Equal footing and access20
Equal footing and access
Hidden asymmetry: how unequal access to opportunities distorts results
Unequal treatment rarely arrives as an explicit prohibition. More often, it is concealed in a series of decisions, each of which seems logical on its own.
When access to customers, information, mentoring and strategic projects is distributed unequally from the outset, even the most precise measures of final performance produce a misleading result. The system measures the finish but overlooks the fact that participants did not begin at the same starting line. This is not merely a moral or legal problem. It is a defect in the structure of the business.
Hidden asymmetry distorts the assessment of talent and deprives a business of people and customers whose value it has failed to see. A resilient organisation examines not only the result but also the opportunities that made it possible.
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