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Putting Our Differences to Work is a must read for all professionals in the work place today. Debbe Kennedy offers invaluable insight in to the ever changing work environment, and emphasizes the importance of innovation to the success of an organization. This book presents fresh ideas with diction that flows very naturally. At its core, it truly is a motivational book; but it also presents a personal challenge to its reader and provides step-by-step action items that can be directly and immediately applied to your current profession, regardless of position or industry. For experienced professionals- how have you driven innovation in your company? How do you differentiate yourself from those that you lead? What defines you as a business professional? For new professionals entering the workforce for the first time- how do you define your goals? What defines you as a future leader? How will you prepare for a work place that is full of different ideas, cultures, and beliefs? As a young business professional myself, Putting Our Differences to Work has truly given me the ability to understand the inevitable relationships that exist between diversity, innovation, and leadership. Understand diversity. Drive innovation. Lead the way! I definitely recommend this book. The Fastest Way to Innovation, Leadership, and High Performance

• Shows how all types of differences, beyond those usually considered in diversity books, can accelerate the innovation needed to gain competitive advantage

• Defines five distinctive qualities leaders need to make differences a catalyst for success

• Lays out an easy-to-follow six-stage process for generating new levels of creativity, problem solving, leadership, and performance

Differences have traditionally been considered a potential source of tension and conflict in organizations. Debbe Kennedy proves that differences accelerate creativity, innovation, and energy‹but only if leaders are skilled in recognizing, engaging, and utilizing diverse talents and if organizations have the right processes and priorities in place.

In Putting Our Differences to Work, Kennedy shows that all the dimensions of difference‹such as thinking styles, perspectives, experiences, competencies, work habits, culture, and management style, as well as more traditional diversity considerations like gender, race, ethnicity, physical abilities, sexual orientation, and age‹can be sources of strength.

She describes five qualities leaders must cultivate, and encourage in others, in order for diversity to become an engine for success. And she offers a tested six-stage process for making the most of differences in the workforce, including first-person best-practice stories and strategic and tactical ideas to help you put each step into action. This book is a practical guide for everyone charged with leading diverse, often global teams and organizations. Leaders will learn how the power ofbringing differences together can create new products, new services, and new levels of contribution.

"Debbe teaches us how diversity accelerates innovation to everyone's advantage. This is a win/win/win book in which you and your people win, your organization wins, and the world wins."
--from the foreword by Joel Barker Putting our differences to work means creating an environment where people, naturally unique and different—diverse by nature and experience—can work more effectively in ways that drive new levels of creativity, innovation, problem solving, leadership, and performance in the marketplaces, workplaces, and communities of the world. Debbe Kennedy shows how to make all the dimensions of difference—such as thinking styles, perspectives, experiences, work habits, and management styles, as well as more traditional diversity considerations like gender, race, ethnicity, physical abilities, sexual orientation, and age—tremendous sources of strength. Kennedy draws on the latest research and a wealth of real-world examples to offer compelling evidence showing exactly how putting our differences to work accelerates innovation and contribution. She identifies five distinctive qualities of leadership that leaders must add to their portfolio of skills to make differences an engine of success. And she provides a detailed six-stage process for making the most of differences in the workforce, combining first-person best-practice stories and strategic with tactical ideas to help you put each step into action. Kennedy has written both a personal and a practical guide that changes the prevailing rules of how to think, behave, and operate as a leader, connecting four diverse elements of business and society that have traditionally been siloed: innovation, leadership, diversity, and inclusion. She and futurist Joel Barker also look at how new discoveries, including Web 2.0 technologies, can draw us closer together in previously unimagined ways. "Putting our differences to work means creating an environment where people, naturally unique and different, can work more effectively in ways that drive new levels of creativity, innovation, problem solving, leadership, and performance in the marketplaces, workplaces, and communities of the world. Debbe Kennedy shows how to make all the dimensions of difference - such as thinking styles, perspectives, experiences, work habits, and management styles, as well as more traditional diversity considerations like gender, race, ethnicity, physical abilities, sexual orientation, and age - tremendous sources of strength. Kennedy draws on the latest research and a wealth of real-world examples to offer compelling evidence showing exactly how putting our differences to work accelerates innovation and contribution. She identifies five distinctive qualities of leadership that leaders must add to their portfolio of skills to make differences an engine of success. And she provides a detailed six-stage process for making the most of differences in the workforce, combining first-person best-practice stories and strategic with tactical ideas to help you put each step into action."--Jacket Putting our differences to work means creating an environment where people, naturally unique and different, can work more effectively in ways that drive new levels of creativity, innovation, problem solving, leadership, and performance in the marketplaces, workplaces, and communities of the world. Debbe Kennedy shows how to make all the dimensions of difference tremendous sources of strength. Kennedy draws on the latest research and a wealth of real-world examples to offer compelling evidence showing exactly how putting our differences to work accelerates innovation and contribution. She identifies five distinctive qualities of leadership that leaders must add to their portfolio of skills to make differences an engine of success. And she provides a detailed six-stage process for making the most of differences in the workforce, combining first-person best-practice stories and strategic with tactical ideas to help you put each step into action. Putting Our Differences to Work was selected from "the very top business books" for review by Business Book Review in August, 2008. Foreword by Joel A. Barker Preface Introduction : the fastest way New business essentials Five distinctive qualities of leadership The basics for putting our differences to work Step 1 : assessment : defining current realities Step 2 : acceptance : developing support for change Step 3 : action : moving forward Step 4 : accountability : establishing shared ownership Step 5 : achievement : measuring progress, celebrating success Step 6 : more action : keeping momentum alive! Innovation at the verge of differences by Joel A. Barker Collaboration at the verge of differences The power of the virtual gathering place A send-off : a final word. Introduction : the fastest way The new business essentials Five distinctive qualities of leadership The basics for putting our differences to work Step 1: assessment : defining current realities Step 2: acceptance : developing support for change Step 3: action : moving forward Step 4: accountability : establishing shared ownership Step 5: achievement : measuring progress, celebrating success Step 6: more action : keeping momentum alive Innovation at the verge of differences / by Joel A. Barker Collaboration at the verge of differences The power of the virtual gathering place A send-off : a final word. Debbe Kennedy shows how to turn all kinds of differences into competitive advantages, from differences in race, gender, age, national origin, and sexual orientation to differences in experience, position, goals, competencies, working habits, and management style. She presents a tested, 6-step process for bringing about changes that create higher levels of innovation, energy, leadership, and employee engagement Kennedy insists that differences are a rich source of creativity, innovation, and energy--but only if an organization has the right processes and priorities in place. She lays out six action steps any organization can take to make the most of differences in the workforce Shows readers how to turn various kinds of differences into competitive advantages, from differences in race, gender, age, national origin and sexual orientation to differences in experience, position, goals, competencies, working habits and management style Putting our differences to work means creating an environment where people, naturally unique and different Do you ever feel like the whole world is looking to you for leadership -- even if it’s just your own world?