David Livermore Quotes
Given the increasing diversity among customers and employees, organizations that attend to cultural intelligence are more successful.
Culturally intelligent innovation begins with changing our impulse from Why can't you see it like I do? to Help me see what I might be missing!
Developing an explicit decision-making process upfront for how you will make that decision will help alleviate conflict and gridlock when you actually need to decide.
Minimization is what happens when we take the "world is flat" idea too far...and act as if people everywhere are the same (and thereby minimizing the differences).
I never expected my graduate degrees to give me all the practical how-to's that can perhaps only be learned through the school of hard knocks.
Culturally intelligent leaders will not assume they know what will build trust with clients or staff. Instead, they'll discover what's most important for communicating and building trust.
Becoming a culturally intelligent innovators starts with something as basic as exercising self-control.
The more diverse your team, the better you'll be at identifying what a diversity of users perceive as problems.
Trust is consistently seen as a make or break component of innovation - particularly because the freedom to fail is an important part of innovation.
Nature is good for all of us. When we're exposed to trees and other natural settings - even within the city, it fosters creativity.
What really makes the difference in innovation is whether the corporate culture is paying attention to innovation.
The better you work to find the pain point and problem facing a diversity of users, the more clearly you can DEFINE the goal when you implement the process for culturally intelligent innovation.
Natural light consistently fosters innovation, as does the avoidance of disturbances from noise and extreme temperatures.
May we all beware lest our innovative ideas appear very cliche before we even blink.
