is a unanimity of purpose presumably because they have witnessed the effects at first hand and via first-hand testimony. They also know that they have a unique opportunity via a worldwide audience to make a strong statement.

Nevertheless, if anyone wanted to stand aside, and offered rational reasoning on why that would be respected. It has elsewhere so why not here.