‘Diverse expertise is great if the goal is innovative ‘out of the box’ ideas, but if you need timely, usable ideas, you may want a more focused, uniform team’
‘Diverse expertise is great if the goal is innovative ‘out of the box’ ideas, but if you need timely, usable ideas, you may want a more focused, uniform team’” posted in WORK journal, one of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development’s publications. Is this one of the reasons UK is so behind in innovation and productivity ?
Brain Scanning – to see if there is any activity?
They used brain-scanning techniques to measure how people actually responded during team collaboration and found that teams with different skills and perspectives do come up with more original ideas, but they also ‘face friction when trying to turn those ideas into practical implementable solutions’. Interesting – of course – but if you get people who all think the same way then you get all the wrong decisions made faster.. This is about diversity of thinking but equally applies to all the other ‘Diversities’.
Stupid ideas so much faster
We have seen what happens when the male pale and stale brigade( and also straight and Catholic) govern a country. Stupid ideas so much faster. The saving grace is that if everyone else continues down the Diversity route they will be out flanked at every level. And, as we already see, their international influence is all but destroyed in a matter of weeks, which has to be a good thing…
“Diverse teams generate fewer usable ideas” .say CIPD. If you continue doing what you always did then don’t be surprised if you always get the same results. HR are notoriously conservative and generally perceived as ‘only wishing to ensure that the current laws are upheld’ Diversity by tickbox .
McKinsey and Inclusion
On the other hand McKinsey et al demonstrate over and over again that Diverse teams are the best ways to increase sales and profits. This only works when diverse components are ‘Included’. Celebrating the differences and having an open mind helps . people having to code switch when they come to work – language and accent – doesn’t help and it means those who do are also having to focus on ‘behaving’ rather than contributing.
British Leaders, CIPD management , Innovation and Disruption
With British leaders , and no doubt those in the CIPD management, still being brainwashed that only those with the right accent and who went to the right school, and therefore are risk averse and unable to manage their emotions, as they are the only ones whose opinions count we will not see the progress that true disruption enables.
Professional Speakers Association (Spain) – PRODAYS – Madrid 28 June , Barcelona 29 March
The pictures below and above are from the Professional Speakers Association PRODAY in Barcelona I am pleased to be organising the next one in MADRID on Saturday June 28th. why not come and speak? Ask me
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