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David Livermore, born on May 20, 1980, is a renowned soccer player. Throughout his career, he has played for several clubs and has been admired by fans for his exceptional skills and on-field performance.

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“I never expected my graduate degrees to give me all the practical how-to's that can perhaps only be learned through the school of hard knocks.”

Giving Hard School Degrees Give Me Expected Practicals Graduates School Of Hard Knocks

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“Most people probably become more jaded the longer they work in the world of work.”

People World Jaded

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“There are people who are out to take advantage of others and some who are merely putting in their time. But most of the people I encounter in the work place are desperately trying to make a difference and what to be effective at their jobs.”

People Trying Jobs Differences Advantage Encounters Making A Difference Work Place

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“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.”

People Ifs Ideas Done Behinds Quality Dangerous Keys Radical Evolve Boards Quests Not Interested Quality Of Life Dangerous Ideas

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“May we all beware lest our innovative ideas appear very cliche before we even blink.”

May Ideas Innovative Cliche Blink Innovative Ideas

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“I'm obsessed with efficiency. And there are some tasks I need to just leave alone. And there are others - like an evening with one of my daughters or my wife - where I need to toss efficiency aside and simply be in the moment.”

Needs Moments Wife Daughter Tasks My Wife Evening Obsessed My Daughter Efficiency Toss

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“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.”

Thinking Made Stories Might Culture Goal Numbers Leader Successful Tools Impact Communicate Massive Great Leader Retrospect Introverted Successful Leaders

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“The very ability to empathize with a user requires that I have an understanding of that user's value and needs. This is what leads to many product fails. The individuals developing the innovation don't actually use it.”

Needs Use Values Individual Understanding Ability Failing Products Innovation Developing Users

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“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.”

Ifs Important Process Difficult Goal Team Expectations Diverse Consistently Innovative Diverse Teams

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“The most important part of aligning various expectations is to clearly describe the problem you are trying to solve and identify at least three different ways diverse users experience this problem. The more diverse your team, the better you'll be at doing this.”

Way Trying Important Different Problem Three Team Expectations Various Solve Different Ways Users Diverse User Experience

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“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).”

Way Kind Ideas Use Clear Team Share Needed Members Creating Diverse Multiple Session Input Brainstorming Team Member Diverse Teams

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“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.”

Needs Helping Process Decision Conflict Developing Decision Making Explicit Alleviate Decision Making Process Gridlock

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“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.”

Different Process Generations Influence Benefits Organization Function Intelligent Innovation Strategy Factors Regions Units Different Generations

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“The two most important forms of diversity when it comes to innovation are visible diversity (typically skin color, age, gender, etc.) and underrepresentation (anytime someone is less than 15% of the majority group). Other forms of diversity are also relevant but these are the ones that psychologically play the most role in how someone engages with the innovative process.”

Two Important Play Age Form Process Roles Groups Color Diversity Skins Innovation Majority Gender Visible Etc Relevant Innovative Skin Color

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

Given Successful Diversity Organization Customers Employee

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“When you start paying attention to diversity, you notice it (and notice its absence!). And based on the culture of your upbringing and the culture of your organization, you may or may not be primed to think consciously about innovation.”

Thinking May Culture Attention Diversity Organization Innovation Absence Pay Attention Upbringing

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“What really makes the difference in innovation is whether the corporate culture is paying attention to innovation.”

Culture Differences Attention Innovation Pay Attention Corporate Corporate Culture

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“There are highly innovative companies in the U.S., Germany, and India. And there are many stories of companies that failed to innovate in all those countries. This is good news because it means, regardless of your cultural background or where your company is based, it can become innovative.”

Mean Country Stories Company News India Backgrounds Germany Good News Innovative

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“Minimization is what happens when we take the "world is flat" idea too far...and act as if people everywhere are the same (and thereby minimizing the differences).”

People Ifs World Ideas Happens Differences Flats Minimizing World Is Flat

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“When you jump on a city bus or roam the streets off the major thoroughfares you'll quickly learn that we have as many differences as similarities. And therein lie the greatest opportunities for innovation - our different ways of viewing the world and coming up with solutions!”

World Way Different Lying Opportunity Differences Cities Streets Majors Solutions Innovation Different Ways Bus Similarity City Bus

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“Perspective taking is taking on the perspective of others. It's what we do anytime we buy a gift for someone else ("What would they like?"). So it means breaking the golden rule ("Treat others the way you want to be treated") and instead, acknowledges that others may not want what you want.”

Way Want May Mean Perspective Treats What You Want Treated Golden Acknowledge Golden Rule

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“The best way to improve perspective taking is to see users up close.”

Way Perspective Best Way Users

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“The distraction, particularly of technology, impedes the innovative process. And when you add to that the distraction of working with colleagues who are in different time zones and/or who have a different approach to urgency and distraction, the potential for losing focus is abundant.”

Different Process Technology Focus Approach Losing Add Zone Distraction Colleagues Innovative Urgency Different Times Different Approach Time Zones Losing Focus

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

Self Becoming Exercise Intelligent Self Control Innovators

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“The more diverse your team, the better you'll be at identifying what a diversity of users perceive as problems.”

Problem Team Diversity Perceive Users Diverse Identifying

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“The better you work to find the pain point and problem facing a diversity of users, the more clearly you can DEFINE the goal when you implement the process for culturally intelligent innovation.”

Problem Pain Process Goal Diversity Intelligent Innovation Users

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“Nature is good for all of us. When we're exposed to trees and other natural settings - even within the city, it fosters creativity.”

Natural Cities Creativity Tree Setting Settings Exposed

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“Natural light consistently fosters innovation, as does the avoidance of disturbances from noise and extreme temperatures.”

Doe Light Natural Innovation Extremes Noise Consistently Temperature Avoidance Disturbance Natural Light

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“Trust is consistently seen as a make or break component of innovation - particularly because the freedom to fail is an important part of innovation.”

Important Break Failing Innovation Consistently Components Make Or Break

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“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.”

Knows Important Leader Building Intelligent Assuming Communicate Clients Staff Building Trust

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“Many Westerners see follow-through and reliability as the most critical factor in how they calculate the trustworthiness of another individual. In some other cultures, who you know and how you're related to other individuals is the most important variable. And for others, it may be as much about your reputation and what others have said about you.”

Knows May Said Important Culture Individual Critical Reputation Factors Related Variables Other Cultures Trustworthiness Reliability Follow Through Westerners Who You Know

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“Smaller companies are often more homogenous. Don't simply increase your diversity because of the social pressure to do so. Instead, realize that hiring a more diverse team will give you a whole new repertoires of innovative ideas. And then develop a strategy for effectively using the diversity of your team.”

Giving Ideas Whole Social Realizing Company Team Diversity Increase Pressure Strategy Diverse Innovative Hiring Social Pressure Innovative Ideas Diverse Teams

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“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!”

Helping Might Missing Intelligent Innovation Impulse Help Me

Book:Driven by Difference: How Great Companies Fuel Innovation Through Diversity

Source: Driven by Difference: How Great Companies Fuel Innovation Through Diversity

About the Author

Born: May 20, 1980
Known for: Soccer player
Quotes: 33

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