Highlights & Annotations
Experience the dissonance of cultures (15)
- “...even if you’re sitting in the same room, ostensibly agreeing...unless you understand the frame of reference, you’re probably missing a bunch of what’s going on.”
Re: stigmas of cultural differences (15)
- “...emerged stronger, more focused, and more determined to change the status quo that excluded her.”
Four essential skills for great leadership (23)
- Engage others in shared meaning
- Distinctive and compelling voice
- Sense of integrity – strong set of values
- Adaptive capacity – transcendence of adversity – most critical
Icebergs (33)
- Deeply held beliefs
- You have to keep checking yourself to examine if it is actually meaningful
Re: left hemisphere pattern recognition (46)
- Challenge your existing mindset – enlarge it and make it more complex
- Listen to different viewpoints
- “Make a consistent, ongoing commitment to immersing yourself in new systems and ways of thinking. It cannot be an occasional event, because the point is to expose yourself to a variety of cases and situations that cumulatively encode rich experience in your brain.”
Re: being receptive to novelty and innovation (51)
- Challenge convention, policy and practice
- Draw talent out of traditional silos and across boundaries
- Have a beginner’s mindset – step back from prior knowledge and existing conventions so you can start over and create new options
Re: reflecting when trying to make your next career move (93)
- Think through goals
- Create themes for next job