Putting Our Differences to Work : Resources

Reader's Resources

The following resources and studies are provided to support your work and
expand your own learning and discovery about putting our differences to
work.

Putting Our Differences to Work DISCUSSION GUIDE [PDF]
A chapter-by-chapter guide for reading groups, team discussion, and classes using the book.

Putting Our Differences to Work Organizational Snapshot

Choice either the PDF or PowerPoint version. Each has instructions and is fully explained in Debbe Kennedy's book, Putting Our Differences to Work.

Global Dialogue Center

A virtual gathering place for people throughout the world with an inten-
tional focus on leadership, professional, and personal development. It is also
the home of Women in the Lead. Available here.

PODCASTS, VIDEOS AND EXHIBITS

Related Videos and Tools from Joel Barker

Joel Barker has an extensive library of videos and other useful tools for putting our differences to work. Here are a few that will support you in all the phases of change:

Innovation at the Verge 2009 Video Release - View Trailer
2009 video release - In this bold, new program, Innovation at the Verge, Barker teaches how to create your own future by finding your next innovation. Joel Barker highlights Putting Our Differences to Work in this film, as well as honoring Leadership Solutions as an innovator at the verge, the award-winning enterprise Debbe Kennedy founded in 1991. Joel Barker also created a separate video overview of Putting Our Differences to Work, describing it as a guidebook for Innovation at the Verge. See Barker's Video BOOK Overview
Wealth, Innovation and Diversity:
Putting Our Differences to Work in the 21st Century
Joel discusses the connection between diversity and innovation and between innovation and wealth. Supporting workshop by Debbe Kennedy
Power of Vision
The Power of Vision demonstrates that having a positive vision of the future is the most forceful motivator for change -- for success -- that companies, schools, communities, nations, and individuals possess.
Paradigm Pioneers
Paradigm Pioneers identifies the essential traits of these trailblazers and discusses how you can become one.
Leadershift: Five Lessons for Leaders in the 21st Century
The concept of leadership is changing. Leadershift explores these shifts and offers five concepts to improve the performance of any leader.
The New Business of Paradigms
Organizations need to innovate and change in order to survive. Joel’s best-selling training video, The New Business of Paradigms, explains how the rules we live by can limit our ability to innovate and be creative.

All are available through Star Thrower Distribution: (800) 242-3220.

Implications Wheel

A strategic tool for exploring the future and long-term implications of change. Available here.

Seeds of innovation Team and Organization assessment

This assessment, created by Elaine Dundon and Alex Pattakos, Ph.D., allows individuals and teams to identify where new ideas and processes are thriving and what’s standing in the way. Available through HRDQ and here.

Related Resources and Studies

The direct online links to related resources and studies are below. Each provides a unique perspective on changing workplaces, marketplaces, and communities and the opportunities we have to put our differences to work.

Habitat Jam Story - To complement the story that Debbe Kennedy told in Putting Our Differences to Work as an example that clearly proves the "fastest way" to innovation is through people, is also described in a commemorative visual learning exhibit at the Global Dialogue Center. Included is a documentary video produced by IBM and other resources.
“Diversity and Community in the Twenty-first Century: The 2006
Johan Skytte Prize Lecture,” by Robert D. Putnam, Nordic Political
Science Association, 2007
Global CEO Study: Expanding the Innovation Horizon, IBM, 2006
Global Innovation Outlook Reports, IBM Global Services
How to Use Social Media to Engage Employees, Global Survey by
Melcrum, 2007
The Future of the Internet II: Survey of Technology Thinkers and
Stakeholders, by Pew Internet & American Life Project, September
2006
Research on Managing Groups and Teams, volume 10, Affect and
Groups, by Elizabeth A. Mannix, Margaret A. Neale, and Cameron
P. Anderson. Available at Amazon.com.

Other weblogs:

	Women in the LEAD
	Greater IBM Connection (contributing author)