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What most managers don’t know about leading diverse teams

What most managers don’t know about leading diverse teams

Vernā Myers, vice president of inclusion strategy at Netflix, says the best thing about what has happened in the past few tragedy-marked months since the Black Lives Matter movement was reignited is that “the words ‘oppression’ and ‘structural racism’ and ‘systemic issues,’ these are part of the parlance, the regular vocabulary.” “Now, let’s not let that go back into the closet,” she told Rosanna Durruthy, vice president of diversity, inclusion, and belonging at LinkedIn, during a LinkedIn Learning conversation early in September. Myers, who is the author of two books on diversity at work and has an eponymous firm that provides diversity and inclusion training, says successful managers tend to suffer from overconfidence, believing past performance will predict more of the same in the future.