Leadership in Action: In Focus - Diversity - Latino Leaders can Gain Insights from Black Colleagues

In Focus/Diversity

Latino Leaders Can Gain Insights from Black Colleagues

Keith A. Caver and Ancella B. Livers

Darren Lewis couldn't help but reflect on his experience as a new manager in his company as he watched the assimilation of George Hernandez, a newly transferred manager, into their organization. The company's most recent efforts to increase minority representation at the managerial levels had culminated with Hernandez's recruitment from a regional division in the Southwest a little more than three months ago. Since that time, Darren and George had had few opportunities to interact with each other apart from an occasional hallway greeting. They certainly had not discussed the organization's diversity efforts, the challenges facing ...