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Speaker 1: What's Up? This is the people Shark heir of Damon

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Speaker 1: John with another motivation moment for you courtesy of that

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Speaker 1: Moment with Damon Don a production of The Black Effect

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Speaker 1: podcast Network and iHeartRadio Now. A recent McKenzie studies showed

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Speaker 1: diversity improves the workplace and increases profitability. The findings included

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Speaker 1: that organizations with most gender diverse leadership teams were more

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Speaker 1: likely to outperform on profitability and value creation. The organizations

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Speaker 1: in the top quartile or ethnic cultural diversity were more

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Speaker 1: likely to achieve above average profitability. It means that having

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Speaker 1: female leadership or male leadership combined will take you to

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Speaker 1: the top. It means that understanding and having a diverse

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Speaker 1: group of people working on things from age to ethnicity

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Speaker 1: to sexual preference it helps you. Why does that help you?

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Speaker 1: Because I'll give you an example. If we were the

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Speaker 1: American Army and we wanted to understand how to be

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Speaker 1: more equipped to fight other armies, the Russians or whoever,

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Speaker 1: right for whatever reason, let's just let's use that. You

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Speaker 1: think you only want to talk to just American generals,

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Speaker 1: don't you want to talk to other people that think

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Speaker 1: a different way? They say, well, this is why, this

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Speaker 1: is what we had traditionally prepared and or how we

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Speaker 1: were ready for you, or here's our weakness. You want

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Speaker 1: to hire people that work over there. That's why you benefit,

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Speaker 1: because that's called creativity. If you are selling goods and

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Speaker 1: or you are selling the service you want, you don't

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Speaker 1: want to be torn down. You don't want to not

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Speaker 1: know how to be appealing to everybody because you want

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Speaker 1: to be inclusive. It is a blessing when anybody of

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Speaker 1: any color, any age supports what you were doing, whether

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Speaker 1: they're supporting you right now by watching you or social media,

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Speaker 1: they following your work workouts. Would you ever say if

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Speaker 1: you were super fit and you saw somebody super fit

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Speaker 1: follow your work and go wow, I only want to

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Speaker 1: work people out like you, Or do you want to

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Speaker 1: see people who have different struggles and say I can

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Speaker 1: improve any and all of your lives because I know

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Speaker 1: what many of you need. And that's exactly why when

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Speaker 1: you get to a certain level, and even when you

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Speaker 1: want to get funding, you get a board, a board

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Speaker 1: who's diversified. You get people who say this person, you retail,

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Speaker 1: this person, you this this person, you finance this person.

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Speaker 1: So you get an age diversity in my group, the

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Speaker 1: Shark group, they are extremely extremely diversified there because I

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Speaker 1: want the younger people to be able to mentor the

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Speaker 1: older and the older mentor the younger. I think there

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Speaker 1: was a really great quote that I saw one second

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Speaker 1: out there, and it said, you know, you know, first

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Speaker 1: of all, listen, I love to hire, you know, people

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Speaker 1: that are bringing different perspectives to the table. And I'm

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Speaker 1: not purposely seeking out people different backgrounds. I'm seeking brilliant

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Speaker 1: people no matter what color you are. But I'm giving

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Speaker 1: them a shot and I'm not not hiring them because

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Speaker 1: they have a different background. And I just want people

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Speaker 1: to know that, you know, you can contribute positivity to

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Speaker 1: the team through many different forms. So please understand, even

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Speaker 1: if you just want to be greedy about it, that

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Speaker 1: when you diversify, you win. Remember if your team is

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Speaker 1: only playing one way and half the people are on

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Speaker 1: the bench or they're not even there because you're not

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Speaker 1: using it for those skill sets, You're never gonna win.

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Speaker 1: So make sure that you try to diversify in all forms.

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