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Navigating Workplace Conflict: A Deep Dive with Ralph Kilmann

Let's Grow Leaders

Navigating Workplace Conflict in a Changing World (03:51) Kilmann discusses the rising relevance of conflict management against the backdrop of global changes like diversity, deregulation, and political polarization. This instrument challenged existing notions by providing a more accurate reflection of how individuals engage in conflict.

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Design Thinking: A Guide to Creative Problem Solving for Everyone

Strategy Driven

Application of design thinking to help solve myriad problems that are not typically associated with design is illuminated in a new book through vignettes drawn from such diverse realms as politics and society, business, health and science, law, and writing. Design thinking can be a critical tool for addressing leadership challenges.

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Diversity Doesn’t Stick Without Inclusion

Harvard Business Review

Leaders have long recognized that a diverse workforce of women, people of color, and LGBT individuals confers a competitive edge in terms of selling products or services to diverse end users. Yet a stark gap persists between recognizing the leadership behaviors that unlock this capability and actually practicing them.

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How Women Drive Innovation and Growth

Harvard Business Review

Specifically, we find that companies fail to realize the full innovative potential of women in their midst because leadership either doesn''t know how to elicit their insights or lacks the perspective necessary to endorse their ideas. So Nambiar proposed that two down-at-the-heels branches in Kolkata and New Delhi undergo a complete overhaul.

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Creating a Culture Where Employees Speak Up

Harvard Business Review

Research we conducted at the Center for Talent Innovation reveals a remarkable correlation between inclusive leadership, innovative output, and market growth. Management endorsed her proposal to make over the New Delhi and Kolkata branches into all-women-staffed banks. Case studies we did for our report give weight to these findings.

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Egypt's Rebellion, U.S. Competitiveness, and National Service

Harvard Business Review

The students I addressed had been handpicked for a special leadership development program. Or perhaps a YouthBuild corps to finish the houses that were occupied but under permanent construction, with accompanying rubble, because it saved taxes for the owners to live in unfinished houses. cities plus London and Johannesburg.

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Yes, Corporations Are People

Harvard Business Review

For example, at RBC, our corporate art collection, The Human Touch , focuses on images of the human figure, in all its diversity, to remind us of that very fact — that we are all about people who serve other people.). And I would propose that this social purpose is best encapsulated as "stewardship."