Chapter 10Empowering the Hispanic Employee and an Organization’s Future

When I was once interviewed by CNN reporter Louise Schiavone, one producer, without any malice, casually asked me what could be done to keep “them”—Hispanics, Latinos, and Latins—from “taking over” the country. I smiled politely and gave my standard reply: “Go home and get pregnant.” That’s what Vladimir Putin is telling his countrymen: the government will pay ethnic Russians to have more ethnic Russian babies. The only way to “stop” Hispanics from “taking over” is for non-Hispanic Americans to have more non-Hispanic American babies.

What will your organization’s workforce look like a decade from now? Management needs to take a look around and see, precisely, how the demographics ...

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