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In this wrap-up of the limited-run series, host John Palumbo is joined by SVP and General Manager at Keurig Dr. Pepper, Phil Drapeau and the two recap the season and discuss some of the things they learned, including the insights and strategies that surprised them most.
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In this Break Room, host John Palumbo tosses out a few simple approaches your company can take to foster thought diversity including what he calls âRide Alongs,â which brings different departments togetherâŠcreating a âGuest Office,â where outsiders can âco-workâ from your spaceâŠand even âReframing Resumes,â which will help you start hiring and finding more diverse talent.
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If youâre going to foster thought diversity and bringing different minds together at your organization (which you NEED to do), you need to be prepared for some debates and disagreements. Of course, these are things that make some companies and leaders uncomfortable, but theyâre necessary and you need to embrace them.
In this episode Harvard Business School Professor, Francesca Gino, discusses the ways companies can get comfortable with the âconflictâ thatâs essential in fostering thought diversity.
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In this Break Room, host John Palumbo discusses why itâs important for organizations to create casual or spontaneous collisions at their workplace, which is when employees run into one another and discuss ideas or projects or problems theyâre trying to solve. He even discusses ways your company can make collisions happen!
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When it comes to creating a thought diverse CafĂ© Culture dynamic, some co-working spaces seem to have it figured out - their members come from all different fields and backgrounds and the spaces themselves are designed to create spontaneous âcollisionsâ among members.
In this episode, founder of the co-working space Common Desk (which was recently acquired by WeWork), Nick Clark discusses co-working best-practices and strategies that any company can use to bring Café Culture to their organization.
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In this Break Room, host John Palumbo discusses how social media and its AI and algorithms are designed to feed us information that mirrors our own values and opinions and we end up in a sort of echo chamber, which is the opposite of what thought diversity is all about. So, what should organizations and leaders do?
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In this episode, author of the article, â3 Powerful Ways to Improve Diversity of Thought On Your Team,â Kate Gerasimova discusses strategies that every organization can use to bring a thought diverse CafĂ© Culture to their organization, including hiring outside the box and how to brainstorm differently.
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In this Break Room, host John Palumbo discusses one of the most important elements of thought diversity â DOT CONNECTING, which is making connections between everything we learn from the diverse perspectives around us and the problem weâre trying to solveâŠor skills weâre trying to buildâŠor objectives weâre trying to meet.
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In this episode, the head of marketing at Panasonic, Brian Rowley, discusses some of the benefits and results his organization has experienced by encouraging different teams to collaborate and come together. He even talks about how he has invited some unexpected outside perspectives to help his team build crucial soft skills.
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In this Break Room, host John Palumbo discusses a strategy that will help open your eyes to some of the more diverse and disparate people you might want to collaborate with or spend time with, to get some inspiration for a problem youâre trying to solve or an objective youâre trying to meet. Itâs called REFRAMING, and as youâll hear, itâs an approach you should start practicing now!
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One of the BIG questions a lot of companies want answered when it comes to bringing thought diversity to their organization is â HOW do we do it?
In this episode, thought diversity expert, Antonia Hock discusses some simple ways companies can begin fostering thought diversity and creating a Café Culture.
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The Break Room is where host, John Palumbo takes a âbreakâ from the more formal interview format to offer up some quick insights, thoughts, stories and strategies about thought diversity.
In this episode he talks about several applications for thought diversity, since so many people out there are always wondering, âWhen can (or should) my organization apply thought diversity?â
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If youâre looking to solve tough problems faster, research has proven that you should create a workplace where different and diverse perspectives can come together (like they do in coffee shops).
In this episode, co-author of the Harvard Business Review article, âTeams Solve Problems Faster When Theyâre More Cognitively Diverseâ joins us to talk about the many reasons why your company should begin fostering thought/cognitive diversity (or as we call it CafĂ© Culture) at yourworkplace.
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Have you ever wondered where and when the whole âthought diversityâ dynamic may have started?
Well, we have. In fact, we believe it all began back on the Ottoman Empire when coffeehouses were first introduced and, for the first time, all different classes were able to come together to exchange ideas and philosophies.
In this episode, author of the History.com article âHow coffee fueled revolutions â and revolutionary ideasâ Jessica Pearce Rotondi provides an entertaining âhistory lessonâ about the origin of coffee houses, which just might be the origin of thought diversity as well.
