“Why am I afraid to tell you who I really am?”

Leadership and Sexual Orientation
...for a class at the Harvard Business School taught by Bill George, author of the book, “True North” and the former chief executive of Medtronic...this case study is the first at Harvard to take a look at sexual orientation and leadership...far broader implications than the issue of sexual orientation. "The color of our skin and our genders are obvious, but many of us have hidden differences,” he said. And in using this case, he said he wanted students to ask themselves the question, “Why am I afraid to tell you who I really am?”

“In any organization, there will be people with these kinds of intolerant and illegitimate feelings, so you can’t be surprised when people behave this way,” he said. “You do your best to enact policies, which can affect behavior if not what is in people’s hearts. After a while, if people behave in a tolerant way, they may start to think in a tolerant way.” Whole article here.
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