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RESOURCES
NAACP - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
NCAI - National Congress of American Indians
LIF - Latino Issues Forum
AAFE - Asian Americans for Equality
NOW - National Organization for Women
MEDIA and ARTICLES
Members of the media interested in learning more about Joe and the Without Excuses platform are invited to download our press kit below. It contains essential information about Joe, helpful items as they pertain to diversity, and a small sample of the various Without Excuses offerings. If you would like to contact us about Joe and the Without Excuses initiative, please email us at media@withoutexcuses.com.
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ARTICLES
The New York Times
"Too many workers are waiting for the equivalent of the 'Career Fairy' to come down and appoint them a divine mentor who can look out for their interests."
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"Do stereotypes exist? Yes, to a certain degree. The only way to solve the problem is to address it with honest, unabashed dialogue.”
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Collabor Blabber
"Remember playing kickball when you were a kid?" he started out. "You'd all gather and wait for the kid with the ball to come out. The kid with the ball made the rules. If you didn't like the rules, you could either find a different game, or get your own ball."
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Essence
“I can tell you without hesitation that the company is doing some of the most significant work out there with regards to advancing the interests of African-American women.”
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Bend Weekly
"The NFL, by application of the 'Rooney Rule,' understood that a Diversity effort without accountability was just rhetoric. Corporate America can learn much from abandoning their long-standing 'culture of excuses' and embracing the NFL's practice of meaningful commitment and, obvious, consequences.
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Boston.com
Not only does this book effectively deal with all the usual excuses for not supporting diversity, it provides excellent resources such as websites to help find candidates online and lists of top degree-granting institutions for blacks, Hispanics, and Asian-Americans.
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International Herald Tribune
"These types of relationships take chemistry, synergy and trust, none of which happen overnight."
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Philanthropy.com
"We've all seen them: an organization at a total disconnect with its constituency or a foundation whose endowment has plummeted or a nonprofit that has become mired in mismanagement scandals," he says. "All these are often a direct result of a lack of diverse thinking on boards."
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Private Clubs
The biggest thing that’s keeping businesses stuck is the word ‘can’t.’ There’s a suspension of business logic, where people say, ‘We can’t find the right people’ and then they just give up.”
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Best Practices in HR
"However, diversity isn’t just nice to have anymore; it’s a must-have for a company’s survival, according to Watson."
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Washington Business Journal
"Watson offers strategies and exercises for organizaions serious about recruiting a diverse work force. But those employers must be ready to be convinced that it's possible."
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Black Enterprise
"It used to be that being African American ws always a disadvantage. That has shifted."
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Black Enterprise
"One must have discipline to accomplish anything significant, whether it is the 100-meter dash in the Olympics or leading a company."
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Black Enterprise
"If I told you any other market or opportunity in your business was growing at that type of rate, you would be moving heaven and earth to figure out how to capitalize on it, so why isn’t that happening with diversity?”
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The Wall Street Journal
"The kumbaya approach...helped open communication but ultimately was superficial."
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WE
"Instead of redoubling their efforts and redirecting their personnel, they make excuses and wring their hands."
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USA Today
"I urge you to shed any semblance of the "go it alone" mentality and embrace the potential within this world of leveraged opportunity."
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The Washington Post
"Martin Luther King fundamentally represents to people what I call 'The Promise'”
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Business 2.0
"If I say call me back, do it!"
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Fast Company
"People say they want to be inclusive, and I believe many of them mean it. But people are also scared to death about the steps necessary to do it."
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