Most of us can understand why a big company might need a CEO, CFO, CIO, and COO. But a top-level diversity boss? What’s that about? Today there are CDOs in the executive suites of most U.S. corporations, including AT&T, Dell, Bank of America, Johnson & Johnson, and Procter & Gamble, as well as at the helm of such leading universities as Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. Each of these is a member of some minority -- African American, Hispanic, Asian, and/or female. There are no Anglo-American CDOs, even though in states like California Anglos are already a de facto minority. Curious about this new leadership anomaly, I decided to Google it. The first source address that popped up was an article in Scientific American titled “How Diversity Makes Us Smarter” by Katherine W. Phillips. Ms. Phillips is a “professor of leadership and ethics” at Columbia Business School, which, one might suppose, makes her something of an expert. Given the...(Read Full Article)