The Loudest Duck Quotes

“We hire for difference and then we fire because they aren’t the same.”
― Laura Liswood, The Loudest Duck: Moving Beyond Diversity while Embracing Differences to Achieve Success at Work

“Management is the institution of the organization. Every manager is in charge of a particular playing field; all of the areas under their responsibility (each of the parts) add up to be the total corporation or organization. Therefore, each manager’s field must be a meritocracy if the organization as a whole is to be one. Each manager is responsible for establishing the environment that allows for true cognitive diversity—the genuinely different ideas and ways in which people think.”
― Laura A. Liswood, The Loudest Duck: Moving Beyond Diversity while Embracing Differences to Achieve Success at Work

“The company ends up losing out, since the time and effort spent on promoting workplace diversity isn’t producing something beneficial, or achieving the cognitive diversity of perspective, experience, and learning.”
― Laura A. Liswood, The Loudest Duck: Moving Beyond Diversity while Embracing Differences to Achieve Success at Work

“Companies are ultimately looking for increased creativity, better ideas, and multiple perspectives, so they will in fact benefit from diversity. However, we will see that achieving this takes much more effort than merely assembling a workplace that looks like Noah’s ark.”
― Laura A. Liswood, The Loudest Duck: Moving Beyond Diversity while Embracing Differences to Achieve Success at Work