Diversity and Leadership

During a class on leadership, one of my teachers said: “The world is becoming much more complex. The more knowledge we gather on what’s going on, the more able we are on creating clarity.” How does gathering information on complexity can make us understand things better? And better yet, how can we delude this complexity with our leadership skills?

Living today is complex because things have more meaning than before. As brands have evolved, it is not by price or quality that they compete. The real competition of any market, and any brand, is in its values. How they present to the world who they are. Such connect to the feelings of real people.

A brand that knows how to navigate through this complexity will strive in its market. But understanding that complexity is hard when you have to take into account every person’s back story. Understanding, for example, cultural traits, religion, social status, economic status, and so on.

That is one of the reasons why instead of understanding every story, we build a team based on inclusivity that serves as a “melting pot.” A brand can get a sense of what a middle point between cultures looks like instead of knowing the background story for every person. Individually we have grown different. In a design process, every voice matters, and joining those voices in the middle helps to understand things better without actually gathering complex information.

By having a varied team with different backgrounds, we assure many voices get heard. This form of inclusive leadership is just one of the many possible ways to gather complex information. Creating clarity in our endeavors, on our social skills and, on our brands.