IDG Contributor Network: Why we are going about diversity all wrong

Is diversity good for your business? When answering this question, supporters of diversity point to the growing number of studies that show companies with greater diversity outperform the competition. I see two major reasons why these studies, compelling as they may be, are not moving the needle on diversity.First, these studies show correlation, which is indicative of two phenomena occurring together, but they cannot show causality -- i.e., which is the cause and which is the effect. Take