Ondrej Holzman When Tim Cook isn't talking about iPhones and other Apple products, by far his favorite topic of public conversation and debate is diversity. It was about her and inclusion that he spoke to students at his alma mater, Auburn University.
Titled "A Conversation with Tim Cook: A Personal Look at Inclusion and Diversity," the Apple boss opened his talk with praise for Auburn University, saying there's "no place in the world I'd rather be." But then he went straight to the heart of the matter.
First, Cook, who graduated in 1982, advised students to prepare to meet people from different backgrounds throughout their lives and careers. "The world is more interconnected today than it was when I left school," Cook said. "That's why you really need a deep understanding of cultures around the world."
According to the CEO of the technology giant, this is especially important because many of the students he spoke to will certainly work in companies that will not only work with people from other countries, but also provide services to customers around the world.
"I've learned to not only appreciate this, but to celebrate it. What makes the world interesting is our differences, not our similarities," revealed Cook, who sees Apple's great strength in diversity.
“We believe that you can only create great products with a diverse team. And I'm talking about the broad definition of diversity. "One of the reasons Apple's products work great — and I hope you think they work great — is that the people on our teams are not just engineers and computer experts, but also artists and musicians," notes Cook, 56.
"It's the intersection of liberal arts and humanities with technology that makes our products so wonderful," he added.
Thanks @AuburnU for the warm welcome home! Great conversation with students today. #WarEagle pic.twitter.com/Bzd4WIN0O6
- Tim Cook (@tim_cook) April 6, 2017
The reason for students to prepare to meet people from different cultures from all over the world, then Tim Cook explained in response to a question from the audience, which was about managing different identities and intersectionality in the workplace. "To lead in a diverse and inclusive environment, you have to accept that you may not personally understand what some are doing," Cook began, "but that doesn't make it wrong."
“For example, someone may worship someone other than you. You don't have to understand why they do it, but you have to allow the person to do it. Not only does he have the right to do so, but he will probably also have a number of reasons and life experiences that led him to do so," added the head of Apple.
Yes, and that's why we have obsolete Mac Pro, Mac Mini and iMac. And that's why they took the functional keys from the MacBook Pro and gave them a touch bar for choosing new emojis.
Tim Cook is already worse than Steve Ballmer was at Microsoft. He doesn't understand professionals.
so i kind of agree…. unfortunately
This is propaganda again, why are you putting it here? Is this supposed to be an attack on the guild's opposition to migration? If Cook thinks that diversity in the form of a raid on a Muslim is good, then in a few years he will be kicked off the high-rise building for his different orientation. Today's immigration problem is not about people who need help, but about the introduction of hateful Islam into Western society.
Exactly - these are not people who need help. These are economic migrants, deserters, criminals and terrorists... The Islamic invasion of civilized Europe...
What on earth does diversity and quality products have to do with each other? What is this madness?
I would somehow remind some of the debaters here that even for his opinions and attitudes, Cook is the head of the largest company in the world with great products and a steeply rising share price, while they could only manage xenophobic disgust in the discussions.
Cook will probably be more right than the Czech zero compared to him. But you can also present your disgusting things further, infecting our society even more, until we become a racially pure country like Albania, Belarus or Serbia, but also an incredibly poor country. Or we can learn a lesson and be like Apple and therefore the USA. I don't know where I want to belong, you probably lean towards Serbia.
I'm not a xenophobe, but I'm honestly interested because you want to be like the USA? Because for me, in recent years, it has only been an aggressive hegemon that is trying to create a unipolar world by using methods that, if I don't have evidence, I will create them, a.k.a. "Wiggle the dog."
As for Cook's statement, I don't have the slightest problem with it, but my experience is that the more diverse the opinions, the more compromise... and if I'm not mistaken, I respected Apple because its products were questioned and without compromise... and let's face it it doesn't really happen.
Do you mind pure race? And what would you like? Multicults like in Germany or Sweden? Where a person can no longer safely walk down the street and travel in public transport during the day without being threatened by black migrants...
That company is so successful thanks to Jobs, Cook is just riding the wave. Did Jobs say something like that? No, he built the company without similar ideological statements and approaches and was hugely successful anyway..
Steve Jobs hired Tim Cook at Apple because he was the best in logistics out of everyone who came into consideration. If Apple sells 70 million iPhones per quarter, then of course it needs such a person.
Criticism of Apple comes because Apple has neglected macOS devices for professionals. Instead, Apple is dealing with diversity, inclusion, rainbow marches, genderless emoji, … .
And Apple is still suspected of tax evasion. In the European Union, he has to pay EUR 13 billion. At the same time, Apple is waiting for when it will be able to transfer billions of USD from tax havens to the USA at a significantly lower tax rate.
If Apple wants to promote diversity, let it pay proper taxes in the EU and the US and let it focus on devices for professionals.
Don't try to discuss things you know nothing about. Diversity, like other globalist theories, has nothing to do with the success of Western civilization. On the contrary, it came about thanks to a strong emphasis on nationalism and discipline. Only at the end of the 60s did the gradual destruction of the Christian-Jewish traditions on which civilization grew and their replacement by global elites invented constructs ideologically based on the so-called New Left.
Cook is the bearer of these ideas, (he is not alone, most of the elites -> heads of multinational corporations are with him and the reasons that lead them to this are ideological and economic) which in their essence have no positive meaning, which they like to hide behind. Diversity is nothing but the gradual elimination of Christian-Jewish culture. With all the consequences that follow. The LGBT lobby and other social constructs from the left political spectrum also work in the same way. The dirt behind it goes back to the geopolitical games of Mr. Soros or the Clinton family or Saudi Arabian sheikhs.
I would be more careful. Rather than nationalism, it was capitalism that led to the success of Western civilization. Nationalism just led us to two world wars. Unfortunately, it is starting to flourish here again. And diversity is also important. What's wrong with picking up the good things from foreign cultures? Let's go to Jobsoj who admired Eastern culture, he was also on a trip to India. And he automatically projected all these things into Apple.
The war, and the second world war, was caused by Nazism, not nationalism.
Of course, Nazism would not have been able to do anything essential by itself, i.e. without the money that destroyed Germany after the First World War, which was also affected by post-war reparations, did not have. However, this financial matter was solved for Nazism by the then elites and then top corporations (Whether it was Ford, from the USA or Krupp directly from Germany, the money (not only) of these gentlemen financed the pre-election campaigns of the NSDAP and effectively marketed Hitler to the masses as their promising project against the increasing preferences of the communists.
We already know how it turned out today. And today, the new elites of rich people, bankers, and corporate leaders will once again dictate to us what we should like and what ideals we should accept as our own? So that we, as humanity, pay millions of dead again and find out, in a Cimrman style, that this is not the case? Ghettos are already expanding in Sweden, France, and Germany, and attacks by people who had nothing to look forward to here a few years ago are on the rise, and I attribute their victims to the account of the new generation of elites.
I congratulate you, you have gathered global elites, diversity, social constructs and geopolitical games into one post, and of course you have not forgotten compulsory Islam either. Now is the time to see if you at least understand the flood of foreign words read from the Konspirator amateur handbook. An addition in the form of Soros, the Clintons and the like is just a smiley face behind your performance. I advise you, go with that number to Idnes or a similar mall, you will be a star there.
Stupidity and naivety rule the world! The speaker Mr.H is absolutely right. The courts are the biggest sponsor of Wahhabism in the world, they give 5% of their GDP to the spread of Islam, no wonder they are unable to export anything other than oil, and as the rulers of Mecca, it is a source of money for them, the more believers, the greater the contribution to Mecca. Soros was one of Clitonova's biggest sponsors, and the fact that Clitonova is a murderer who had Gaddafi murdered is not even worth talking about. Thanks to her and Obama's disastrous foreign policy, we now have migration waves, after all, the USA has been doing evil all over the world for the last two decades. Soros' non-profits serve to undermine the authority of sovereign states and promote the interests of ruling elites.
Thanks. I don't have the strength to explain to people like Dalibor above what it's all about in detail. That would take up a book and that is not possible in the discussion.
It is in a nutshell as you write. Unfortunately, in order for a person to understand what I or you wrote, he needs to have found out something, read something and then also have a little natural critical thinking. Either someone has it or they don't.
The paradox is that Cook himself carefully selects all his employees, hunts and buys brains all over the world. That's the diversity. I don't understand why many European countries didn't do it like that. Immigration policy should work on the same principle, the state should choose the best. Then there is the aspect of protecting people who have been persecuted by war or other reasons, but again it must be a matter of thorough screening and selection. What Germany or Sweden is doing right now is crazy and a total mess!
I think this article talks about the problem I am pointing out clearly.
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/04/10/red-bull-slams-mass-migration-eu/
This is exactly how I was thinking, why EU politicians don't do the same, why they want to destroy themselves at all costs. Then the question arises as to whether he does so out of pure naivety or if there is a deeper purpose in it.
Neither option would surprise me.
Please don't explain anything to anyone. But it's good that there are two of you here, it's nice how you take notes :-) I always enjoy it when someone uses critical thinking, while I myself have a problem with grasping the concept, which I failed to contribute in the style of the more the merrier, o he doesn't even mention any context. Your post is a waste of words for people with "critical thinking", of which I can read hundreds a day, because you and your ilk copy it to each other. So much for your "critical thinking", or any thinking at all, if you can talk about it in your case.
Argumentally very weak. Unsurprisingly.
Give me something to argue for. Then I don't see it anywhere, unsurprisingly.
So I will only be very brief, even though the issue is very extensive, because answering each of you like this, I am not doing anything else and it will not be enough. Unfortunately, people like you have one thing in common. Instead of applying your self-proclaimed "natural critical thinking", on the contrary, you stick to the opposite sides of what you consider to be wrong. This is typical and naturally aligned for most people with a normal Gaussian distribution of intelligence. It is called radicalization, and history has shown us many times that it was and is the root of extremism, which logically has never brought anything good and is not resolved at all. But the world is not only black and white, we have never lived in such a world and we will never live in it, especially today, when anyone can move from one side of the globe to the other in a few hours. It is all the more exciting for the Czechs, who have been wired for years, and for those who haven't pulled their heels out anywhere even today, I believe it's even scary.
It may be surprising for you, but I agree with you that we are facing a problem, just as human society faced X other problems in the past, but I fundamentally disagree with your demagogic interpretation. I am ending this discussion from all sides, because it is quite clear to me that it will lead nowhere.
Why do you insult a person with a different opinion? Why are you starting with demagoguery about Serbia? The speaker stated that the head of the company should devote himself more to the company and its business and perhaps less to the visibility of political topics. Can you oppose and hold a discussion with this attitude, or just throw spin on Daniel Cado?
Why does the new-left (neo-Marxist) construct "diversity" not work?
Because if we allow all cultures to express their desires, then naturally the first culture with aggressive tendencies (Islam) will naturally assert its ideas over the others. One culture must always prevail in the end. And if it is not contemporary Christian-Jewish, then it will be Islamic.
Not everyone has family roots from an Islamic country like me, so not everyone knows what Islam is about, that's why they succeed in lying to the masses about peaceful Islam. Islam is peaceful only if it is not the dominant culture. We're doing everything we can to make it happen soon, with the help of elitists like Cook. But then the world as we know it will disappear, and with it the leftists' attempts at diversity, LGBT and other constructs.
Let's show Cook that we his customers are fed up with his stupid bullshit, we have FB, Twitter, let's start an avalanche of comments.
So today the last thing that kept me at Apple as a developer fell. And that was the Sketch software.
I can now safely leave for Linux: https://designer.io
Apple sucks, make more awesome emoticons and until you put ESC back on your keyboard, you're out of luck.