How do you define "diversity"?

[spearhead]

Hi, could you please let me know which keywords and phrases you associate with the word diversity? I'm asking because I've recently had a discussion with a company executive about this issue and he said he'd never heard this word.

[Alan]

Hi spearhead,

I am surprised your colleague hadn't heard the word. I associate it with the word variety as in wide variety. A city can be well known for its diversity of different cultures/activities/architecture. Diversify is used a lot nowadays to describe the ability to change jobs/career and retrain. The process is known as diversification referring to individuals and also manufacturing companies that have to make different components in the llight of new/changing demands.

Alan
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