LEADERSHIP GROWTH THROUGH INCLUSION
Move fast together Leaders can only move quickly to fix the problems they face through truly inclusive teams Writing Frances Frei & Anne Morriss
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peed has gotten a bad name in business, much of it deserved. When Meta (née Facebook) printed “Move fast and break things” on cheerful company posters, it became the most visible convert of a widely held belief that we can either make progress or take care of people, one or the other. A certain amount of wreckage is the price we have to pay for inventing the future. We’ve spent much of the last decade helping companies clean up that wreckage. One of the main lessons from our work is that the trade-off at the heart of this worldview is false. The most effective leaders solve problems at an accelerated pace, while also taking responsibility for the success and well-being of their customers, employees, and shareholders. They move fast and fix things.
Inclusion makes us smarter, more innovative, and more profitable. No other organizational upgrade can compete with those returns
The change leader’s playbook Effective change leaders invest as much time and energy into building trust – and, yes, sometimes
rebuilding it – as they do into building speed. Speed unleashes your organization’s energy and reveals where you’re going. Trust convinces your stakeholders to come along for the ride. We have found that the more trust leaders earn, the faster they are able to change things in truly enduring ways. Trust is the cultural architecture on which an accelerated pace is built. Trust also makes it possible to build teams that are truly inclusive, an advantage that help leaders win. In all the flux and churn of the diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) debate, this is the part of the story that sometimes gets muddled. Among
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