Leadership in Action: Leveraging Diversity: It Takes a System

Searching for Structure

At the Center for Creative Leadership and in private consulting practices, we have worked with numerous leaders who make decisions about diversity awareness and management. We have found that the diversity measures taken by most organizations are at best only part of what they should be doing and at worst only damage control or stopgaps. To effectively leverage diversity, to ensure that all employees reach their full potential and make their maximum contributions to the organization and its mission, leaders need to take a structured approach. Bringing out the creative problem-solving energy and superior decision-making capabilities that diversity makes possible means aligning employee beliefs and cultures with those of ...