274: Laura Kriska—What If Co-Workers Could Learn To Embrace Their Differences Instead Of Shunning Them?

<p style="text-align: center; font-size: 24px;"><strong>Hear how to get diverse employees to value their differences</strong></p> <p>It was a great pleasure to interview Laura Kriska for our podcast, <a href= "../../../podcast?__hstc=107626077.2750df55890de85e2125dae4b37d7685.1620852546585.1625613327704.1625691948961.50&__hssc=107626077.1.1625691948961&__hsfp=3718144884" target="_blank" rel="noopener">On the Brink</a>. Laura is an internationally recognizedexpert in cross-cultural relations. She and I have a lot in common. As a <a href= "https://www.simonassociates.net/anthropologists/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">corporate anthropologist</a>, I too often work with organizations where the old culture and the new are in conflict, where Boomers and Millennials speak different dialects of English and have distinctly different habits, beliefs and ways of doing things. Add in the business environment around them, and today's companies have too little knowledge about how to “see, feel and think” in new ways and most importantly, how to use those differences to build better companies. Laura's wisdom is so needed right now — I know you will learn so much from her!<span style= "color: black;"><img class="mce-hs-more" style= "height: 20px !important;" src= "data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" data-mce-placeholder="" /></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 20px;"><span style= "color: black;">Watch and listen to our conversation here</span></p> <p><a href= "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYj9HsT41wQ&ab_channel=simonassociates" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img style= "width: 653px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; display: block;" src= "https://f.hubspotusercontent10.net/hubfs/398462/Laura%20K%20video.jpg" alt="Laura K video" width="653" /></a></p> <p style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 20px;">Some of the topics we discussed:</p> <ul> <li>While business leaders are all for diversity, inclusion and equity, actually doing those three things is harder than t