by Keith Coats | Nov 15, 2016 | Archive, Diversity, Leadership, Organisational Development, Tuesday Tips
The Problem: Leading diversity (difference) is amongst the most complex and difficult of all challenges that leaders face. How can you lead difference in such a way that the benefits of diversity can flourish? The Solution: Difference takes many forms –...
by Keith Coats | May 27, 2016 | Archive, Diversity, Leadership, Organisational Development
‘Never Again’ is the inscription inscribed in five languages at the Dachau Concentration Camp memorial site a short distance outside Munich. A visit to such a place is not easy yet is entirely necessary. This is a place where man’s inhumanity and...
by Keith Coats | Feb 19, 2016 | Change, Diversity, Leadership
Anthropologist Kate Fox in her wonderful book, Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour, makes the following point: The principal effect of globalization, as far as I can tell, has been an increase in nationalism and tribalism, a proliferation of...
by Jude Foulston | Jan 5, 2016 | Diversity, Leadership
When we think of diversity and inclusion in our organizations there are two things that we normally think about and both are problems. The first is that we tend to think of diversity only in terms of women and culture, and of course there are many other types of...
by Keith Coats | Nov 27, 2015 | Archive, Change, Diversity, Future Trends, Leadership, Organisational Development
It has been said that we ‘don’t see the world as it is but rather we see the world as we are’. This is very true and it also happens to be the first step along the pathway towards emotional intelligence. It is the gateway to recognising that we each have lenses...