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Dyslexia at Work: Prevalent or Not?
December 7, 2007
An interesting article titled Tracing Dyslexia to Business Acumen appeared yesterday (12/6/07) in The New York Times which reported the results of a study that looked at people who are dyslexic and working in the business world.
As a person with dyslexia myself, I could appreciate many of the trends that were identified. But the most compelling one was the fact that the study found 35% of the entrepreneurs surveyed to be dyslexic, as compared to only 1% of managers in corporate America who have dyslexia. The discrepancy here is astounding and begs the question, “What’s going on?”
Well, I have a theory.
The “system,” whether we are talking about education or the workplace, is flawed because it is limited to just one kind of thinking and “speaks” in only one “language.” Unfortunately, those who need to do things differently eventually self-select out and organizations end up losing the very talent that is inherent to an individual's deviation from the norm in the first place. In other words, the process is a reversed natural selection. Hence, as the numbers reveal, people migrate away from the environments that don’t support them and toward those that do.
Posted by Donna Flagg on December 7, 2007 | Comments (0)
