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MICHAEL BUSH:
Michael C. Bush is CEO of Great Place to Work, the global consulting and analytics firm that produces the annual Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For list, the 100 Best Workplaces for Women list, the Best Workplaces for Diversity list, and dozens of other distinguished workplace rankings around the world.
Driven by a love of business and an unwavering commitment to fair and equitable treatment, Michael joined Great Place to Work as CEO in 2015, bringing 30 years of experience leading and growing organizations. This includes serving as CEO of Tetra Tech Communications, which he grew from $40 million to $300 million in revenues. Michael is a former member of President Obama’s White House Business Council and a founding board member of the private equity seed-fund, Fund Good Jobs, which invests in small inner-city businesses.
Since 2015, Michael has expanded Great Place to Work’s global mission to build a better world by helping organizations create Great Places to Work not just for some, but For All. Under his leadership, the firm has developed a higher standard of excellence that accounts for fair and equitable treatment of employees across demographic groups, as well as executive leader effectiveness, innovation, and financial sustainability.
Michael has led the firm’s migration to a SaaS-enabled survey platform that offers real-time predictive people analytics. This allows leaders to take immediate, targeted action to improve their leadership and financial performance.
His new book, A Great Place to Work For All (2018) outlines the compelling business and social benefits that come from these efforts. He is also a frequent speaker on great workplaces, diversity and inclusion efforts, and the connection to business results.
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TRANSCRIPT:
Michael Bush: We choose not to talk a lot about diversity and inclusion. We’re not running from the topic.
We actually feel like we’re addressing it head on using analytics and revenue and profit to drive the conversation versus some moral imperative. And what that means is that it’s not about fairness and equality alone, it’s about equity, which is about people getting - if you treat someone as a person they need a little more of something than perhaps someone else.
And actually if you treat everyone the same you are not going to get the best out of everyone.
So equality can be used, in fact, to exclude people and to make the environment a place that certain groups of people don’t want to be in because you’re treating everyone the same. That’s just not the way humans work.
You know, I have two kids. One of them might need (when they were young) violin lessons. Another one might need dental care. Well the dental care costs a lot more than the violin lessons, but they both got something that they needed but it wasn’t necessarily ever equal. But it’s addressing people where they are.
We also find that diversity and inclusion, once you bring up those words tension goes up in the room, because what happens is when you say that what people think is race but they don’t want to talk about it because they don’t know how to talk about that.
So they awkwardly talk about diversity and inclusion and the problem that needs to be addressed gets diluted. We begin to talk about - we can’t talk about race so then we just say “people of color” and “people majority” because we can’t say “race”.
And then we talk about men and women because that’s easier than race. And then what about the di...
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[@devinbraun1852]

Much wisdom in these words; which is one of the reasons we, as a society, should continue to see the value of the liberal arts education. Unfortunately, our historical illiteracy is not limited to the younger generations, I know plenty of people 50+ who believe, often with fervent commitment, in things that are factually false.

[@IronMan-tk8uc]

Couldn't said it better! This man is awesome.

[@jonbennett6305]

I love this man~! America needs to listen to him.....parents please listen...

[@Turner9090]

This is why I love reading their letters and diary’s

[@nohandle62]

The problem is disrespect of what the FF gave us. "Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction."

[@DailyLifeSolution]

Most of the people sadly do not value freedom.

[@matthewfurnari-omara2079]

Awesome video.

[@Jubilo1]

A superb explanation!

[@Jubilo1]

McCullough says "Founders," not "Founding Fathers." A nod to PC? If yes, then he is part of the problem.

[@OpenTruthMinistry]

Awesome.

[@loganm1242]

Wow

[@nullskull6860]

how does this only have 9000 views?

[@davidbarton675]

God bless our founding fathers and thank God for them and God bless the United States of America🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@powerfulstrong5673]

I am not an American. The United States Declaration of Independence was actually inspired and influenced by the widespread publication and circulation of pamphlets of "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine! Before the widespread circulation of "Common Sense", there were no Revolutionary patriots who openly advocated American Independence from British Empire! I just don't know why Thomas Paine is not considered as one of the Founders of the United States!

[@thehealthychefri]

Americans were told they were great and brave! The compulsory, factory modeled public school system wasn't designed to teach, but to conform and be passive! America is 245 years old, which in years of a country is primitive at best!

[@jcolt84]

He says that we all men are created. Equal part, was written by a man who owned slaves in bondage, assuming that either, he didn't really believe that I'm going to created equal, or that he didn't understand the relationship that Thomas Jefferson had with his slaves. Like the one slave, whom he was in love with, made children with, and whom he left his estate when he passed away. what an ironic misunderstanding of Thomas Jefferson, for a video that is supposed to be explaining what Americans fail to understand about their founding fathers.

[@jamesrivera4947]

In my lifetime, the United States has always been more innovative and clever than reflective and wise 😏

[@geoffreyvoeth3993]

why are our US Leaders not required to be educated in and loyal to the formation of the United States instead of the ludicrous idea of "Fellow Americans" ?

[@khaos5085]

The founding fathers were hated for not being Christians.

[@freddo6941]

Stupid statement. Most of them were deists. Franklin didn't prescribe to a particular religion but nonetheless spoke of the importance of religion in society. John Adams was deeply religious.

[@nohandle62]

They were Deists, which is non-denominational. Better than Christians. Open-minded.

[@waynehanson343]

All English colonists were English Protestants (Anglicans and Puritans) who gave the world the greatest nation and system of government in recorded history. @@freddo6941

[@DavidJGillCA]

A bit of exaggeration on the importance history BUT in part what is wrong with Trump is his almost total ignorance of history.

[@nohandle62]

Who cares. He was a good leader and he loved this country. He did nothing to harm it unlike the current occupant of the White House.

[@peterkropotkin1158]

@@nohandle62 your joking right?

[@SouthernRebels94]

Trump is not ignorant of history Trump was following the constitution and was practicing what the founding fathers has taught. But I do know that Democrats are very ignorant when it comes to America history and are ignorant to what the founding fathers taught.

[@DavidJGillCA]

@@peterkropotkin1158 Total ignorance of history- that's Trump. He didn't know that Lincoln was a Republican.

[@kirkbowyer3249]

SAINT JOHN 14:6 JESUS SAITH TO HIM: I AM THE WAY, AND THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE. NO MAN COMETH TO THE FATHER, BUT BY ME.