Sure, merit and diversity are not in opposition to each other, but merit and politics at work are. I have seen Google transform from a place where people focus

Sure, merit and diversity are not in opposition to each other, but merit and politics at work are. I have seen Google transform from a place where people focus on the users getting the best search results to the place where talking and thinking about diversity takes a lot of communication bandwidth from meetings (hopefully it's better now, as I didn't stay).