Crowd wisdom about diversity - 3. Heritage and culture
So far in our Diversity Week we have covered the Definition of diversity and What is Inclusion. Today we turn to heritage and culture to discover how they affects diversity. Continue reading »
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Crowd wisdom about diversity - 2. Inclusion
In my I started a series on Crowd wisdom about diversity. The question on that post was: What is Diversity? Today's question is: What is Inclusion? Continue reading »
Crowd wisdom about diversity - 1. Definition
One of my favorite tweet chats is #leadfromwithin, moderated by Lolly Daskal @LollyDaskal. Every week between 800-1,000 people participate in the Tuesday chat, which ends up reaching about 2 million people. Amazing!
Last week the chat’s theme was Diversity. Lolly usually has 10 questions that organize the chat. There was so much good material running through the stream that I decided to share in several posts this week, the crowd wisdom about seven of the questions. Today I want to share some of the responses people gave to the first question. . . Continue reading »
4 Proven strategies for making diversity work.
Diversity is more than racial, gender, age, or ethnic make up of a group. Diversity is more a matter of divergence in thought. It has the potential to broaden perspectives and enhance creative decision making capacity. However, that potential is not realized as often as should be the case. Continue reading »
The power of diversity
In the current marketplace, a lack of diversity is not good for business. The most progressive companies will be successful because they recognize and harness the power of diversity to their work forces and in their products and services, thereby appealing to an increasingly diverse customer base. Continue reading »
Making change easier by defeating exclusion
In my last post we established that inclusion makes change easier and helps accelerate it. Many times leaders don’t include enough people in the planning and design of the process of change because they think it’s too messy and time consuming.
In reality, you will lose a lot more time, and risk failure if you don’t include enough people in the process. Today I’m sharing 7 specific behaviors you can easily learn and apply to defeat exclusion and make change easier. Continue reading »
Make the process of change enormously easier, with this simple idea
The second obstacle to change I mentioned in my April 24 post is Exclusion. Today we are going to see how the simple idea of inclusion changes everything.
I believe one of the reasons so many change efforts are failing is because we are trying to make 21th century changes with a 20th century mindset. We are in a different era of Globalization, where the Internet is a way of life. Continue reading »
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