Welcome to Teds Orlando, the blog that will help build our future city. This blog is meant to highlight key issues that affect our community, but most importantly give everyone the power to make decisions and influence their environment more than ever before. This Blog is one of the tools that makes Ted's Community the future model for cities everywhere. We look forward to many of you joining us, and with us, became an influential power to improve life here in Orlando.
From The Harvard Business Review, August, 2016, “Why Diversity Programs Fail” “In analyzing three decades’ worth of data from more than 800 U.S. firms and interviewing hundreds of line managers and executives at length, we’ve seen that companies get better results when they ease up on the control tactics. It’s more effective to engage managers in solving the problem, increase their on-the-job contact with female and minority workers, and promote social accountability—the desire to look fair-minded. That’s why interventions such as targeted college recruitment, mentoring programs, self-managed teams, and task forces have boosted diversity in businesses. Some of the most effective solutions aren’t even designed with diversity in mind. ” Teds Community is a model that is sustainable whereas many of the diversity attempts today are at best, well-intentioned, at the worst, counterproductive in major ways. Teds Community has as its goal to transform inner cities into profitable self-sust...
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