Quotes by David Livermore

David Livermore

Becoming a culturally intelligent innovators starts with something as basic as exercising self-control.

Exercise

Intelligent

Self

Clashing expectations are what most consistently derail any team, and especially a culturally diverse team. So if you take the time to “define” the goal carefully upfront, you’ve addressed one of the most difficult and important parts of the innovative process.

Expectations

Goal

Team

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!

Innovation

Intelligent

Missing

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.

Important

Intelligent

Leader

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.

Decision

Helping

Needs

Even an organization that doesn’t do much work internationally will benefit from a culturally intelligent strategy to innovation. Working across different generations, business units, regions, and functions are all factors that can also influence the innovation process.

Innovation

Intelligent

Organization

For me, the key question is what’s behind the dangerous idea. If it’s simply to stir things up and appear radical, I’m not interested. But if it’s done with a quest to learn, evolve, and improve the quality of life for people everywhere, I’m on board.

Dangerous Ideas

Keys

People

Generating diverse ideas requires being clear about the kind of input needed and creating multiple ways for diverse team members to share their ideas (e.g. use more than just a brainstorming session).

Creating

Ideas

Team

Given the increasing diversity among customers and employees, organizations that attend to cultural intelligence are more successful.

Diversity

Organization

Successful

I do think stories are one of the best tools for communicating across any number of cultures. But I also think there are wildly successful leaders who are introverted, disciplined, lead via spreadsheets and goals, and might not “appear” to be a great leader…but in retrospect, made a massive impact.

Impact

Successful

Thinking

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Best Way

Cities

Cliche

Country

Creating

Creativity

Culture

Dangerous Ideas

Daughter

Decision

Degrees

Differences

Diversity

Exercise

Expectations

Focus

Giving

Goal

Helping

Ideas

Impact

Important

India

Innovation

Intelligent

Jaded

Jobs

Keys

Leader

Light

Lying

Make Or Break

May

Mean

Missing

Needs

Opportunity

Organization

Other Cultures

Pain

People

Perspective

Play

Problem

School

Self

Skin Color

Successful

Tasks

Team

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Quotes by David Livermore

David Livermore

Becoming a culturally intelligent innovators starts with something as basic as exercising self-control.

Clashing expectations are what most consistently derail any team, and especially a culturally diverse team. So if you take the time to “define” the goal carefully upfront, you’ve addressed one of the most difficult and important parts of the innovative process.

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!

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.

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.

Even an organization that doesn’t do much work internationally will benefit from a culturally intelligent strategy to innovation. Working across different generations, business units, regions, and functions are all factors that can also influence the innovation process.

For me, the key question is what’s behind the dangerous idea. If it’s simply to stir things up and appear radical, I’m not interested. But if it’s done with a quest to learn, evolve, and improve the quality of life for people everywhere, I’m on board.

Generating diverse ideas requires being clear about the kind of input needed and creating multiple ways for diverse team members to share their ideas (e.g. use more than just a brainstorming session).

Given the increasing diversity among customers and employees, organizations that attend to cultural intelligence are more successful.

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