{"id":18455,"date":"2024-03-20T07:08:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T14:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=18455"},"modified":"2024-03-13T11:25:47","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T18:25:47","slug":"dei-vs-mea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=18455","title":{"rendered":"DEI vs MEA"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
vs
Merit, Experience and Attitude.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you needed to choose a doctor and you had data, would your criteria be more DEI or more MEA?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How about when you were choosing a lawyer, a restaurant manager or a football coach?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I rest my case. It is not popular to say but in our personal decision making we are mostly MEA. In the long run only natural monopolies can hire based on DEI and survive in the marketplace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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