Sure - diversity sparks innovation big time, just like cars' color variety sparks safety, or like clothes size spark fashion.
Just few years ago Apple started all this diversity bull **** over talents support and look where Apple's quality and innovation now: for 3 years at least Apple been releasing only new emojis.
Clearly you are not part of a group in the engineering field that is underrepresented.
I have been an engineer in Silicon Valley for more than three decades and I've seen diversity in the valley diminish.
Why? People who have been promoted into management and typically hire people that look like themselves, passing over candidates that are otherwise very qualified. They have not been trained to recognize internal bias.
The fallacy you seem to embrace is that diversity candidates are somehow unqualified for the jobs.
This is a stupid and ignorant position. The role of diversity is to seek out
qualified candidates that add diversity to an otherwise non-diverse and mostly homogeneous workforce.
You position is exactly the opposite of real life. What you get when people hire people that look like themselves in a workforce with very little diversity in thought are under qualified candidates that get the jobs because the interviewer feels good because the candidate looks like them and talks like them.
Diversity programs seek to broaden and bring in new thought and ideas; just what you seem to miss. Unless you get new ideas and new thought you get stagnation in engineering.If everyone thinks the same way, you do not have anyone "thinking outside the box" and you get nothing new or innovative.
I have been hired to come in and manage some of those dysfunctional teams at various companies.
The people that are hired to change the world for everyone else are the most resistant to change. This why companies spend an enormous amount of money on how to manage change and change management consultants.
So before you decide to challenge my qualifications or what I have to say, ponder this:
I hold multiple degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering.
I've been a Director of Engineering at a public company.
When I'm not in management I'm a Principal level engineer.
I'm a Senior Member if the IEEE.
I have either been an architect, technical lead or managed design teams that have done GSM, H.264, storage and networking in technologies ranging all the way down to 16nm FinFET.
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It was Steve that kept them together. I am worried under Tim Cook Apple is getting more B players than A players.
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Steve Jobs is Irreplaceable.
Very difficult to replace, but not irreplaceable.
Maybe they haven't looked hard enough for the right mind?
Maybe the person to lead is not the same person to innovate?
Maybe it's two to replace one?