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Putting Our Differences to Work. The Fastest Way to Innovation, Leadership and High Performance.


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Table of Contents:
Foreword by Joel A. Barker Introduction: The Fastest Way Part 1: Taking Leadership to a New Level 1. Five Distinctive Qualities that Put Differences to Work 2. The Need for Change: The new business essentials 3. Putting the Five Distinctive Qualities to Work Part 2: Action Steps: Knowledge and Know-How to Guide the Way 4. Step 1: Assessment - Defining Current Realities 5. Step 2: Acceptance - Developing Support for Change 6. Step 3: Action - Moving Forward 7. Step 4: Accountability - Establishing Shared Ownership 8. Step 5: Achievement - Measuring Progress, Celebrating Success 9. Step 6: More Action - Keeping Momentum Alive! Part 3: Ever-Expanding Possibilities for Putting Our Differences to Work 10. Innovation at the Verge of Differences (Joel Barker and Debbe Kennedy’s mutualism experiment) 11. The Virtual Gathering Place Send-Off: A final word Resources, Studies and Tools

About the Author :
Debbe Kennedy is the founder and president of Leadership Solutions Companies, an award-winning women-owned enterprise specializing in custom leadership, organizational, and virtual-communication solutions and the Global Dialogue Center. She is known for her pioneering contributions in people-focused leadership-employee communications using Web 2.0 technologies and other social media. Formerly, she had a distinguished leadership career with IBM. She is the author of Breakthrough! The Problem-Solving Advantage- Everything You Need to Start a Solution Revolution.

Review :
“Debbe Kennedy teaches us how diversity accelerates innovation to everyone’s advantage. This is a win-win-win book in which you and your people win, your organization wins, and the world wins." —Joel A. Barker, from the foreword “Personal, reflective, insightful and inspirational. Full of great ideas and a very powerful story that shows how we need to redefine leadership and diversity in order to help make the world a better place. Needs to be widely read – urgently!” —Dr. Bruce Lloyd, Emeritus Professor of Strategic Management, London South Bank University "The dangers of ‘groupthink’ are painfully apparent across our world. That’s why diversity, broadly understood, is so essential to innovation and progress – as Debbe Kennedy reminds us in this pragmatic and wise guide for leaders."—Mike Wing, Vice President, Strategic Communications, IBM “Rarely has there been a more relevant, more needed guidebook for leaders of the future than Putting Our Differences to Work. Debbe Kennedy has illuminated diversity, innovation, and leadership in a way that will help leaders across the sectors to redefine the future in our times of massive change.” —Frances Hesselbein, Chairman and Founding President, Leader to Leader Institute, and former CEO, Girl Scouts of the USA "The power of Debbe Kennedy's storytelling helps us all see our own accomplishments in a new light while encouraging us to take our leadership to a new level. The six steps she offers provide a road map for leaders and organizations on how to effectively put differences to work." —Emily J. Duncan, former Vice President, Culture and Diversity, Hewlett-Packard “Leaders must find new sources of growth more than ever today. After questioning what leadership means while reading Putting Our Differences to Work, I found myself focused on one thing: I, the leader, must first harness our people’s rich and diverse experiences, cultures, and perspectives to attract growth.” —Lane A. Michel, Executive Vice President, Quaero Corporation


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781576754993
  • Publisher: Berrett-Koehler
  • Publisher Imprint: Berrett-Koehler
  • Height: 242 mm
  • No of Pages: 224
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 524 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1576754995
  • Publisher Date: 09 Jun 2008
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 24 mm
  • Width: 163 mm


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