I am enjoying your posts. I too was struck by the Kozy Shack Pudding story and the founder’s recent obit. Thinking about the Glamour story, it strikes me that the more inclusive, tolerant, and open the work environment, the higher level of integrity and authenticity. This is driven by the slow, culturual process of recognizing that superficial differences — like hair styles, body style or to an extreme — body art and piercing — are just that — superficial indicators and lousy predictors of the contribution and value one can make to an organization. I am not sure Conde Nast is all that open of an environment — while “The Devil Wears Prada” was fiction, it was based on the author’s work experience at the company. So, it is ironic that Glamour would get into this PR mess given that Conde Nast (the parent company) typically hires, develops and retains people who “look” the part.

Keep up the good writing. Thank you!