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At the World Economic Forum Annual Conference held by Davos, Switzerland, there are three buzzwords among politicians and business leaders: diversity, fairness and tolerance.
It is not surprising that DEI is in the minds of corporate leaders, because it is also the front and center of the White House.
Donald Trump said on a virtual appearance in Davos on Thursday: “My government has adopted action to abolish all discriminatory diversity, fairness and inclusiveness.” “The United States will once again again Become a performance -based country. “
Trump signed his administrative order on the first day of his office Demolition of the federal government’s diversity and tolerance plan. Written commands are only applicable to federal government employers, but he also mentioned that he expanded his administrative order to Worth’s comment.
According to his administrative order, his government also A targeted equal rights in the federal contract and Ordered all federal DEI staff to take leaveEssence
On the ground of Davos, DEI has always been a dialogue theme of recording and closing doors, including the potential of abandoning the commonly used first letter abbreviations and changing the external communication of certain policies.
At the first four days of the summit meeting, most company leaders who talked to CNBC reiterated that although the language may change and the internal policy may be adjusted, the company’s value will remain unchanged.
This is what the executives have to say:
Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMORGAN Chase
“We will continue to contact the Black Community and the Spiritual community, the LGBT community and the veterans community … No matter where I go-Red State, Blue State-Mayor, the governor likes our job. We have done it or any side, what we do is to improve the city, school, state, hospital, country, company, we will do more. “
Adena Friedman, CEO of Nasdaq
“For Nasdaq, we do continue to study everything we have done in the correct cultural aspect. We do believe that we think that people can become our own place, can exert our highest potential, and have a variety of views. And diversity diversity is in the background, which actually makes us a better company, so we will continue to operate in this way.
Bill Ready, Pinterest CEO
“People on our platform come from all walks of life and various backgrounds, so we are very focused on how to promote things such as tolerance AI on the platform and use things like” diversity “in our Feed … We don’t (change anything), because we see that it actually leads to better participation, and consumers’ needs for this are good for our business. “
Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins
“I think what happened was part of the plan under the DEI brand. I don’t like it. And I think the whole thing has bombed … If I sit in a room and try to solve a complex problem or, I want to be in that room in that room. There are many different brains. I don’t care if it is gender, nationality, or this is just a diverse diverse swing. I think this does trigger it all. “
Robert Smith, Vista Equity Partners CEO
“I think diversity is a great thing in business. How do I know? Because I read the data, I see the facts. When we have a diverse team, our team will be more productive. Our risk Low. We are our risks. It will benefit for a long time … we will have to browse this point, and there may be some laws to change.
Alexandr Wang, CEO Scale
“In a fiercely competitive and rapid industry in AI, I have no choice but to hire the best, smartest, and most capable people in each work within the company. Therefore, we have no choice. It can only be the elite committee … In this process, we have achieved diversity. “
