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Scott Adams Racist Rant: 5 Lessons for Every HR Professional & Business Leader

Modern Servant Leader

First, a lack of diversity in your employee base will result in groupthink. The reality is he created his own groupthink. So again, to recap, a lack of diversity results in groupthink. When Scott Adams , creator of the popular comic Dilbert, went on a horrifically racist rant recently, many people were shocked.

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Don’t Hire For Culture Fit

LDRLB

Thus, began a series of books, articles, and interviews with company founders and human resource officers about how they added a “culture fit” interview to the stages of their hiring process. No matter how much training you give them, you can’t really change someone’s personality. That’s a recipe for a leadership disaster.

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Don’t Hire For Culture Fit

LDRLB

Thus, began a series of books, articles, and interviews with company founders and human resource officers about how they added a “culture fit” interview to the stages of their hiring process. No matter how much training you give them, you can’t really change someone’s personality. That’s a recipe for a leadership disaster.

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10 Steps to Rolling Out Core Values at a Small Business

ExactHire - Leadership

As you can imagine, it resulted in a hot mess of groupthink…complete with vanilla platitudes that can only result from trying to be everything to everyone. However, when we first decided that it was time to make a change and embrace the value process, we made the classic rookie mistake of involving everyone.

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