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Building a diverse team and maximizing performance
From the course: Leadership Foundations
Building a diverse team and maximizing performance
- As the CEO of my global consulting firm, I am proud to lead a diverse team. I have a mix of work experiences, ethnicities, ages, sexual identities, personalities, cultures, and skills and I was deliberate about selecting my team and looking for what I didn't have. As a result, I have achieved sustained success for nearly a decade because I learned how to utilize the unique and diverse gifts and talents of my team. And with the workforce becoming more diverse every year, leaders must know how to assemble and maximize the performance of their team. There has been much research over the years proving that companies with more diversity on their leadership teams, executive teams, and on their boards of directors report being more innovative, profitable, and seeing higher returns on their investment. One of my go-to resources is McKinsey & Company. One of their recent studies that spanned 15 countries and more than a thousand…
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