Hiring a diverse workforce is not enough. People must be trained to work with difference, and the importance of diverse ideas and process must be cultivated in order for a company to spur creative thinking.
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Six Critical Traits Of A Fluent Leader
Becoming a fluent leader takes much more than just knowing the best way to hear from everyone on your team or reaching out to your direct report instead of waiting for her to come to you
Conventional wisdom would say that the outliers from the dominant culture — the multicultural workers, the more junior people, or perhaps the young, entry-level team members — should work to get their styles, values and communication in sync with their managers and feel empowered enough to close the power gap. However, conventional wisdom might not be right and may not always work.
In business, there is an old adage, “You get what you measure.” But the big question is, will you get what you want? Too many innovation-measurement systems are designed in a way that inadvertently creates undesirable behaviors. They measure the wrong things, resulting in poor results.
Collaborative Intelligence
Not everyone has a natural aptitude or appetite for collaborative problem solving. Though effective collaboration requires a skill that can be learned and improved, some people are naturally better at collaboration than others.
A convener of stature is someone with the stature to bring together a group of independent parties and have them work in an aligned way to create something of value