Bias Impacts: How Culture and Diversity Affect the Leadership Journey
Authors Kanthi Ford and Patrick Ricketts combine insights into our own diverse professional experiences with simple, concepts that are fundamental to leading inclusively today.
They ask reflective questions to enable you to consider some situations in a different light and suggest actions that may help shift behaviours or understand the perspectives of others.
“All cultures are different, but leadership is about understanding context, being clear about our personal biases and celebrating both similarity and difference. All aspects of cultural diversity intersect and there are multiple distinctions to be aware of.”
Performance Edge: Using a Brain-Based Leadership Approach to Transform Culture, Accelerate Performance, and Bring Out the Best in People
Scientific research during the last decade has shaped a new model of leadership that reliably accelerates organizational performance. This leadership model integrates what we have learned about the brain through advanced technology including MRI and brain wave scans examining how the brain responds to leadership. This knowledge offers extraordinary potential to transform organizations, address the accelerating pace of change and respond to increasing demands for organizational performance. What should executives and leaders do now to take on these challenges?
In this book, four amazing Thought Leaders share their insights as to how businesses, executives, and leaders can take on these challenges and stay ahead of the accelerating pace of change. They discuss why command and control worked before and why it doesn’t work now, and how to accelerate organizational performance and create a high-performance organizational culture.