John A. Gentry

Who hasn't?

What organization hasn't?

Well, it's not organization.

It's people within them.

So I talk with a number of people who are working in government now, as well as a lot of formers.

And the people who are still in government,

tell me pretty clearly they're keeping their heads down.

The people in government who don't like this, and there are some, they keep their heads down.

So they're saying, it's now, in the Biden years, it's reached the point now where DEI policies and Obama were mandates for management

Now, in the Biden years, add the A, you've now added DEI requirements to annual performance appraisals.

The old PAR, remember, at CIA?

So your performance appraisal now at many of these agencies, if not all of them,

now says you're an active participant in DEI.

Are you serious?

I am absolutely serious.

So you've still got, though, I am told by people who are still there, you've still got people who think this is really a bad idea.

for political reasons and also performance reasons, and maybe we can talk about how this affects operational performance.

But every one of these people who I talk to is saying, I can't fight it.

It's an utter losing situation to fight it.

So you do one of two things.