Inclusive leadership doesn’t just happen. It takes intention and culture. Real inclusive leadership is more than just having a strategy. You need people to lead. Inclusive leadership practices are necessary to build cultures that last. Peter Drucker, said “Culture Eats Strategy For Breakfast.” Your organization’s culture determines whether it can sustain itself, retain employees, be a hub of innovation and…
I hated my first job. It was selling aluminum siding over the telephone. I didn’t even know what it was, how much aluminum siding actually cost. I didn’t know who owned the company or what happened once a live person showed up at the house of the perspective buyer. But I was good at it. Even with those factors,…
If you want to create and lead inclusive cultures that last, then as a leader, you have take leadership. Too many organizations are delegating culture development to the Human Resources Department and abdicating their leadership responsibility. When a new client, Soraya, (CEO of a mid-size company) told me that she wanted her organization known as a best place to work,…
A reporter asked me for three reasons that mergersa and acquisitions fail. Here are the reasons I gave, along with solutions. 1– Not seeing mergers and acquisitions as a diversity and inclusion issue between organizations. When people feel left out and/or that they have no control of a situation, they create “facts’ and information to fit the gaps. This…
Ten Ways To Foster Amazing Innovation Through Diversity Leadership In this business era of speed, competition and globalization, innovation rules all. You never know where the next great product, process or profit builder will originate. Good Diversity Management and Culturally Intelligent Leadership can make the difference between repeatedly hearing mediocre ideas from the same people, or mining the hidden…
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