Katherine Lanpher - "This is why I personally care about diversity: it’s the canary in the coal mine for meritocracy. When we see extremely skewed demographics, we have very good reason to suspect that something is wrong with our selection process, that it’s not actually as meritocratic as it could be. And I believe that is exactly what is happening in Silicon Valley."

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Katherine Lanpher is an award-winning print and broadcast journalist, host of "Upstairs at the Square," an interview series that can be found at bn.com/upstairs, host of TIME Financial Toolkit on Time.com, contributing editor to More magazine, and substitute host for “The Takeaway,” a collaboration of WNYC, PRI, the BBC and the New York Times. Springboard Press published her essay collection, Leap Days. Contact: leapdays@gmail.com. Any comments? They go here..... Would love to hear from you.....

November 19, 2011

"This is why I personally care about diversity: it’s the canary in the coal mine for meritocracy. When we see extremely skewed demographics, we have very good reason to suspect that something is wrong with our selection process, that it’s not actually as meritocratic as it could be. And I believe that is exactly what is happening in Silicon Valley."

changetheratio:

Bravo, Eric Ries.

Readers of this blog will recognize a lot of the matter-of-fact common sense points here - Ries is not saying anything new. He’s just the one saying it. That matters. A lot.

Read this.

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