How to solve Silicon Valley's diversity challenges? Google has ideas; CNet, 4/18/15

Richard Nieva, CNet; How to solve Silicon Valley's diversity challenges? Google has ideas:

"But fixing Silicon Valley's preference for white males won't happen immediately.

"We have a lot more work to do," said Laszlo Bock, Google's head of people operations (Google parlance for human resources). "For a long time we'll have a lot more work to do."

But now the question is how, and he mentions part of it in a book on management he released this month called "Work Rules!" In it, he talks about the nuances of working and management at Google, including how the company nudges women to nominate themselves for promotions, as it is done in the engineering world. In an interview, another program he also talked about was a "Googler in Residence" initiative started with historically black colleges."