Let’s say you have embraced inclusion as a core business practice and created an environment that embraces the full spectrum of diversity. How do you get the most from this powerful asset?
An article in Harvard Business Review entitled Putting Your Company’s Whole Brain to Work, available for purchase HERE, provides some guidelines for getting the most from a diverse team:
- Understand your own profile first so that you approach issues and problem solving objectively.
- Develop teams that represent different cognitive processes and perspectives.
- Create environments and guidelines that capture the full value of the team’s diversity.
- Participate in and lead the process with this full set of objectives in mind.
Great advice. And it just goes to show that a lot of what we’re doing today builds on skills developed in the past. This article is from 1997, but much of the advice was as relevant in our parents’ and grandparents’ business endeavors.
