“Empathy also is the competency most strongly linked to tolerance for diversity. People who score high in empathy respect and relate well to people from varied backgrounds, and they are more likely to understand diverse world views. Highly empathic individuals also are likely to see diversity as a strength.”
Cary Cherniss and Mitchel Adler
“Different people, like different communities, have different strengths, and that the only thing that works is using our different strengths together.”
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”Different works, and strong organizations embrace differences.”
Jacki Hoffman-Zehner
“Differences can be the sources of creativity, or they can serve to divide.”
Craig Runde
“Our ‘opponents’ are our co-creators, for they have something to give which we have not. The basis of all cooperative activity is integrated diversity.... What people often mean by getting rid of conflict is getting rid of diversity, and it is of the utmost importance that these should not be considered the same. We may wish to abolish conflict, but we cannot get rid of diversity. We must face life as it is and understand that diversity is its most essential feature... Fear of difference is dread of life itself. It is possible to conceive conflict as not necessarily a wasteful outbreak of incompatibilities, but a normal process by which socially valuable differences register themselves for the enrichment of all concerned.”
Mary Parker Follett