Resumen de In boardrooms, the same is a shame
In its annual review of corporate board appointments, the executive search firm Heidrick & Struggles International Inc. labels the latest crop of Fortune 500 directors the usual suspects, noting stalled progress for women appointees and generally flat numbers for directors of Hispanic, African, and Asian descent. The problem of a lack of diversity in corporate leadership is not just an American one, either. Corporate boards and executive teams are self-regenerating: they largely hire their own replacements. When too many people at the top are looking at our dynamic world through the same static scope, they are far more likely to miss seeing the full landscape in all of its fast-evolving glory. We need to improve our organization's peripheral vision. That takes people who see things from new angles and through lenses shaped by fundamentally different sets of experiences. It takes people not like us.
