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		<title>Redefining Ability: We&#8217;ve All Got a Lot to Re-learn about Learning Disabilities</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 03:18:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrés</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Andrés T. Tapia &#8211; 
You’ve likely heard reference to the dramatic rise in ADHD diagnoses, autism,  and learning disabilities. In light of these trends, you may be wondering what is happening with today’s children. But another question, more pertinent for this blog: What is happening to tomorrow’s (and today’s) workforce?
Roughly 15% of Americans have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is the West Ready for the New Muslim Middle Class?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 12:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Welch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Susan Welch, Hewitt Research and Andrés T. Tapia -
Islam is the world’s fastest-growing religion, and the growing number of Muslims in the workforce is profoundly changing the world. So argues Tufts University professor Vali Nasr in Forces of Fortune: The Rise of the New Muslim Middle Class and What It Will Mean for Our World.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does the Term &#8220;People of Color&#8221; Do More Harm than Good?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 18:43:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrés</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Andrés T. Tapia &#8211;
Recently a high school classmate from Peru contacted me with questions about my use of the terms &#8220;communities of color&#8221; and &#8221;people of color&#8221; in this blog. Here&#8217;s part of what she wrote:
&#8220;This term  &#8216;people of color&#8217; or &#8216;personas de color,&#8217; which I also saw recently in an article written in Spanish, has got [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Immigrant Workers Test Europe&#8217;s Self Image</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 05:07:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrés</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Andrés T. Tapia; Research by Susan Welch and Leonardo Sforza, Hewitt Research in US and Europe &#8211;
A massive demographic tectonic shift is rattling Europe &#8212; its unsettling tremors reshaping the European Union&#8217;s human geography; the aftershocks splintering European notions of egalité, fairness, and nationality; the fear of a cataclysmic population earthquake polarizing the citizenry.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oscar Night Nominees: Still Searching for the White Knight</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 02:07:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrés</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Andrés T. Tapia -
For different reasons I was entertained, challenged, and/or inspired by Avatar, District 9, Precious, and The Blind Side, four of this year&#8217;s ten Oscar nominees.  Smart script writing, convincing performances, off-the-chain special effects, first-class editing. And I simply loved the first two sci-fi flicks.
So I hate to rain on this parade, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ten Ways the World Has Been Turned Upside Down: Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:11:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrés</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ In my last post I offered  five ways businesses are finding that the world is upside down. Here are five more changes of historic proportions transforming the economic, political and social landscapes in which we do business:

#6 To have a disability is to be differently abled. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, one in five [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Law Firm Diversity: Be Careful What You Ask For</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 21:34:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrés</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Andrés T. Tapia - 
Are law firms that are pursuing diversity truly ready to get what they ask for? One of the most troublesome realities of successful diversity recruiting strategies has been the reality of the high turnover of the women and minorities that were brought in the door. It turns out that most of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>America&#8217;s Unhappy Workers &#8211; Inclusion, Creativity, Flexibility Key to Turning Things Around</title>
		<link>http://inclusionparadox.com/americas-unhappy-workers-inclusion-creativity-flexibility-key-to-turning-things-around/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:55:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrés</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the Conference Board&#8217;s new report on job satisfaction in the United States, the news is not good. In 2009 only 45 percent of Americans reported being satisfied with their jobs, compared to 61 when the survey was first conducted  in 1987. And the culprit is not the recession&#8211;overall, job satisfaction has been declining [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Reader Writes: &#8220;How can we be the change that we want to see when we find ourselves working in organizations that do not empower diverse people with different approaches and ideas to reach their full potential?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://inclusionparadox.com/a-reader-writes-how-can-we-be-the-change-that-we-want-to-see-when-we-find-ourselves-working-in-organizations-that-do-not-empower-diverse-people-with-different-approaches-and-ideas-to-reach-their-fu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 06:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrés</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I received a moving email from a reader who confirmed all the reasons why I wrote The Inclusion Paradox &#8211; to connect, to inspire, and to catalyze changes that tap the power of diversity.  She asks important questions about what individuals can do in the face of rigid structures that block the changes they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Diversity Justice: Hope for When Despair Is Deep</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 23:09:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrés</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Monday, January 18th, 2009, in commemoration of his birthday and holiday, millions will hear excerpts from Martin Luther King, Jr.&#8217;s &#8220;I Have a Dream Speech&#8221; &#8211; the most well-known of his many memorable and civilization changing utterances. In the spirit of broadening our exposure to his other messages, I have chosen to highlight a different speech, one [...]]]></description>
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