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10 Rules for Building a Great Business |
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Strategies for Creating a Culture for Innovation
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5
Strategies for Creating a Culture of Questioning
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The
GE Leadership Effectiveness Survey
(LES)
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Fully utilizes
diversity of team members (cultural, race, gender) to achieve business
success.
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Values and promotes full utilization of global
and
work force diversity.
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Demonstrates global awareness / sensitivity and
is comfortable building
diverse / global teams...
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Diversity as a Managerial Approach |
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Unleashing the Power of Integrated
Opposites
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developing innovative services and products for diverse customer
groups by sharing of diverse experiences and cultural insights of
workers
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solving problems creatively by looking at "the same landscape with
different eyes" and
cross-pollination of ideas
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achieving synergy
by leveraging the power of critical opposites
Solving Problems Created
by Diversity1
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treating people first and foremost as individuals
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acknowledging the special circumstances or particular context that
may lead to exclusion for some groups of people
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working to change that situation
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developing a workforce within which people are valued for the
contribution they make
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Six Thinking Hats:
A Proposal Analysis
Tool
By Edward de Bono5 |
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The proposal is read out and then everyone puts one
the following hats in turn:
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The White Hat is the
information
hat.
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The Red Hat represents
emotions.
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The Yellow Hat is the hat of
optimism.
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The Black Hat is the
pessimism
hat.
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The Green Hat is the hat of
growth and possibilities.
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The Blue Hat is the
process
hat...
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10 Roles of an
Inspirational Leader
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Build teams and promote and teamwork,
leverage diversity.
Teamwork
is essential for competing in today's global arena. Build a star
team, not a team of stars. Diversity of thought, perception,
background and experience enhance the creativity and innovation. A
team should not just be diverse; it has to make the most of it.
Involve everyone, facilitate
cross-pollination of ideas, build and empower
cross-functional teams if you wish to
harness the power of diversity. Challenge people from different
disciplines and
cultures to come up with something better together and achieve
creative breakthroughs...
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Steve Jobs' 12 Rules of Success
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Ask
for feedback. Ask for feedback, from people
with diverse backgrounds....
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Diversity Defined
Diversity is a specialized term describing a workplace that
includes:
Leveraging Opposite
Forces
You can inspire innovation
and find a strategic competitive
advantage in an organizational and
cultural context by seeking to
leverage, rather than diminish, opposite forces. People with different
cultural, educational, scientific, and business backgrounds will bring
different frames of reference to a problem and can spark an exciting and
dynamic cross-pollination of ideas.
"An important but widely
overlooked principle of business success is that integrating opposites, as
opposed to identifying them as inconsistencies and driving them out,
unleashes power," writes Mark Stevens.3
"This is true on both a personal level (the
balanced manager is more effective than his or her peer at one end of
the control spectrum) and on
organizational level as well... On an organization level we accept the
existence of hard and fast dichotomies because this binary perspective helps
to rationalize personal styles, viewpoints, and structures. Polarized
thinking is simplistic and misleading. In the business world, ideal
approaches are generally painted in gray as opposed to black and white."
To be successful in
today's complex, rapidly changing and highly competitive world, you must
embrace and manage critical opposites.

Entrepreneurial Success
Entrepreneurship is the art of finding
profitable solutions to problems. This requires diversified expertise.
According to
Peter McArthur,
"Every
successful enterprise requires three men – a dreamer, a businessman, and a
son-of-a-bitch."
The Power of Taking a
Different View
It was by taking a
different view of a traditional business that major innovations were
achieved. To find a better
creative
solution to the current practice, force yourself to
reframe the problem, to
break down its components and assemble them in a different way.

Inspirational Leadership: 10 Roles
Inspirational leaders create an
inspiring
culture within their organization. They supply a shared
vision
and inspire people to achieve more than they may ever have dreamed possible.
They are able to articulate a shared vision in
a way that inspires others to act. They leverage diversity.
People do what they have to do for a
manager, they do their best for an inspirational leader...
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Integrated Diversity
"Integrated diversity" is a term used by
Jack Welch, the legendary former CEO of General Electric, to define a
synergistic learning culture.
He described "integrated diversity" as the
elimination of boundaries between businesses and the transferring of
ideas from one place in the company to another. "Integrated diversity means
the drawing together of our thirteen different businesses by sharing ideas,
by finding multiple applications for technological advancements, and by
moving people across businesses to provide fresh perspectives and to develop
broad-based experience. Integrated diversity gives us a company that is
considerably greater than the sum of its parts."4
Integrated diversity only works when the elements of that
diversity, independent businesses, are strong in their own right. "GE
wouldn't succeed by propping up small businesses with larger ones or having
weaklings rely on winners. That was why Welch had always emphasized the
importance of creating strong, stand-alone businesses."2
Case in Point
Hewlett-Packard Way
To create an organization that could sustain its
competitive advantage regardless of marketplace
whims and what their competitors were building, HP founders based their
corporate culture on the integration
and reinforcement of critical opposites.
This became known as the
Hewlett-Packard Way. HP has achieved "what
appears to be the greatest dichotomy: creating an environment that
celebrates individualism, but at the same time one that is also wholly
supportive of teamwork. Although HP people are
taught to engage in cross-functional
teams, they are also rated on the performance of decentralized business
units and personal
achievement."3

The Three Rules of Work...
Managing Dynamic
Organizational Dichotomies...
Cross-functional Teams...
Managing Innovation by Cross-functional
Teams...
Managing Cultural Differences...
Recommendations to Top
Executives...
Virtual Teams: Best
Practices...
Harnessing Diversity for
Creative
Problem Solving...
Creativity in Groups...
Case in Point
General Electric (GE)
Case in Point
Joint Engineering Design by Ford and ABB...
Case in Point
Steelcase...
Case in Point
Cargill...
Case in Point
Progroup's Various Sources of Knowledge...
Case in Point
Tech
Oasis...
Case in Point
Integral Yoga...



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