By Steve L. Robbins
Aggressive virtue in enterprise this present day is being outlined by means of the winners and losers within the warfare for expertise: hiring and maintaining the simplest and the brightest are what marketplace management is all approximately. What If? can provide a hugely inventive and leading edge new option to discover the problems that dominate latest multicultural, multiethnic place of work. To the 25 witty but inspiring tales during this assortment, Robbins has further suggestions and proposals for placing those key learnings into motion, and questions and an workout on the finish of every bankruptcy to assist readers additional discover each one subject. mixed, What If? bargains a robust lens into the human event.
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Hmmm,” Steve responded. ” Some type of language he had picked up from being around fish all day, I surmised. ” “Rainbows need highly oxygenated, cool water, ideally between and degrees. ” I asked, obviously disappointed. 5 W H AT I F ? “If you do a few things to get more oxygen in the water and put some big logs into the pond to give the trout some shade, they will have a good chance of surviving. ” He added that those changes also would benefit the bass and pan fish already in the pond—a point I didn’t consider seriously at the time.
If this sounds inviting to you and your organization, here are a few general suggestions to get you going. ) • Hold a series of brown bag lunches to discuss the stories. Schedule the series strategically, ideally following a diversity-related organizational event so that you can continue the momentum. • Emphasize continuous learning in your work team by using the book as common reading for each member of the team. In your regularly scheduled team meetings, spend fifteen to twenty minutes discussing one of the stories.
You will find that the stories present concepts beyond those of diversity and inclusion. They touch on xxix W H AT I F ? many of the building blocks of a productive workplace, including leadership and mentoring, creativity and innovation, and organizational culture and engagement. And they explore how to effectively engage a global world increasingly defined by encounters with new people, new ideas, and new things. This book will enhance your globality. If this sounds inviting to you and your organization, here are a few general suggestions to get you going.