WDLS Boston 2010: Take-aways from conference day 1

EMC Welcome  & Opening remarks + keynote Andrés Tapia

Foto Andrés Tapia, Opening Keynote 

• We could kill a company if we miss innovation and if we turn off our minds from competiveness and change. 

• Today more than ever economies need workforces where people are feeling engaged and can give their best.

• Embracing diversity means creating environments where people feel comfortable and can be innovative.

Overview of WDLS Boston 2010

Black to the future: from Martin Luther King to Obama

• Celebrating new knowledge, new ways of communicating through embracing new social networks

• Diversity is opening up the horizon for people from different backgrounds to come in. It means creating the right environments for innovation knowing that innovation is critical for the success of a company

• Talking about diversity as innovation to the business case is connecting people to the rest of the world

Cross section of attendees 2010

• Diversity is how to improve our organisation by opening up our minds, ears, and eyes to people from and with different backgrounds

• Diversity is for everyone and it means taking full advantage of the diverse and unique backgrounds of people.

Panel: Global people Management: Engagement, Productivity
and Innovation with Norbert Pauser from the Austrian Delegation

The first Conference day was not only very productive, inspiring and thought provoking but also very intensive and tiring, combined with intensive jet-leg.

Come back tomorrow for the  next feedback!