The Multicultural Mind

PREFACE

Recent research has confirmed something that we have suspected for a long time—multicultural experience leads to greater creativity. People who have multiple cultural identities (multiculturals) are at the top of the list of people with significant multicultural experience. In this book I marry this new research with well-known findings from psychology and management to create a road map for understanding this growing segment of the workforce, the multicultural mind, and how organizations can leverage and model people with these unique skills to produce innovative organizations. The principles of innovation are not a secret, but the secret weapon in achieving innovation in your organization may be the multicultural mind.

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