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<blockquote data-quote="Dusty" data-source="post: 1481875" data-attributes="member: 5241">[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-03/snowflake-ceo-says-worker-merit-should-outweigh-diversity-goals[/URL]<h3>Snowflake CEO Says Diversity Goal Is Secondary in Hiring Choices</h3><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/SNOW:US" target="_blank">Snowflake Inc.</a> Chief Executive Officer Frank Slootman said the cloud software maker needs to focus more on merit when hiring and promoting employees rather than diversity goals, even as it takes steps to boost opportunities for workers.This is funny though:McKinsey &amp; Co. that has found that companies with more diverse leadership are more likely to outperform the profitability of those that are the least diverse.McKinsey <a href="https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/diversity-and-inclusion/diversity-wins-how-inclusion-matters" target="_blank">found</a> the most gender diverse companies were 25% more likely to have above-average profitability than the least gender diverse group. For ethnic diversity, the gap was 36%.So I looked up McKinsey’s top leadership (Senior Partners).[ATTACH=full]31298[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]31299[/ATTACH]Looks like all white males except&nbsp; for one white woman and a chinaman.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dusty, post: 1481875, member: 5241"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-03/snowflake-ceo-says-worker-merit-should-outweigh-diversity-goals[/URL] [HEADING=2]Snowflake CEO Says Diversity Goal Is Secondary in Hiring Choices[/HEADING] [URL='https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/SNOW:US']Snowflake Inc.[/URL] Chief Executive Officer Frank Slootman said the cloud software maker needs to focus more on merit when hiring and promoting employees rather than diversity goals, even as it takes steps to boost opportunities for workers. This is funny though: McKinsey & Co. that has found that companies with more diverse leadership are more likely to outperform the profitability of those that are the least diverse. McKinsey [URL='https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/diversity-and-inclusion/diversity-wins-how-inclusion-matters']found[/URL] the most gender diverse companies were 25% more likely to have above-average profitability than the least gender diverse group. For ethnic diversity, the gap was 36%. So I looked up McKinsey’s top leadership (Senior Partners). [ATTACH type="full" alt="35BF29FB-E4E9-4884-97A8-EDC7FCDAAAE5.jpeg"]31298[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full" alt="42DE72F2-9452-43D0-85DD-A5615058DA7D.jpeg"]31299[/ATTACH] Looks like all white males except for one white woman and a chinaman. [/QUOTE]

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