Robots and Me

thanks to Prawny of Pixabay Dominic Cummings, as usual, has channelled the spirit of the age in his recent recruitment pitch for Number 10 .  Master of precision phrasing, he needed fewer characters than a Tweet to rouse my inner Derek Jameson and smack down hard on one of the hottest HR buttons: “People in SW1 talk a lot about ‘diversity’ but they rarely mean ‘true cognitive diversity’. They are usually babbling about ‘gender identity diversity blah blah’. What SW1 needs is not more drivel about ‘identity’ and ‘diversity’ from Oxbridge humanities graduates but more  genuine cognitive diversity .” I’ll defend the manifold values of an English degree (seriously) in a future blog, but as I sit here blinking with 2020 vision, it’s time to challenge Cummings, McKinsey, the Harvard Business Review and the management blogosphere on the supremacy of cognitive, as opposed to other, diversity.  So, what exactly is diversity, cognitive or otherwise? Diversity – h...