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Author is saying that early decisions made by an un-diverse Twitter staff led to the company's problems today (as it's having hard time growing [partly] because
by omonra 11y ago
Author is saying that early decisions made by an un-diverse Twitter staff led to the company's problems today (as it's having hard time growing [partly] because it has an abuse problem [I guess towards women]).
Does it not occur to him that having a more diverse team might have led to other bad decisions being made which would mean that company would have never even got off the ground?
His logic strikes me as someone looking at a floundering NBA team and saying 'Well, if you just replaced a few players with women, you might have had a much better chance of winning the playoffs'.
In other words - if more diverse teams led to better results, wouldn't there be a bunch of examples for this? As it stands, the best companies in SV are all terribly undiverse.
- josteink 11y agoSo basically the usual unfounded claims that "diversity" automagically leads to better results with no data to back it? If the author genuinely believes that, why doesn't he/she start a "diverse" Twitter-clone and show everyone how much better they'll be doing?
- intortus 11y agoThere are demonstrable elements to twitter's decline that can be arguably connected to a lack of diversity in leadership. That's a tangible step above your purely speculative "well a diverse team might've done worse."
- syoc 11y agoCare to share those elements? Genuinely interested.
- elcapitan 11y agoApparently the "diversity talk stage" becomes one of the final stages of failed communities and businesses. If you can't solve the real problems, find some other problem and obsess about it :) See also: "A feminist glaciology framework for global environmental change research" http://m.phg.sagepub.com/content/early/2016/01/08/0309132515623368.long http://m.phg.sagepub.com/content/early/2016/01/08/0309132515...