Successfully Managing a Diverse Workforce To be successful in managing diversity in the workplace, you must first understand it from a personal perspective. Being able to draw knowledge and strength from your lineage and differences shows profound facets of character. These traits show themselves brilliantly when dealing with individuals of different cultures and backgrounds in the workplace. A leader with this ability can manage everyone uniquely and ethically and is attuned to what differentiates one collaborator from another. Once you have a solid understanding of who they are, then and only then can you expect to have the aptitude to lead a diverse team. dynamic relationships, culture and values) and people (now seen as the organisation's greatest strategic asset)”. (Gaunt, 2007). Tactics is defined as the art or skill of employing available means to achieve an end. This is exactly what you need to do when you think about managing a diverse group, especially one on a global scale. If you are the CEO of a company in the United States, how do you properly manage and account for all the assets on the other side of the world? If left to chance there is the possibility of risking millions if not billions of dollars. If human resources are not considered as primary capital, the vision of success is already distorted. A company is only as strong as its people. These workers may seem insignificant, but they are strong enough to shut down your business if not properly taken care of. Where most officers lose sight is precisely because of a lack of communication or education that these people are replaceable. People are not cogs in a machine that can simply be replaced if worn out. The natives of these lands have stories steeped in culture and customs that must be respected otherwise the maximum desired result will never be achieved. Once a capable entrepreneur has acquired a good sense of what diversity is, he must convey this vision to his management to maximize its effectiveness. "Today's managers also need strong human capital, as well as financial capital, development skills and experience with employee engagement, building effective cultures and behaviors to implement strategy, and the ability to make organizational changes effective" (Gaunt 2007). The main responsibility of management is to convey the vision of the entrepreneur to the team to rally the team towards a common goal.