Culture & Innovation – Pt II
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Culture & Innovation – Pt I
I have long contended that innovation lies at the intersection of creativity and diversity. My argument is that to get real innovation in an organization requires a well managed, diverse team of people, with the freedom to try new ideas and develop new ways of doing things. The problem as I see it is that most […]
Managing Culture & Diversity in the Modern Workplace
Even before the notion of “the global marketplace” became a buzzword, banking organizations of all varieties understood and recognized the role of culture and diversity in doing business overseas. But culture isn’t just an international phenomenon, nor is it one driven entirely by geographic and ethnic boundaries. And while banking leaders may recognize the importance of culture […]
How Can Shared Learning Experiences Benefit Your Business?
Many companies have used shared learning experiences in the past, but it’s not as popular as it used to be. I think this is a mistake. Shared learning experiences can help create a common awareness of what is important between workers while at the same time helping to forge relationships that make work more meaningful and […]
Why Understanding Culture Matters
Much of the work of performing culture audits as a part of diversity work misses the point. It is clear that an unexamined culture will likely continue to create an environment that will tolerate rather than appreciate and manage diversity. But to conduct culture audits under the guise that the culture must change to allow diversity […]
CultureScan™: 3 Steps to Determine an Organization’s Readiness for Diversity Management
Before a consultant can get started helping an organization implement an effective diversity management strategy, its important to know what kind of culture surrounds diversity within a company. In other words, the consultant needs to know the default way diversity is understood by an organizations employees. Only once this is clear, can the consultant properly […]
Blind Spots: We All Have Them, But We Don’t All Manage Them
Everybody has blind spots. They arise from the fact that, as human beings, we are situated in a world that elicits responses from us at all times – often without providing an opportunity to stop and think about how we go about responding. In other words, we all have a default way of acting in the world. […]
Radical Selection: Who Should be Involved and How to Recruit Them
I just served as a resource person for a client I’m working with. I did so because I know nothing about manufacturing, and that’s the best criteria for a resource person: Someone who knows nothing about what you do. They bring in a fresh perspective. Good people to bring in are educators. Bring in some psychologists. […]
Radical Selection: Listening to Ideas from Outside the Circle
“Radical Selection” is a crucial step in the Deliberate Diversity™ process. It is based on the idea that the broader our perspective is, the better our ideas become. When we put together a design team or an innovation team, it’s important to get as many different perspectives together as possible in order to produce breakthrough results. […]
Could Deliberate Diversity™ Have Prevented the Great Recession?
Look at the lineup at the Federal Reserve Bank in 2008: Ben Bernanke, Donald Kohn, Randall Kroszner, and a few others. What do these people all have in common? They’re all bankers and economists. They all see the world in essentially the same way. When financiers created dangerous housing bubbles in the years leading up […]