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David Livermore (born 20 May 1980) is an English retired footballer who is the assistant manager of Millwall F.C.. Livermore has featured for clubs such as Arsenal, Millwall, Leeds United, Hull City, Brighton & Hove Albion, Luton Town and Oldham Athletic. He also served as a player/manager at Histon F.C..

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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.

Impact, Numbers, Retrospect, Successful, Thinking

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.

Effectively, Giving, Ideas, Realize, Team

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

Attention, Culture, Differences, Innovation, Paying

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.

Play, Role, Skin Color, Two, Underrepresentation, Visible

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

Cities, Creativity, Natural, Tree, Trees

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

Basic, Culturally, Exercise, Intelligent, Self, Starts

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.

Define, Expectations, Goal, Team, Time

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.

Culturally, Diversity, Goal, Implement, Intelligent, Pain

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.

Build, Communicating, Important, Intelligent, Leader

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).

Act, Differences, Idea, Ideas, People

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

Best Way, Improve, Perspective, Taking, Way

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.

Decision, Gridlock, Help, Helping, Needs

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).

Creating, Ideas, Share, Team, Use

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

Jaded, Longer, People, Probably, Work, World

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.

Aligning, Expectations, Important, Part, Team, Users

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

Consistently, Important, Innovation, Make Or Break, Seen

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.

Approach, Focus, Technology, Time Zones

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.

Business, Influence, Innovation, Intelligent, Organization, Strategy

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.

Ability, Actually, Innovation, Needs, Understanding, Use

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

Diversity, Identifying, Problem, Problems, Team

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